Senior Beauty Specialist

Boots Opticians; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading beauty retailer as a Senior Beauty Specialist, where you'll inspire and lead a team of beauty advisors. Your role will include driving customer satisfaction and implementing strategic product launches while fostering a team atmosphere on the sales floor. This position offers a dynamic work environment with opportunities for professional growth and collaboration.

Benefits

Product Allowance

Generous Employee Discount

Ongoing training from beauty experts

Boots Retirement Savings Plan

Discretionary annual bonus

Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay

Flexible benefits scheme

24/7 Employee Assistance Programme

Qualifications

• Experience leading and motivating a retail team.
• Passion for premium cosmetics and customer engagement.
• Experience in a customer-facing role.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coach the Beauty Crew for optimal customer experience.
• Implement and execute new product launches.
• Collaborate closely with the Beauty Assistant Manager.

Skills

Leadership

Customer Service

Coaching

Job description

Job Description

ABOUT THE ROLE

As a Senior Beauty Specialist you will play a pivotal role in the coaching and developing of our Boots Beauty Crew as you will be responsible for the day to day leadership of the team on the shop floors.

Using your leadership experience and passion for the latest beauty trends you will not only lead and inspire the beauty crew, but you will also collaborate with the wider team within the Beauty Hall to create a fun and inviting environment for customers.

What you will be doing

• Working on the shop floor leading, inspiring and coaching the Beauty Crew to deliver a brilliant customer experience
• Successfully land new product and brand launches through store wide engagement
• Reporting to the Beauty Assistant manager, you will work closely with them to create and implement a store specific business to grow your beauty business.

WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO HAVE

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

• A passion for premium cosmetics, skincare brands and fragrance
• Experience leading and motivating a team to deliver targets
• Spent time working in a customer facing role delivering exceptional customer service

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 with premium beauty brands
• Worked within a large retail environment

OUR BENEFITS

• Product Allowance
• Generous Employee Discount on our own brands and partner businesses
• 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 including holiday buying, discounted gym membership, life assurance, activity passes and 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 . 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, it's 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.

Business Area

Retail

Function

Retail, Store Colleagues

Keywords

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Hours per week

37.5

Latitude,longitude 1

55.951690820,-3.201068876

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Airport

No

Hours per week

25 to 34 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

1 - Scotland

Area

104 - Edinburgh

Store

650 - EDINBURGH

Req Posted Date

07-Jul-2025

County

Edinburgh Lothian

Country

UK

Address 1

101-103 Princes Street

Address 2

Edinburgh

Address 3

Mid Lothian