Assistant Store Manager
- Employer
- Vision Express
- Location
- Witney
- Salary
- Competitive
- Closing date
- 11 Dec 2024
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- Job Role
- Optical Management
- Sector
- Distribution
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Details
You’ll assist with administrative tasks such as stock ordering and management, cash handling and reporting. You’ll play a key role in creating a positive and productive work environment, ensuring the store meets the business objectives. All our colleagues play a key part in our mission of helping our customers to ‘See More and Be More’ by providing tailored and effective eyecare and eyewear solutions, to help customers maximise their visual potential and enhance their lifestyle.
Although the hours of this role are advertised, if this sounds like the role for you, we'd love to hear about your ideal working week. Whether this is hours to fit around the school run or you prefer a compressed week - we are open to discussing flexible options with you further.Who is the perfect candidate?
- Show strong leadership and management skills to be able to support your colleagues in store
- Great communication and rapport building to translate professional terminology into language understanding to patients
- Exceptional attention to detail in maintaining accurate customer records, prescriptions, and requirements to provide them with the best service and product recommendations
- Teamwork with colleagues across the whole store team, including our Eye Care Professionals, Optical Assistants and Management
- The ability to work under pressure and handle challenging situations in a fast-paced retail environment
- Confidence, passion, drive and enthusiasm
- Monitor and analyse sales performance data to identify areas for improvement
- Training and coaching sessions with your colleagues in store, to ensure everybody is working to the best of their ability and towards our mission to help customers ‘See More and Be More’.
- Sales and performance-based bonus
- Targeted incentives
- Competitive pension scheme
- Private Medical Cover for you
- Life Assurance - 4 x your basic annual salary
- Free eyewear annually with eligibility from day one of joining us!
- Opportunities to get involved in the OneSight EssilorLuxottica Foundation
- Discounts throughout the year for your friends and family
- Employee Assistance Program offering confidential support and advice on everything from financial support and everything in-between
- 33 days annual leave - increasing with your length of service, plus the opportunity to buy or sell holiday
- Flexible health related benefits, such as Health Cash plan, Additional Life Cover, Critical Illness cover and Dental Plan
- Opportunities to join a company wide community with peer-to-peer knowledge sharing and collaborating through our internal channels
- Flexible lifestyle benefits, such as Gymflex, Dining Cards, discounted Travel Insurance, Experience Days and even discounted bicycles through our Cycle to Work Scheme
- And so much more!
Did you know, we are also part of the EssilorLuxottica family? EssilorLuxottica is the global leader in the design, manufacture and distribution of lenses, frames and sunglasses! We are home to the most loved and widely-recognised vision care and eyewear brands in the world. Their priority eyewear brands include Ray-Ban, Oakley, Costa, Vogue Eyewear, Persol and Oliver Peoples, complemented by over 20 prestigious licensed brands.
Company
Here at Vision Express, we're proud to be part of EssilorLuxottica, the global leader in the design, manufacture and distribution of lenses, frames and sunglasses. We're committed to providing exceptional eyecare services and offering the latest in eyewear fashion for our customers. We empower our people to create a brighter future.
Our friendly and approachable colleagues provide high standards of personal service and care, making sure our customers feel confident with their eyewear choices. Our world-leading expertise in lens and eyewear technology, allows us to shape the industry and make a meaningful impact on people's lives every day.
As an Eyecare Professional with Vision Express, you'll work with some of the world's most advanced technology, giving you the opportunity to work with cutting-edge equipment that will take your optometry career to the next level. Our ambition to See More and Be More, for our customers, is supported by our Eye Care Professionals who provide eyecare and eyewear solutions.
We'll support your learning and growth, whether you're a recent graduate or an experienced professional. We offer a wide range of training & development opportunities to help you progress towards your career goals. Whether you want to become an Optometrist Store Manager, Dispensing Optician, or support the next generation of Pre-Registration students by becoming a Pre-Reg Development Tutor. We offer a clear career path that allows you to grow at your own pace and take on new challenges.
Our roles are advertised with specific hours, but we're all about flexibility. We encourage candidates to share their preferred working arrangements, whether it's adjusting your hours around the school run, or compressing your week, we're open to discussing flexible options with you.
Join us in our mission to See More and Be More.
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