Contract: Permanent

Location: Nottingham

Recruitment Partner: Anastasia Walker

About the role

A brilliant opportunity for an experienced and creative Head of Benefits & Wellbeing to innovate and shape our future benefits, wellbeing and recognition agenda at Boots for over 50,000 colleagues. Permanent role, based in Nottingham.

At Boots we work hard to create brilliant experiences for our colleagues so that they can be at their best. We've got an ambitious agenda to innovate our benefits, wellbeing and recognition offer for colleagues and we're looking for an experienced leader to drive our agenda forwards and create something really special!

You will:

• Create and deliver an exciting and innovative strategy across benefits, recognition and wellbeing that improves the colleague experience and increases our key performance metrics (awareness, engagement, advocacy and take-up)

• Engage, lead and inspire our benefits, recognition and wellbeing team

• Drive value from our key supplier partnerships, ensuring they are aligned to our strategy and delivering great experiences and value

• Create a flexible proposition that responds to our different colleagues' needs, across our global locations.

• Continuously innovate, grounded in colleague listening and external research; creating business cases for change that demonstrate a positive return

What you'll need to have

• A proven expert in benefits, recognition, wellbeing and employee experience; with experience in large workforces

• A creative thinker at a strategic level with experience of building and delivering benefit, recognition and wellbeing propositions that positively influence our culture

• A great communicator, with storytelling abilities and strong stakeholder management and influencing skills

• A commercial thinker, focused on both the colleague experience and the business benefits – and adept with data and insights to drive this forwards.

• A great leader and team player with energy and enthusiasm to create and drive positive change

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 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.

We have a great range of benefits in addition to the above that offer flexibility to suit you - find out more at boots.jobs/rewards. Exclusions may apply, eligible roles only. 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, 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.