Assistant presso Boots UK

Role: Digital Merchandising Assistant

Contract: 12 M FTC

Shift pattern: Full Time

Location: Nottingham Support Office - 5 days int the Office

Closing date: 26th September

Recruitment Partner: Matthew Nelligan

About the role

Welcome to the Boots.com team – an exciting team within Boots UK which is at the heart of our growth plans as more customers look to us for online help, advice and shopping inspiration, as well as of course the best Boots products, prices and offers. As customers are changing, so are we: focusing on really understanding our customers' needs and making the most of our great products and services to optimise the online shopping experience and increase growth.

The Merchandising Assistant meaningfully contributes in the ecommerce team, responsible for moving boots.com from a housekeeping team to a data-led optimisation team, to allow our customers to find what they are looking for as quickly as possible.

Key responsibilities

• Optimising our merchandising levers such as taxonomy, internal search, product recommendations, customer reviews and social proofing. Measuring how successful each activity is.

• Supporting the ecommerce trading team and customer planning team to ensure best in class launches for brand pages, events, NPD etc.

• Contributing to wider department projects and campaigns, representing the team in cross functional meetings, owning outputs and actions, working to deadlines.

What you'll need to have

• Exemplary attention to detail

• Comfortable using data to drive insight and decision making

• Able to react quickly to new ways of working and to identify improvements to process

• Able to balance BAU tasks alongside project or campaign responsibilities

• Comfortable working and communicating cross functionally with multiple different teams and contacts

• Experience of working online with merchandising levers would be beneficial

• Knowledge of SEO and customer journey planning would be extremely helpful

IMPORTANT NOTE: This role requires regular working outside normal offices hours. This typically involves working from 5am one or two times a month, occasional weekend working particularly at peak times and occasional overnight working e.g. for major launches. In general you will be expected to be flexible with your working hours to meet business and customer needs.

Our benefits

• Boots Retirement Savings Plan

• Discretionary annual bonus

• Generous employee discounts

• Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay and gift card for anyone expecting or adopting a child

• Flexible benefits scheme including option to buy additional holiday, discounted gym membership, life assurance, activity passes and much more.

• Access to free, 24/7 counselling and support through TELUS Health, our Employee Assistance Programme.

We have a great range of benefits in addition to the above that offer flexibility to suit you - find out more at boots.jobs/rewards. Exclusions may apply, eligible roles only. Please note, any salary estimates given on third-party sites are not provided or endorsed by Boots and may not be accurate.

Why Boots

At Boots, we foster a working environment where consideration and inclusivity help everyone to be themselves and reach their full potential. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, passionate about embracing the diversity of our colleagues and providing a positive and inclusive working environment for all. As the heart of everything we do at Boots, with you, we change for the better.

What's next

If successfully select for interview, one of our Talent Team will be in touch to discuss next steps

Where a role is advertised as full-time, we are open to discussing part-time and job share options during the application process. If you require additional support as part of the application and interview process, we are happy to provide reasonable adjustments to help you to be at your best.

This role requires you to complete a Pre-employment check after receiving an offer. Depending on your location you will be asked to submit either a DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service), PVG (Protection of Vulnerable groups) or an Access NI Check.

Boots is a Ban the Box employer and will consider the suitability of applicants with criminal convictions on a case-by-case basis.