Beauty Specialist

We’ve re-invented the Beauty at Boots shopping experience to create a beauty retail playground where customers can get hands-on with products and receive personalised, advice on all our beauty and skincare brands from our Boots Beauty Specialists.

About the role

As a Boots Beauty Specialist, your role will be to provide impartial, tailored advice, and guide customers to select the right products for them across a range of premium brands in our Beauty Halls.

You will report to the Assistant manager or Store manager. You will also:

• Work amongst iconic brands including Fenty, Huda Beauty, MAC Cosmetics, Clinique and The Ordinary with many more exciting brands to come.
• Receive immersive training, get to experiment with the latest products and work with beauty experts to develop your skills further.
• Be part of a passionate and like-minded beauty team. Whilst you’ll still have targets to meet, your focus as a Beauty Specialist is to provide each individual customer with the right beauty and skincare products for them regardless of brand.

What you’ll need to have

We’re looking for Beauty Specialists who really understand beauty retail – creative individuals who’ve perfected their beauty skills and want to inspire others.

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

• Obsessed with the latest make-up trends
• Be empathetic and approachable
• Have a passion for making others feel amazing
• Be great at communicating you can assist customers in finding the right products for them, with honest and impartial advice
• Be up to date with beauty trends and be able to share knowledge with customers to enhance their shopping experience

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 these additional criteria.

• Experience working to targets
• Knowledge on the benefits of skincare routines

Our benefits

• Product allowance
• Generous employee discounts
• Ongoing training from our amazing brands and beauty experts
• Boots Retirement Savings Plan
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay and gift card for anyone expecting or adopting a child
• Flexible benefits scheme
• 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

If this sounds like the perfect role for you, we look forward to receiving your application. If your application is successful, you’ll be invited to complete an in-store assessment.

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.

The hourly rate for this role is £12.98 plus a product allowance for all team members and ongoing training from our amazing brands and beauty experts.