Boots to cut up to 350 management jobs

Pharmacy chain Boots plans to cut between 300 and 350 management roles in the UK as part of its three-year growth plan.

The plan, announced by the UK arm of Walgreens Boots Alliance in June 2015, has four main areas of focus: reinventing the customer offer, focused customer engagement, the simplification of operations, and investing in the company’s people and technology.

Boots said that to continue its simplification of support functions and stores, it has begun formal consultations with assistant store managers in larger stores across the country.

This involves a proposed reduction of up to 350 management roles to further consolidate store leadership, which will be achieved through a combination of natural attrition, redeployment, retraining and redundancy.

In addition, Boots said it will transfer around 400 staff from its customer helplines to contact centre management company Teleperformance, to run its customer support and central support contact centre.

These employees will continue to work on the Boots UK site in Nottingham and will retain their existing pay and benefits.

In June 2015, Boots announced that it was cutting around 700 jobs in the UK as part of its cost-cutting plans following the merger with US-based Walgreens.