Category Assistant

at  Boots

Summary
Job Reference: 246775BR
Job Reference: 2 4 6 7 7 5 B R
Nottingham Support Office
Fixed Term
37.5 Hours

Our Category team are at the heart of our business and play a critical role creating compelling reasons for customers to shop at Boots. They are a dynamic team, working to deliver a differentiated, competitive and customer led range in store.

The team are accountable for delivering the sales and profit budget using the key levers of range, price, promotions and distribution to delight our customers enabling them to ‘feel good’.

• Contribute to the delivery of customer promotions in store by setting up campaign offers such as 3 for 2, Half Price, on the Boots SAP system.
• Working with other teams such as the marketing and pricing team to ensure set ups are right first time.
• Confirm promotional funding with suppliers ensuring this is logged correctly on a tracker so it can be invoiced.
• Check invoice calculations and work with the Trading Process team to raise the correct amounts.
• Help the assistant category manager to review competitor pricing activity.
• Supporting the stores help desk and customer care team with all category queries, ranging from pricing, product descriptions or missing marketing material in store.
• Run sales reports and analyse for the team and suppliers, helping with Monday morning weekly reporting.
• Raise Purchase Orders for marketing and merchandising activity