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Assistant Category Manager
Boots
- 🇮🇪 Ireland
- On-site
- Manager or above
- 1 day ago
- SOAP
1 day ago
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Job Description
This is your chance to be part of something a bit different. Joining our Ireland Trading team, you’ll help drive the success of our brands and our business - and we think that's a really great opportunity. We’ve big plans to become even bigger and better and build on our health & beauty brand successes of No.7, Soltan, Botanics, Soap and Glory, and Boots Pharmaceuticals. There's a real opportunity to grow your career with us.
It’s about offering really wonderful products, so our customers feel really good, to keep them coming back. We’re passionate about offering fantastic quality at the best value prices in store.Together these elements will play a big part in making us No 1 for Customer Care.
What you’ll be doing day to day.
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Working alongside the Category Manager, you’ll be at the forefront of our development, sourcing and delivering consumer brands including our own wonderful brands. You’ll help decide what products reach our in-store shelves.
You’ll get to know our customer favourites, analysing data and providing great sourcing recommendations to support our global consumer, and retail brand strategies.
Your commercial awareness in this fast paced, and ever changing market will serve you well as you’ll be part of big projects with really high-profile brands.
Inspiring the Brand Category team, you’ll always put our customers at the heart of everything you do. You’ll look out for new opportunities and identify what we could be missing out on to set Boots apart from other retailers.
How will you do it?
You’ll love our brands and be an ambassador for them, as we work towards becoming the world's best pharmacy led health and beauty retailer.
Building really great relationships with our vendors and suppliers, you’ll help our customers get the best products at a really great price. Showing off your negotiation skills, you’ll help reduce our costs and seek out a global source for raw materials at the best possible price.
With your fantastic eye for detail you'll find great opportunities for our brands, working closely with the Brand Category
 team, focussing on our financial targets and monitoring our progress.
There's also a range of fantastic benefits and training for you, not to mention great in store discounts.
What you’ll need to have.
We’re looking for really great people, with a friendly personality. It’s all about working together as one great team – after all it’s our people that are at the heart of our business. It’s a fantastic opportunity to add to your own development, and a chance to learn more about us as a business. It could open up even more opportunities with us. You’ll have lots of great experience in either sourcing or buying, or supplier management, or negotiations skills from an FMCG or other business. We’re also interested in getting to know the real you – and that makes us all feel good.
Just to let you know, sometimes you’ll need travel within Ireland and internationally to the UK.
Our Benefits
- Generous Employee Discount
- Enhanced Leave Entitlements
- Company Pension
- Access to a range of learning and development resources and programmes
We have a great range of benefits in addition to the above that offer flexibility to suit you. Find out more atwww.boots.jobs/ireland. Exclusions may apply; eligible roles only.
Why Boots
We're always looking for people who care; people who go the extra mile to change things for the better. You'll be joining a company that is evolving and always looking to improve. 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. People are at the heart of Boots, and your support helps us go further, together.
To find out more about life and careers at Boots, click here:www.boots.jobs/ireland.
What's Next
A member of the Resourcing Team will be in touch regarding your application should you progress to interview. If you require additional support as part of the application or interview process, we are happy to provide reasonable adjustments to enable you to be at your best.
Please note: Any salary estimates given on third-party sites are not provided or endorsed by Boots Ireland and may not be accurate.
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- Level: Level 6
- Business area: Support Office
- Hours per week: 37.5
- Latitude,longitude 1: 53.349805,-6.260310
- Airport: No
- Company: Non Stores
- Division: 15 - Ireland
- Should this vacancy be excluded from being posted onto the Boots.jobs career site?: No
- Area: 900 - Dublin City
- Job Code: JAN ROI Assistant Buyer
- Store: Ireland Support Office
- Req Posted Date: 13-Oct-2026
Assistant Category Manager · Boots