Beauty Studio Advisor

Beauty Studio is a key growth engine for Target; blending strong beauty authority with a differentiated, service led experience that inspires discovery, confidence, and loyalty for every guest. Beauty at Target is evolving beyond a transactional shopping trip into a service-led destination where guests can explore trends, receive expert guidance, discover personalized solutions, and build routines that fit their needs, lifestyle, and budget. You support all aspects of this evolution with one purpose: helping all families discover the joy of everyday life.

As a Beauty Studio Advisor, you bring the Beauty Studio experience to life through personalized recommendations, product demonstrations, beauty expertise, and authentic guest connections. You inspire discovery and confidence by making beauty approachable, inclusive, and easy to shop by helping guests explore trends, find solutions tailored to their needs, and build routines that fit their lifestyle and budget. Through meaningful, service-led interactions, you create memorable experiences that drive guest loyalty, basket-building, and sales growth.

At Target, we believe in our team members having meaningful experiences that help them build and develop skills for a career. The role of a Beauty Studio Advisor can provide you with the skills and experiences of:

• Driving guest loyalty through exceptional service and inspiring experiences that build trust and repeat visits

• Providing personalized beauty products and regimen recommendations through guest engagement, product knowledge, sampling events and service-led selling

• Retail business fundamentals including department sales trends, inventory management, guest shopping patterns, pricing and promotions strategies

• Beauty product knowledge including beauty brands, seasonal trends, cosmetics and various skincare products and fragrance

• Leveraging digital tools and AI-powered resources to enhance the guest experience and personalize recommendations

As a Beauty Studio Advisor, no two days are ever the same, but a typical day will most likely include the following responsibilities:

• Create an Easy, Inspiring and Friendly guest experience by delivering on the following commitments:

• • Greet:

• • • 10ft: be friendly – smile, make eye contact, or wave

• • • 4ft: greet the guest, smile and initiate a warm, helpful interaction

• • Help guests find what they need and/or resolve issues to ensure a smooth, easy shopping experience

• • End every guest transaction with a sincere thank you

• • Actively support team efforts and assist peers in other areas while maintaining a positive and respectful attitude

• • Adjust to business and guest needs to deliver an easy and inspiring guest experience

• Support guests with genuine interaction to understand their needs and what level of service they prefer; ask open-ended questions to provide appropriate recommendations, product knowledge, and drive sales.

• Prioritize guest interaction and engagement while still completing tasks within the shop such as ensuring product is organized, in stock and signed correctly, pricing is accurate, cleaning and maintaining testers and sampling supplies, and completing changes to salesfloor merchandise displays.

• Encourage guests to explore Beauty with confidence by making sure the area is clean, testers are available, and surprising and delighting them with product samples.

• Participate in weekly training focused on newness, industry trends, product knowledge, and guest engagement techniques to enable continuous development and drive sales performance.

• Familiarize yourself with prestige product ingredients and benefits; leverage training resources, product packaging, in-store marketing, and store tools.

• Always demonstrate a culture of ethical conduct, safety and compliance.

• Work in a safe manner at all times; comply with all safety policies, best practices, and training; report hazards and correct where possible.

• All other duties based on business needs.
  

This may be the right job for you if:

• You enjoy interacting and helping others - including guests that shop our store and fellow team members you work with.

• You thrive in a fast-moving, highly active and physically demanding role, where teamwork, flexibility, and creative problem solving are key to success.

• You are open to working a flexible work schedule with varying hours, days or shifts (including nights, weekends, holidays and other peak shopping times).

The good news is that we have some amazing training that will help teach you everything you need to know to be a Beauty Studio Advisor. But there are a few skills you should have from the get-go:

• 12+ months previous beauty retail experience preferred, but not required

• Strong interest and knowledge of beauty and skincare products

• Welcoming and helpful attitude toward all guests and other team members

• Ability to communicate on multiple frequencies devices and operate handheld scanners, and other technology equipment as directed.

• Effective communication skills

• Work both independently and with a team

• Resolve guest questions quickly on the spot

• Capability to remain focused and composed in a fast-paced environment and accomplish multiple tasks within established timeframe

We are an awesome place to work and care about our teams, so we want to make sure we are clear on a few more basics that we expect:

• Accurately handle mobile POS operations as needed

• Climb up and down ladders

• Scan, handle and move merchandise efficiently and safely, including frequently lifting or moving merchandise up to 15 pounds and occasionally lifting or moving merchandise up to 44 pounds without additional assistance from others

• Flexible work schedule (e.g., nights, weekends and holidays); come to work when scheduled, work scheduled shifts and take required meal and rest breaks

• Capable of working in and exposure to varying temperatures, humidity, and other elements while performing certain job duties including but not limited to Drive-Up, carryout, etc.

• Ability to remain mobile for the duration of a scheduled shift (shift length may vary).