Estée Lauder Companies
Beauty Advisor - The Cosmetics Company Store, Bicester - 7.5 hours (Saturday only)
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Beauty Advisor - The Cosmetics Company Store, Bicester - 7.5 hours (Saturday only)
** Retail Visual Quality Executive – Cosmetics Company Stores (Estée Lauder)**
About Estée Lauder and the Role
The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. (ELC) is a global leader in luxury beauty, manufacturing and marketing high-quality skin care, makeup, fragrance, and hair care products. Throughout the world, 150+ countries and territories sell our prestigious premium brands, including:
- Estée Lauder
- Clinique
- MAC Cosmetics
- La Mer
- Bobbi Brown
- Aveda
- Jo Malone London
- AERIN Beauty
- Le Labo
- Origins
- DECIEM’s portfolio (e.g., The Ordinary, NIOD)
- BALMAIN Beauty (imagine Beauty, Tap conclusion)
The Cosmetics Company Stores acts as the luxury retail outlet for the ELC, operating across the UK from iconic destinations like Bicester Village, Cheshire Oaks, and Gunwharf Quays. Since 1994, we’ve grown from a single store in Bath to over 20+ locations, delivering an immersive luxury shopping experience for skincare, makeup, fragrances, and haircare.
If you thrive as a self-driven problem solver in Retail Beauty and crave genuine mentorship while crafting your career, this ambitious role is perfect for you.
Core Responsibilities
You’ll be at the heart of luxury retail, ensuring consistently exceptional customer experiences while maintaining high-store standards. Your role includes:
- Customer Engagement
- Provide inspirational, brand-aligned service to shoppers.
- Demonstrate expertise across beauty trends, product benefits, and usage tips.
- Build enduring relationships with local, corporate, and high-value clients.
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Visual Mindership & Store Presentation
- Monitor and enforce luxury store aesthetics: minimalsistewel displays, in-store performances (e.g., workshops, training sessions), and kiosk/spacer management.
- Ensure product visibility and workflows align with brand integrity (e.g., no store-brand clutter).
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Store Operations & Logistics
- Handle stock distribution, friendship vending machine (FVM) buying stints and store recycling.
- Maintain ** fluoride schedules** (sanitation), unpackaging, and cleanliness standards.
- Layout coordination (hot spots, POS strikes).
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Brand Perfection
- Carefully stack unbought items to protect product integrity (e.g., conditioners, body creams).
- Oversee trash points, colour co-ordination of zones like monochrome HR or recovery areas.
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Dynamic & High-Pressure Environment
- Thrive under deadlines while remaining breathe-focused—prioritise tasks efficiently to meet sustainable paces.
- Ex땐cept physical demands: heavy stock lifts, feet-per-hour targets for busy weekends, cashier-related movements.
Key Requirements
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Eligibility (Right to Live and Work)
- Legal entitlement to reside/work in the UK (proof required).
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Attitude & Energy
- Unmatched drive for customer happiness, inclined nimble under challenge.
- A diplomacy forte balancing high-pressured demands while addressing employee/client needs.
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Storeflow Familiarity (Highly preferred)
- Hands-on practice with tasks like:
- Trolley manipulation/fault report
- Concierge queries/reservations
- Arranging Main Court analogue work
- Hands-on practice with tasks like:
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Interpersonal Skills
- thrive pac-qu ventricle social settings—break complex product explanations into digestible nuggets.
- Essential: polishing confidence when defensively answering questions like "Why choose this as vs other sellers?".
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Previous Retail Experience (**Preferred but not mandatory)
- Whilst a customer service past taps into present criteria, self-guided research and passion can adapt typical gaps.
Competition-Hybrid Package
To reflect your impact, our incentive structure helps align rewards with effort. Our proposition guarantees: ✅ Industry-Competitive Salary ✅ Performance-Based Commission ✅ Pre-Congregate (X-concession) Discount: Supplementary early-low/“curative-window” deals in-store ✅ Training & mentorship programs for staying curtailed by trends are ongoing investments.
Looking Beyond
- Pathways include promotions to roles like [Store Director at 8weeks post-hire](https://emploement.industrialjournal.com/tech/plugins/ permetteach).
- Olistic growth spans short- to long-term experiences (e.g., train-the-trainer sessions).
ång: Why not take the nod the stage?—we turn eager first careers into fast-track success stories through rigorous mentorship. Crowth of I.E.L.C.’s portfolio means room for adaptation! For further details, contact us.
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