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19 Aug 2022
AS Watson Group, the retailer in charge of successful UK brands such as Savers and Superdrug, has pledged to create 200,000 jobs for young people.
The Group says the jobs bonanza will create thousands of jobs each year until at least 2030, with vacancies to be created at locations across the companies’ enterprises worldwide.
Just some of the new jobs on offer at the health and beauty retail specialist include analytics, customer service jobs, digital development, ecommerce, finance vacancies, marketing roles and positions within sustainability functions.
The vacancies are to be filled across AS Watson Group’ retail outlets, distribution facilities and head offices.
The company also runs an apprenticeship scheme for young people with the Savers Apprenticeship Scheme being up and running for over a decade and helping over 4,500 apprentices to gain a Retailer Apprenticeship qualification in the United Kingdom.
Commenting on the huge recruitment drive worldwide, AS Watson Group’s Europe people director Joanne Mackie, said:
“Young people are an important source of talents and creativity. By developing their skills, we can make our business stronger and fitter for the future. We are not only offering job opportunities, we’re also providing training and coaching to give young people the skills they need to work in the new world of O+O retail.”
“We plan to provide 5 million training hours specifically for youth in our global workforce to embrace the future. We look forward to 200,000 talented young people joining us between now and 2030 to help fuel the sustainable growth engine for AS Watson,” added Ms Mackie.
You can find out much more about working for the retail group in the United Kingdom by checking out our company profiles for Savers and Superdrug.
You can also learn even more about this line of work by taking a look at our guide to retail jobs for students and other young people.
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