dx - Design Production Lead

Role: DX - Design Production Lead

Contract: 9M fixed-term

Shift pattern: Full Time

Location: Nottingham Support Office

Closing date: April 2025

Recruitment Partner: Matthew Nelligan

About the role

Join the Boots Digital team, based in Nottingham as a Digital Production Lead. Your role is crucial in leading the build team for the Condor project, ensuring the seamless execution of the website vision through collaboration with the DX Condor Development team and digital teams. You'll oversee the design process and guarantee timely delivery of high-quality pages and components. This exciting fixed-term contract offers a unique opportunity to manage CMS delivery and contribute to a significant digital transformation.

What you'll need to have

These are the essential skills or experience needed to succeed in this role.

• Lead the Build Team: manage a small team of Digital Producers, who will be accountable for building pages in the Content Management System (CMS). You will need to conduct regular team meetings to monitor process, provide guidance and facilitate knowledge sharing and peer reviews. Co-ordinate with the Digital Experience Manager, Copy and Design experts to ensure the build team are adhering to the BVI & Design Library guidance.
• CMS Development & Training: Work alongside the Digital Experience Manager and Design & Copy Leads as a CMS Champions to provide training and support the build team during implementation.
• Collaborative working: work with internal teams across the business to deliver on brief and on time.
• Build Process Optimisation: Partner with the workflow management team to understand your build team's capacity and ensure adherence to deadlines and milestones.
• Stakeholder management & approval: Oversee the approval and sign-off process for all pages and components within the CMS.

It would be great if you also have

These are desirable skills or experience and are not essential, so we would welcome applications from candidates that don't match this additional criteria.

• You may be educated to degree level, or have an apprenticeship or craft training in copy, editorial, design or digital/web production, backed up by relevant experience.
• Previous experience using a CMS would be desirable.
• Ability to interpret briefs, manage own time, prioritise work and meet deadlines.
• Excellent organisation and communication skills, plus ability to work at pace and to tight deadlines.
• A high level of production skill and attention to detail.

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.

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

If successful, you will receive a call from one of our recruitment partners.

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.

This role requires the successful candidate to complete a Pre-employment check after receiving an offer. Depending on your location you will be asked to submit either a DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service), PVG (Protection of Vulnerable groups) or an Access NI Check.

Boots is a Ban the Box employer and will consider the suitability of applicants with criminal convictions on a case-by-case basis.