Beauty Consultant

Walgreens

(Omaha, Nebraska)
Full Time Evenings Weekends
Job Posting Details
About Walgreens
Walgreens is the nation's largest drugstore chain with fiscal 2010 sales of $67 billion. The company operates 7,689 drugstores in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Each day, Walgreens provides nearly 6 million customers the most convenient, multi-channel access to consumer goods and services and trusted, cost-effective pharmacy, health and wellness services and advice in communities across America.
Summary
Maximizes sales and brand awareness by providing exceptional customer care to all customers in a friendly, efficient, and professional manner; gives impartial, personalized, expertise and advice regardless of brand and budget. Demonstrates a passion for beauty and provides inspirational beauty knowledge and know-how. Provides customers with solutions for their beauty needs, including mini-makeovers and skincare consultations, with an emphasis on the customers’ total look. Models and delivers a distinctive and delightful customer experience. Oversees and maintains overall beauty department standards.
Responsibilities
**Customer Experience** * Engages customers by greeting them and offering assistance with products and services. Resolves customer issues and answers questions to ensure a positive customer experience. * Models and shares customer care best practices by proactively offering assistance, asking questions to determine customers’ needs, and informing customers of options. * Greets, listens, and engages customers to identify their needs, making them aware of appropriate products and services, and providing warm transfers to other areas of the store when necessary. * Provides expertise in product demonstrations and consultations utilizing tools such as the Matchmade Device, Skin Hydrometer, and tablet. * Leads and delivers in-store events to promote brand awareness and loyalty of Owned Brands and total Beauty/Personal Care. * Builds relationships with customers through clienteling and eventing; provides authentic closure of customer interaction and builds and fosters relationships. * Engages with omni-channel solutions to enhance customer engagement/experience. * Locates products in other stores or online if unavailable in the store. **Operations** * Achieves or exceeds predetermined sales goals by assisting customers in the purchase of products and by modeling exceptional customer care. * Reviews scorecard on a regular basis to understand performance within store and district; partners with store leadership and BAE to create improvement goals. * Consistently focuses on link-selling and up-selling with customers by showing them sale items and complimentary offerings. * Uses testers and sampling to demonstrate product application and leverage items from beauty promotional programs. * Ensures testers are stocked and maintained in compliance with hygiene standards; maintains a clean and organized department. * Implements company loss prevention procedures to identify and minimize profit loss. * Processes sales for customers and/or employee purchases on cash register. * Participates in meetings and conference calls concerning programs and promotions, new items, brand launches, sales goals, and modeling exceptional customer care. * Has working knowledge of store systems and store equipment. * Ensures compliance with state and local laws regarding regulated products (e.g., alcoholic beverages and tobacco products). * Complies with all company policies and procedures; maintains respectful relationships with coworkers. * Completes special assignments as assigned. **Training & Personal Development** * Seeks self-development by monitoring own performance, setting high personal standards, maintaining awareness of beauty trends, learning from others, and improving job performance. * Maintains knowledge of competition, new product/brand launches, and overall industry trends. * Attends and participates in meetings, seminars, and other knowledge and business-driving opportunities; educates store team on new beauty updates, information, and learnings from training. * Attends assigned training and completes all learning modules. * Maintains professional appearance and image in compliance with company guidelines at all times. * Models and shares behavior with other Beauty Consultants; provides training and assistance to new Beauty Consultants. * Works collaboratively with the Beauty Area Expert to review goals and maintain product knowledge.
Ideal Candidate
**Basic Qualifications** * High School Diploma/GED and at least one year of experience working in a retail sales environment that required meeting a defined sales goal OR at least one year of experience proactively selling beauty products and providing customer care. * Experience in developing ways to accomplish goals with little or no supervision, depending on oneself to complete objectives and determining when escalation of issues is necessary. * Knowledge of products and brands in order to engage and meet the needs of the customer. * Experience establishing and maintaining relationships with individuals at all levels of the organization, in the business community and with vendors. * Experience building and maintaining relationships within a team. * Basic level PC/tablet skills. * Requires willingness to work flexible schedule including evenings, weekends, and holidays. * Must be fluent in reading, writing and speaking English. (Except in Puerto Rico) * Any required licensing required by state or local authorities to engage in selling of beauty products. **Preferred Qualifications** * Licensure in Cosmetology or as an Esthetician as granted by appropriate state licensing authority. * Experience demonstrating makeup application and providing makeovers to customers. * Experiencing selling Prestige brands. * Degree from Beauty School. * Experience with another retailer in the form of an Externship.

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