Employability and Talent Partner

Contract: 12 Mths FTC

Location: Nottingham

Closing date: 6th November

Recruitment Partner: Anastasia Walker

About the role

Building a strong future talent pipeline is vital to our success and the Employability and Talent team plays a key role in achieving this. We're a dedicated team developing innovative and engaging solutions that attract, inspire, and support individuals throughout their career journey empowering them to grow and thrive. Our work focuses on raising aspirations, building confidence, and providing meaningful opportunities to experience the world of work — helping people gain and sustain employment.

As an Employability and Talent Partner, you will play a key role in scoping, designing, and delivering insight-led employability and talent solutions that meet the evolving needs of our customers, colleagues, and the business.

Our team's creative and impactful approach supports a diverse range of individuals — from young people taking their first steps into employment, to those returning to work or seeking a career change. If you're motivated to make a real difference in people's lives, this role offers an exciting chance to challenge yourself, grow, and contribute to something truly meaningful. Reporting into Employability Manager, you will:

Key Responsibilities

• Work with key stakeholders from across the business to deliver impactful outreach programmes and community-focused initiatives — from work experience and emerging talent programmes to transformative projects with our charity partners, aligned with our ESG and People Strategy goals.

• Partner with subject matter experts (SMEs) and stakeholders, both internally and externally, to design and deliver innovative Employability and Talent programmes, creating engaging, data-driven/high-impact solutions across multiple platforms and formats.

• Inspire future talent by providing engaging and insightful careers advice and guidance.

• Promote and market our employability and talent initiatives both internally and externally to strengthen our employer brand and raise awareness of our work.

• Partner with our Assessment Provider to ensure we are utilising the most effective tools and solutions for our diverse range of candidates — identifying the right people for the right roles while delivering an exceptional candidate experience.

• Use data and insights to make informed decisions ensuring our activities and initiatives meet the evolving needs of both the business and our learners.

• Effectively plan and manage projects, taking accountability for deadlines and ensuring delivery to a high standard. Continuously seek opportunities for improvement, keeping all content fresh, relevant, and engaging.

• Contribute to wider projects and initiatives, supporting the broader objectives of the Employability and Talent team.

What you'll need to have

• Proactive and curious mindset, with the confidence to bring fresh ideas, try new approaches and get involved

• Excellent communication and relationship building skills, with an ability to collaborate effectively across teams and engage with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders

• Strong organisational and time management skills with experience of delivering high quality work

• A passion for learning and development and help others to grow

• An interest in using data and insights to inform decisions and drive continuous improvement

• A change mindset, able to challenge processes constructively and identify opportunities for greater efficiency

• A strong drive for personal growth and self-development

• An interest in employability, our brand and the positive impact we create

• Some travel may be required for this role

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.