Boots Careers – Marketing Assistant

Closing Date – 25th October

Sitting within the Beauty & Brand Partnerships team in the Loyalty Proposition Team, you’ll be responsible for nurturing customer relationships through developing, executing and evolving targeted marketing communications with our external brand partners. You’ll also help develop market leading CRM strategies aligned to brand and Loyalty objectives; delivering personalised content inspiring our customers to feel good.

About the opportunity:

Reporting to the Assistant Marketing Manager you will work cross functionally with internal and external teams, including wider marketing, trading teams and supplier management teams to deliver the best customer communications whilst driving real commercial results for Boots and our suppliers. You will also work with our Insights team and internal agencies to create and deliver best in class emails. It’s a busy role that requires a customer focused mind-set, strong communication skills, attention to detail and great organisation.

• Deliver and manage supplier co-branded Loyalty emails and direct mails meeting Boots, brand and customer objectives.
• Own the end to end co-brand process; including assessing campaign suitability, integration points, agency and budget management and identification of new opportunities.
• Ability to interpret customer and business needs and judge creative to see that it meets these objectives.
• Work closely with the data team to ensure effective targeting and continuous improvements in the use of our data.
• Produce clear, concise and insightful briefs to ensure clear direction.
• Drive KPI performance including channel engagement and incremental sales – being ambitious for brand performance with a test and learn attitude.
• Track results and manage team reporting.

About you:

• Excellent communicator with the ability to build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• A creative individual with a customer-first mind set.
• Working in marketing and preferably 121 and/or digital environment with experience in Email and Direct Mail and familiar with emerging CRM technologies.
• Passionate about Boots and our customers and keen interest in beauty and skincare.
• Proactive in finding solutions not problems.

Benefits:

We have a great range of benefits that go beyond salary and offer flexibility to suit you:

• Boots Pension Scheme
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Generous staff discount (Boots, Boot Opticians and Boots Hearing Care)
• £100 gift card for colleagues expecting/adopting a baby
• Access to corporate discounts, including retail, cinema, holidays etc (UK only)
• Discretionary annual bonus scheme
• Access to our Employee Assistance Programme
• Flexible benefits scheme (via salary sacrifice) including financial wellbeing support, gym membership, dental cover, life assurance, restaurant discount cards, activity passes, holiday buying and much more (exclusions may apply, eligible roles only)
• Onsite staff shop, opticians, gym, coffee shops, cafeteria, dry cleaning service and excellent travel links
• All rewards and benefits are subject to change and eligibility.

Why Boots

Our mission is to help everyone to feel good. This starts internally – with every colleague and every team. In our stores and pharmacies, our warehouses and our Support Office, we work together, putting our customers first and our colleagues at the heart of everything we do. We aim to attract, develop and retain the best people, with a huge range of opportunities for you to continue to grow with us… just bring your passion and commitment and we’ll do the rest.

Diversity, equity and inclusion is at the centre of everything we do in our business. 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.

We offer a variety of flexible working patterns to support our colleagues to achieve a good work life balance, just speak to our Recruitment team to find out more.

What’s next

If your application is successful, our in-house recruitment team will be in touch to arrange an interview and to answer any initial questions you have. If you have not been successful on this occasion you will be notified by email.

If you have any questions about this vacancy, please contact [email protected]