Year In Industry Graduate

Year In Industry Graduate

Application closing date: 19th April 2026
Assessment centre: May 2026
Start date: August 2026
Location: Nottingham, Support Office
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Length: 12 months
Recruitment Partner: Anastasia Walker
About the role
Our 12 months programme will help you to develop skills, knowledge and provides all the stretch and challenge needed to give you a real insight into a career within Buying. The programme will include functional specific training to ensure you are set up for success.
Our Category buying team are at the heart of our business and help create compelling reasons for customers to shop at Boots. They are a dynamic team, working to deliver a unique and customer led range in stores across 1000s of the best Health and Beauty brands. The team are accountable for delivering the sales and profit budget using the levers of range, price, promotions and distribution to delight our customers to help them to feel good
Our Year in Industry scheme starts with a 4-week in-store placement, to give you valuable first-hand insight into our customers and the day-to-day operations of our retail environment. Following this, you will spend 11 months embedded into a core category buying team, within our Nottingham support office, across one of our 3 business units: Beauty, Healthcare and General Merchandise.
The scheme will support you gain valuable insight into Category Management, where you will play a key role supporting the Category Buyer to implement agreed category plans. You will contribute to broader projects and gain experience collaborating with multiple internal teams and external suppliers to land key category initiatives, including promotional plans, in-store brand activations and pricing updates.
Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to the delivery of customer promotions in store by setting up campaign offers such as 3 for 2, Half Price, on the Boots PMR system.
• Support with setting up lines and supplier vendors, for new products to be launched, within range review windows.
• Share product ideas, trends and insights with the buying team to ensure we have the best range at Boots.

• Support internal teams such as the marketing and pricing team to ensure we land things right first time for our store colleagues.

• Confirm promotional funding with suppliers and raise associated invoices

• Support the wider category team to review market pricing and promotional activity, ensuring our offering remains competitive

• Run and analyse weekly sales reports for the team, identifying key performance trends.
• Support with our month end process, forecasting promotional retro funding
• On track to achieve a minimum of a 2:1 degree as part of a course that allows for a placement programme year.

What you'll need to have (our must-haves)

• On track to achieve a minimum of a 2:1 degree as part of a course that allows for a placement programme year.

• A strong desire to problem-solve and adapt in fast-paced, changing environment
• Demonstrates excellent organisational and time management skills

• Confidently challenges processes and data to drive efficiencies

• An ability to work well as part of a team, and to build effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders

• Shows a proactive drive for self-development and continuous growth
• Has a genuine passion for our products, brand, and what we do

Rewards designed for you

• 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.

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A bit about us
At Boots, we're proud to be an equal opportunity employer, creating a place where everyone feels welcome, supported and free to be themselves. We believe that when our people feel valued and included, they thrive, so we're committed to creating a brilliant Boots for our people so they can make a difference for our customers and colleagues every time.
What's next
If you apply, our team will be in touch to let you know the outcome of your application or to arrange 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.
Boots is a Ban the Box employer and will consider the suitability of applicants with criminal convictions on a case-by-case basis.

We hope to hear from you soon.
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