Boots Beauty Specialist

Boots Opticians; York; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Boots is seeking a Beauty Specialist to join their team in York, providing tailored advice and support to customers interested in beauty products. This role involves working with renowned brands and requires a passion for beauty retail, along with strong communication skills. A flexible working schedule with a focus on customer satisfaction is essential.

Benefits

Product allowance

Generous employee discounts

Ongoing training

Boots Retirement Savings Plan

Discretionary annual bonus

Enhanced leave pay for parents

Flexible benefits scheme

Access to free counselling and support

Qualifications

• Passionate about beauty retail and make-up trends.
• Ability to provide honest, impartial advice to customers.
• Experience working to targets is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Provide tailored advice to customers on beauty products.
• Work with iconic brands and receive immersive training.
• Meet specific sales targets while maintaining customer focus.

Skills

Creativity

Communication

Empathy

Knowledge of beauty trends

Job description

Job Description

The hourly rate for this role is £12.98 (up to £14.36 across selected locations within London) plus a product allowance for all team members and ongoing training from our amazing brands and beauty experts.

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

Information about the role

We are now recruiting Boots Beauty Specialists for our York, Coney Street store.

We are looking for candidates to join us from June onwards and who can be flexible to meet our customers needs.

Your basic hours will be 22.5 hours per week, and your days of work will be across Monday to Sunday with full weekend availability between the hours of 8:30am and 6pm.

The exact shift patterns will be discussed at interview stage.

Business Area

Retail

Function

Store Colleagues

Keywords

Beauty, Skincare, Cosmetics, Beauty Advisor, Sales, Retail, Counter Sales, Beauty Consultant, Makeup Artist, Make-up Artist, MUA, Makeup, Beauty Specialist, Blogger, Vlogger, Influencer

Hours per week

22.5

Latitude,longitude 1

53.958974886,-1.084214804

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Weekdays and Weekends

Airport

No

Hours per week

16 to 24 hours per week

Company

UK Stores

Division

16 - United Kingdom

Should this vacancy be excluded from being posted onto the Boots.jobs career site?

No

Region

3 - North and NI

Area

121 - York and East Yorkshire

Store

2004 - YORK CONEY STREET

Req Posted Date

16-Jun-2025

County

North Yorkshire

Country

UK

Address 1

43 Coney Street

Address 2

York

Address 3

North Yorkshire