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Assistant Store Manager (Retail)
Role summary
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The Assistant Store Manager supports the Store Manager in running an efficient, commercially successful Boots store. Requirements typically include retail or customer-service experience, leadership ability, strong organisation, and confidence using sales, stock, and performance information. The role involves supervising colleagues, delivering excellent customer service, supporting sales and commercial targets, maintaining health and safety standards, managing stock, and helping create an inclusive and engaging store environment. Boots expects candidates to be approachable, resilient, customer-focused, and comfortable working flexibly, including weekends and busy trading periods. Experience in pharmacy, beauty, healthcare, or a large retail environment may be advantageous, although strong management potential and a positive attitude are also important.
Can I work in the UK?
Never pay anyone for a visa or a job offer. A real employer pays the permit costs and never asks you for money.
How it works
How it works: Shop-floor, till and stock jobs are below degree level and on no list read, so they cannot be sponsored; only youth schemes remain.
Before you apply: Shop-floor jobs need no professional licence. Pharmacists do: they must register with the local regulator, and one qualified abroad often has to pass local exams first. Selling alcohol can need a short course and certificate, for example in Australia.
Watch for: Only degree-level head-office roles (finance, IT, data) can be sponsored. Youth schemes are the usual way in for Canadians, Australians and Indians under the age limits.
Official source: GOV.UK: Skilled Worker visa, your job. Checked November 2026.
What the job usually comes with in the UK
Usual for Retail & Consumer jobs in the UK, varies by employer. Checked November 2026.
| Housing | Not usually provided; you rent privately |
|---|---|
| Relocation | Shop jobs cannot be sponsored; for head-office hires the visa fee is yours unless the employer pays |
| Flights | Not standard; varies by employer and seniority |
| Pay and discount | Minimum GBP 12.71 an hour from age 21 (April 2026, by law); Boots gives seasonal staff a discount |
| Contract | Christmas seasonal jobs exist: Boots is recruiting about 6,000 seasonal workers (7 October 2026) |
| Leave | At least 28 days for a 5-day week (by law); employers may count bank holidays in it |
| Income tax | 0% to GBP 12,570, 20% to GBP 50,270, then 40%; plus 8% National Insurance (Scotland differs) |
Senior staff often get more than line staff, for example a single room or a yearly home flight. Ask the employer what the job includes before you accept.
Guidance, not legal advice. Rules change; your employer confirms the details for your case.
Working in the UK
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About Boots
Boots is one of the United Kingdom’s best-known health, beauty, and pharmacy retailers. Founded in Nottingham in 1849, the company operates a large network of stores as well as a substantial online business. Its product range includes medicines, pharmacy services, skincare, cosmetics, toiletries, wellness products, and optical services. Boots combines retail with healthcare, making its stores important destinations for everyday health advice and professional pharmacy support. The business employs thousands of people across stores, pharmacies, offices, distribution centres, and digital teams. As part of Walgreens Boots Alliance, Boots has access to international retail and healthcare expertise while retaining a strong British identity. The company promotes customer care, responsible retailing, inclusion, colleague development, and convenient digital services. Career opportunities are available in store management, pharmacy, beauty, supply chain, technology, commercial planning, and customer support.