Team Beauty Lead - Full Time

Belk; Garner (AK); On-site; USD 21,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Monthly bonus eligibility

Job summary

Belk in Alaska is seeking a Team Beauty Lead to drive personal and department results in an hourly role with monthly bonus eligibility. You will build genuine relationships with clients and teams, share enthusiasm for beauty trends, and execute promotions and events across multiple brands.

You will lead a team to deliver exceptional customer service, drive sales, and manage onboarding, inventory, and omnichannel processes in a fast-paced retail environment.

Qualifications

• 1+ years of retail experience and a dedication to customer service excellence.
• Ability to work flexible schedule including nights, weekends, and holidays.
• Must lift 40 lbs and be comfortable with makeup application and skincare services.
• Associates must maintain required licenses and certifications as required by applicable boards.

Responsibilities

• Drive store objectives and achieve key metrics.
• Create memorable store experiences through relationships with teams, vendors, customers and community.
• Lead team in customer service, sales, events, and promotions to advance beauty business.
• Build product knowledge and trends to engage customers with expertise.
• Support onboarding, learning, and regular team meetings to review goals.
• Ensure associates are informed about inventory; enable omnichannel experiences.
• Merchandise, replenish, clean, and maintain beauty standards daily.
• Coordinate schedules with leaders for events and traffic plans.

Skills

Customer service

Leadership

Team building

Communication

Adaptability

Retail experience

Tech proficiency

Job description

The Team Beauty Lead drives personal and department-wide results, demonstrating a passion for building personalized client relationships and sharing a genuine enthusiasm for cosmetic, beauty, and fragrance trends. This role utilizes engaging selling behaviors and strategies to enhance customer experience, while executing promotions, special events, and customer outreach initiatives across multiple beauty brands. The Team Beauty Lead possesses a competitive drive and entrepreneurial confidence to excel in a fast-paced commission environment. This is an hourly position, with monthly bonus eligibility.

What you will do

• Demonstrate a high level of ownership, accountability, and initiative in achieving store objectives and driving the accomplishment of personal and store key metrics.
• Create memorable store experiences through building genuine team, vendor, customer, and community relationships.
• Lead team in providing excellent customer service, driving sales, achieving goals, and executing successful promotional and special events to advance beauty business. Foster a positive store culture by sharing team successes, celebrating associate achievements, and modeling behaviors that strengthen performance and enhance customer service.
• Build personal and team product knowledge, suggestive selling behaviors, artistry skills, and expertise in the latest industry tips and beauty trends to create exciting customer engagement. Drive repeat client interactions as a knowledgeable and trusted resource.
• Enhance team’s selling skills by assisting with onboarding, initiating teaching opportunities, and supporting associate continued learning. Connect with Beauty Associates through team meetings and one-on-one touch bases to review goals and performance results.
• Ensure associates are well-informed and confident in speaking to available inventory and assortment. Leverage clienteling tools and technology to provide a personalized and seamless omnichannel experience. Support store fulfillment in designated areas by accurately and efficiently executing omni processes.
• Support team with merchandising product, replenishment, recovery, and cleanliness to maintain visual merchandising and beauty hygiene standards daily. Align presentations with vendor and company directives.
• Partner with store leaders to ensure team schedules align with business needs, traffic plans, and event strategies to maximize associate and department productivity.
• Demonstrate adaptability and respond to changing circumstances, adjusting tactics and shifting focus based on evolving business needs.
• Lead shortage control and inventory accuracy in designated areas by executing price changes, product transfers, and processing damaged items timely. Champion team knowledge of inventory management, asset protection procedures, and safety guidelines.

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to use data, guidance, and judgement to support timely and effective decisions that contribute to team and business success.
• Skills and experience to perform in the role and a commitment to continuously learn.
• Ability to take ownership of assigned tasks and contribute to store success by teaching, partnering, and encouraging others.
• Self-directed and able to work with minimal supervision in a deadline-driven environment.
• Communicate with excellence.
• Comfortable with technology, including smart phones, tablet computers and Windows-based operating systems.
• 1+ years of retail experience and a dedication to customer service excellence.
• Available to work a flexible schedule based on business needs, including nights, weekends, and holidays.
• Must regularly move around all store areas and be accessible to customers.
• Must bend, reach, stretch for product as well as lift, carry, and move at least 40 lbs.
• Comfortable with and enjoy assisting customers with makeup application and skincare services.
• Associates must maintain all required professional licenses and certifications, including any state-specific demonstrator or cosmetology licenses, as required by applicable state and local regulatory boards.

The job posting highlights the most relevant / essential responsibilities and requirements of the role. It is not all-inclusive. There may be additional duties, responsibilities, and qualifications for this job.