- Location
- Saint-Étienne Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes France
- Employment
- Full-Time
- Seniority
- Manager
- Department
- Retail & Boutique Operations
- Posted
- Oct 13, 2026
About Sephora
Sephora is a global prestige beauty leader, renowned for redefining the retail experience through creativity, inclusivity, and expert service. Founded in France and now part of LVMH, the company brings together an exceptional portfolio of beauty brands with a distinctive culture of discovery and innovation. As an employer, Sephora offers a dynamic, customer-centered environment where talent is encouraged to learn, experiment, and grow across retail, digital, merchandising, operations, and corporate functions. Its teams are united by a passion for beauty, entrepreneurship, and belonging, making Sephora a compelling workplace for professionals seeking impact within a fast-moving international brand.
The Sales Manager leads a Sephora department—fragrance, skincare, makeup, cash desk, or store operations—organizing the team’s activity and driving commercial and people development. The role is a permanent, full-time 35-hour-per-week position with fixed and attractive variable compensation, company health insurance, profit-sharing, incentive payments, and other company benefits.
Role & Responsibilities
- Leads a department (fragrance, skincare, makeup, cash desk, or store operations) and organizes and plans the team’s activities, activating growth levers aligned with the commercial and people development plans for the area.
- Motivates the sales advisor team around shared objectives to satisfy and delight customers.
- Develops knowledge of Sephora products and services and shares it with the team to meet commercial challenges for the department and the store.
Qualifications
- Demonstrated managerial skills and a passion for retail.
- Results-oriented, committed to collective success, responsive, proactive, demanding, and agile in a constantly changing environment.
- A successful first management experience in a customer-service-focused professional environment is essential.
Skills
Experience
A successful first management experience in a customer-service-focused professional environment.
Workplace
This position is based in Saint-Étienne, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
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Benefits
Company health insurance, profit-sharing, incentive payments, and other company benefits. The role also offers attractive variable compensation in addition to fixed pay.
Culture
Sephora fosters a dynamic, inclusive workplace where creativity, curiosity, and a passion for beauty are encouraged at every level. As an employer, it is distinguished by its focus on empowerment, continuous learning, and a collaborative retail culture that celebrates individuality and client-centric innovation.
About Cerulean
Cerulean is the definitive career portal for the global luxury industry. We match exceptional professionals with exclusive opportunities at the world's most prestigious brands. From haute couture and fine watchmaking to prestige beauty, hospitality, and boutique retail, Cerulean centralises luxury employment to help you find the career for which you were destined.
Frequently Asked Questions
The luxury industry is characterised by a diverse and nuanced nomenclature. Esteemed houses frequently employ proprietary terminology, and even within a single organisation like Sephora, titles may vary across global markets to reflect local conventions. To ensure absolute clarity, Cerulean assigns a standardised, industry-coherent canonical title to every listing. However, it is worth noting that this role is functionally synonymous with «Sales Supervisor», «Retail Sales Manager», «Sales Team Manager», «Department Sales Manager», and other variations. Our sophisticated search architecture anticipates these variations, ensuring that inquiries using related terms will seamlessly yield the exact roles you desire.