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Assistant Manager
Role summary
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The Assistant Manager supports the Store Manager in running an efficient, customer-focused Boots store. Requirements typically include retail or supervisory experience, strong communication skills, confidence handling sales targets, and the ability to coach and motivate colleagues. The role involves managing daily operations, supporting stock and merchandising standards, maintaining excellent customer service, following health and safety procedures, and helping deliver commercial results. Candidates are expected to be organised, approachable, commercially aware, and comfortable working flexible hours, including weekends and busy trading periods. Experience in pharmacy, beauty, healthcare, or a similar customer-facing environment may be beneficial, depending on the store.
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.
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About Boots
Boots is one of the United Kingdom’s best-known health and beauty retailers, with a large network of stores, pharmacies, healthcare services, and digital shopping channels. The company sells prescription and over-the-counter medicines, beauty products, skincare, toiletries, and wellness items. Boots serves millions of customers and combines retail expertise with accessible healthcare support through pharmacists and trained colleagues. As part of Walgreens Boots Alliance, it operates within an international healthcare and retail group, while maintaining a strong presence in communities across the UK. Employees can find opportunities in store management, pharmacy, beauty, customer service, supply chain, technology, and corporate functions. Boots places emphasis on customer care, inclusion, professional development, responsible retailing, and helping people feel healthier and more confident.