Contract: 12-month FTC
Closing date: 26/08/2024
Recruitment Partner: Anastasia Walker
About the role
This role will be working as part of the broader Healthcare Development team, a customer-focused team that works to create a pipeline of future growth initiatives for the Healthcare Business Unit. Bringing our commercial experience, we anticipate the future needs of our patients & customers through being close to the latest innovations, macro trends, markets and competitors.
This role will develop and deliver new strategic category opportunities for Health, Wellness and Pharmacy, working at pace to identify, scope and build new revenue driving opportunities. The post-holder will work for the Head of Development and have one direct report.
A driving force of innovation, the post-holder will bring new ideas for development, prioritising those with the highest potential value and developing them in a way that allows for optimum profitability and scalability. This will include working closely with the commercial teams across the business, and our suppliers to understand trends and new opportunities
The post-holder will bring an ability to excite and engage cross-functionally on new ideas to enable testing and learning at pace, whilst also building robust business cases that create new sustainable initiatives to drive incremental revenue generation for Boots.
What you'll be working on:
- Delivering highly commercial future strategies alongside the category experts that bring together the best of Boots health for customers today and in the future – which may include opportunities such as Longevity, Caregiving and Womens Health
- Influencing the business to support trials that allow us to test and learn at pace
- Integrating into the suppliers category development teams to understand new opportunities from our biggest partners and how best to execute them
- Collating insights to provide trend analysis for Health, Wellness and Pharmacy
- Supporting in delivery of breadth of Healthcare Development opportunities
What you'll need to have
- Commercial experience
- Interest in healthcare market insights and trends
- Good stakeholder management
- Excellent communication skills
- Strategic thinker with experience of landing growth driving initiatives
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 holiday buying, discounted gym membership, life assurance, activity passes and 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 rewards. 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, it's with you, we change for the better.
What's next
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.
Boots is a Ban the Box employer and will consider the suitability of applicants with criminal convictions on a case-by-case basis.