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Dispensing Optician Manager - Fox Valley, Sheffield

Employer
Specsavers
Location
Sheffield
Salary
Competitive plus benefits
Closing date
3 Feb 2021

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Job Role
Dispensing Optician
Sector
Multiple Practice
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time

Job Title: Dispensing Optician Manager 

Location: Fox Valley Shopping Park, Sheffield 

Working hours: Full time to include weekend work

Experience level: To secure this role you will need to be a qualified Dispensing Optician, preferably with some management or leadership experience

 

The key to a glittering retail career?  Clear vision. 

 

Specsavers has been going from strength to strength, ever since the business started back in 1984. We strive for the highest clinical standards – and believe that the customer should be at the heart of everything we do. We also recognise that our people are critical to our past and future success – so we do everything we can to make sure they get the experience and career they’re looking for: from outstanding training and a personal development plan, to excellent benefits and unstinting support. The business has nearly 1,500 stores across 12 countries – and is still growing. We want you to be part of this outstanding success story.

 

Fox Valley Shopping Park:

Fox Valley is a unique town centre shopping destination in north Sheffield with direct access off the A616 Sheffield to Manchester Road.  With a great line up of stores, restaurants and coffee shops, including Home Bargains, Next, Costa and Aldi, as well as a free four hour car park with 600 spaces.

 

Situated approximately half way between Sheffield and Huddersfield, Fox Valley is a master planned redevelopment of a 28 acre former steelworks site, bringing a new town centre to North Sheffield. The £50million development, has been carefully designed to reflect the area’s rich industrial heritage as well as answering the need for a new retail and commercial heart in this growing catchment.  As well as new office and retail space, there is a new housing development bringing 118 new executive riverside homes to the area.

 

The Fox Valley Friday Market is located in the market quarter, located towards the back of the centre. The market runs every Friday from 10am till 3pm.There are typically 15-20 stalls, products include locally sources meat, fish, fruit & veg, speciality cheese and hand made gifts.

 

The Role:

As our Dispensing Optician Manager, your main task will be to help run the store from a retail perspective, focusing particularly on the quality of the dispensing service. Your efforts will help to ensure that the store runs successfully, while providing customers with an exceptional service. Much of your work will involve inspiring staff to perform at their best and meet the highest technical standards. 
 

You’ll be a qualified Dispensing Optician and a role model for more junior members of the team, living our values and leading by example, while fostering a positive team spirit. It’s therefore important that you’re good with people, an experienced team leader and aware of what makes a superb store. You’ll uphold standards and use your commercial acumen, professional knowledge and customer focus to ensure that your store goes above and beyond.

 

This role is also open to a Store Manager.

 

The Directors:

Every great team needs great leadership and at Fox Valley you’ll be led by Directors with fantastic success stories with Specsavers! Hitesh our Retail Partner, graduated in 2006 and has a wealth of Specsavers experience working his way up into management before completing ILM 3 and our Pathway program in 2018. Humma is our new Ophthalmic Director and graduated in 2011. She joined Specsavers in 2012 and has been with us ever since! She’s contributed to the success of our stores and as such has won multiple awards! She also completed ILM 3 and completed our Pathway program in 2018.

 

Here at Fox Valley you’ll be in the best hands to succeed in your career with Directors that have first hand knowledge of the progression paths you can follow!

 

If this opportunity sounds interesting, we’d love to hear from you. Contact Laura Field on 07956699444 or laura.field@specsavers.com

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