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As a Store Manager, you'll lead a team that delivers exceptional care, expertise and service, making a meaningful difference to customers, patients and colleagues every day.\nWorking alongside a diverse team of colleagues and clinical professionals, you'll create a culture where people feel valued, supported and inspired to perform at their best. You'll take ownership of your store's performance, ensuring customers receive a \"best on the high street\" experience at every stage of their journey.\nNo two days are the same. One day you could be coaching colleagues, reviewing performance and planning for future growth, while the next you're working alongside your team to support customers, driving operational excellence and identifying opportunities to improve patient care and business results\nWhat You'll Be Doing\nAs a Store Manager, you'll lead your store through visible leadership, creating a culture where colleagues are empowered to deliver exceptional customer and patient care while achieving strong business performance.\nYou will:\nLead, coach and inspire your team to deliver exceptional customer, patient and commercial outcomes.\nCreate a positive, high-performing culture where colleagues feel supported, engaged and empowered to succeed.\nChampion exceptional customer and patient experiences, ensuring consistently high standards of service and clinical care.\nDevelop the capability of your team through coaching, performance management and ongoing development.\nDrive commercial performance through effective leadership, resource planning and a strong understanding of business performance metrics.\nUse data and insights to identify opportunities and make informed decisions that improve customer experience and business results.\nMaintain outstanding operational standards, ensuring your store is safe, compliant and consistently delivers a great experience for customers and colleagues.\nPlan and manage clinics to meet customer demand and maximise capacity across your store.\nBuild strong relationships with local healthcare partners, Boots Hearingcare, NHS teams and colleagues across the wider business\nLead through change with confidence, helping your team embrace new opportunities and ways of working.\nTake ownership of your store's P&L, delivering sustainable business performance while maintaining exceptional standards of care. \nWhat You'll Need to Have\nExperience leading and managing a team within a customer-focused retail, healthcare or service environment.\nProven ability to inspire, coach and develop colleagues to deliver exceptional results.\nExperience driving performance while delivering high standards of customer service.\nStrong commercial awareness and an understanding of how to achieve business objectives.\nExperience managing operational performance in a fast-paced environment.\nExcellent communication and relationship-building skills.\nA passion for developing people and creating high-performing teams\nIt Would Be Great If You Also Have\nExperience within an optical environment.\nExperience working within a healthcare or clinical setting.\nExperience managing budgets, P&L and commercial performance.\nExperience developing future leaders and supporting colleague career development.\nConfidence using data and insights to drive decision-making and business performance. \nWhere Your Brilliance Can Take You\nAt Boots Opticians, your career can be as ambitious as you are.\nAs a Store Manager, you'll gain valuable experience leading a customer-focused healthcare retail business, developing people, driving commercial performance and delivering exceptional care for customers and patients.\nThis role can provide opportunities to progress into Flagship Store Manager or Multi-Site Store Manager roles, giving you broader leadership experience and opening pathways into future regional leadership opportunities. Based on your skills, experience and career aspirations, we'll support you in finding the right path for you.\nAlongside hands-on experience, you'll have access to industry-leading leadership development, commercial training and optical learning opportunities, including our renowned Step into Optics programme, helping you continue to grow your skills and career.\nWhether your ambition is to lead a larger store, manage multiple locations or explore opportunities across the wider Boots business, we'll give you the support, development and opportunities to help you get there.\nRewards Designed for You\nBoots Retirement Savings Plan (up to 12% company contribution\nPerformance-based quarterly bonus\n70% discount on glasses and exclusive Boots UK savings for you and a family member\nEnhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay\n33 days holiday including bank holidays, increasing with length of service (pro-rata)\nFlexible benefits scheme, including discounted gym membership, life assurance, activity passes and more\nThere’s lots more in our benefits and discounts, MyBoots, there to give you that little lift in your everyday. To find out more, click here\nExclusions may apply; eligible roles only. Please note that any salary estimates provided on third-party sites are not endorsed by Boots Opticians and may not be accurate.\nA Bit About Us\nAt Boots Opticians, we help everyone see what's possible, from our customers to our colleagues. We're a proud equal opportunity employer, and the diversity of our colleagues is so important to us as we create a positive and inclusive workplace for everyone who steps through the door. With a supportive team and trusted brand behind you, join us and be brilliant with Boots.\nWhat's Next?\nIf you apply, our team will be in touch to let you know the outcome of your application or to arrange next steps. Where a role is advertised as full-time, we are open to discussing part-time and job share options. If you require additional support as part of the application and interview process, we are happy to provide reasonable adjustments to help you be at your best.\nWe hope to hear from you soon.\nBe brilliant with Boots.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6618,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":true,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Gym membership","Retirement plans","Stock options"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Optometry & Optical Stores"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-11T04:09:35Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":4,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.127,"p_room":0.35,"age_days":27,"expected_fill_days":7,"reasons":["conf:2","stale_co","win:tail","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-12T06:55:09Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/boots-store-manager-opticians-2","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/boots-store-manager-opticians-2.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-12T16:18:19Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"assistant_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":3627,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-13T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":1757026},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=1757026"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fboots-store-manager-opticians-2"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fboots-store-manager-opticians-2"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fboots-store-manager-opticians-2"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/boots-store-manager-opticians-2\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fboots-store-manager-opticians-2"}]}