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You’ll be part of an award-winning team that helps customers See What’s Possible™, working on activity that connects eye health, fashion brands and customer-focused campaigns.\nThis is a brilliant opportunity if you’re early in your marketing career and want hands-on experience across the marketing mix. You’ll work closely with the Marketing & Planning Manager, Paid Media Specialist, Trading Team, agencies, suppliers, PR, social and store teams to help keep campaigns moving, understand what worked, and bring learnings into future activity.\nKey responsibilities\nCoordinate agreed partnership marketing plans with the Trading Team, wider Marketing Team, agencies and suppliers, keeping activity on track against agreed timescales.\nSupport the delivery of partnership marketing activity that helps maximise return on investment for suppliers and benefits the Boots Opticians business.\nHelp create post-campaign analysis reports, building a clear view of learnings, insights and opportunities for future activity.\nSupport the Marketing & Planning Manager and Paid Media Specialist with the briefing, creative development, set-up, sign-off and delivery of ATL campaigns.\nWork with PR, organic social and store teams to support the delivery of the influencer gifting plan.\nSupport the commissioning, briefing and analysis of customer and brand insights to help inform future marketing strategy.\nProduce weekly marketing reporting, bringing together information accurately and on time.\nRaise and receipt purchase orders, helping the team manage campaign and supplier administration smoothly.\nPlan and prioritise your workload proactively, adjusting to business needs and deadlines in a busy team environment.\nWhat you'll need to have (our must-haves)\nA passion for marketing and a genuine willingness to learn.\nStrong relationship-building skills, with the confidence to work cross-functionally with different teams, agencies and suppliers.\nThe ability to work at pace, adjust to changing priorities and meet deadlines.\nA motivated, proactive approach with a can-do attitude and customer-first mindset.\nGood attention to detail and a strong focus on order, quality and accuracy.\nStrong organisational skills, with the ability to juggle multiple tasks and priorities.\nAnalytical thinking skills, with the ability to assess information, identify patterns and draw meaningful insights.\nComfort working on site at the Nottingham Support Office.\nIt would be great if you also have\nExperience in a marketing, campaign coordination, agency or brand support role.\nExperience working in a retail, consumer brand or head office environment.\nAn understanding of the Opticians sector, eye health or store-based customer journeys.\nExperience supporting reporting, purchase orders, supplier coordination or post-campaign analysis.\nWhere your brilliance can take you\nThis role gives you broad exposure to paid media, partnership marketing, ATL campaigns, influencer activity, reporting and customer insight within one of the UK’s best-known brands. You’ll learn from experienced marketers, build confidence working with internal teams and external partners, and develop the organisation, analysis and campaign delivery skills that can help you grow into wider marketing, planning, brand or channel roles at Boots.\nRewards designed for you\nBoots Retirement Savings Plan\nDiscretionary annual bonus\nGenerous employee discounts\nEnhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay and gift card for anyone expecting or adopting a child\nFlexible benefits scheme including option to buy additional holiday, discounted gym membership, life assurance, activity passes and much more.\nAccess to free, 24/7 counselling and support through Health Hero's, our Employee Assistance Programme.\nThere’s lots more in our benefits and discounts, MyBoosts - there to give you that little lift in your everyday. Find out more at http://boots.jobs/rewards. Exclusions may apply; eligible roles only. Please note that any salary estimates provided on third-party sites are not endorsed by Boots and may not be accurate.\nA bit about us\nAt 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.\nWhat’s next?\nIf 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. If you require additional support as part of the application and interview process, we are happy to provide reasonable adjustments to help you be at your best.\nBoots is a Ban the Box employer and will consider the suitability of applicants with criminal convictions on a case-by-case basis.\nWe hope to hear from you soon.\nBe brilliant with Boots.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5372,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Gym membership","Retirement plans","Stock options"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Cosmetics & Makeup","Optometry & Optical Stores","Pharmacies"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-29T01:33:07Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":62,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.619,"p_room":1,"age_days":2,"expected_fill_days":9,"reasons":["conf:0","stale_co","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-31T05:58:55Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/boots-marketing-assistant-2","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/boots-marketing-assistant-2.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-31T21:31:15Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":33706,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-01T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1757026},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1757026"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fboots-marketing-assistant-2"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fboots-marketing-assistant-2"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fboots-marketing-assistant-2"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/boots-marketing-assistant-2\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fboots-marketing-assistant-2"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3433136}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"boots.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3433136},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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