Licensed Optical Manager L3 - Sam's Club $5,000 Sign On Bonus

Walmart • Middletown, NY

6d • Onsite

About The Position

The Licensed Optical Manager is responsible for driving sales in the Vision Center by ensuring effective merchandise presentation, accurate pricing, proper signing, and optimal stock and inventory levels. This role involves budgeting, forecasting sales, and assessing economic trends and community needs. The manager will also oversee the implementation of community outreach programs and encourage associates to be good community members. A key aspect of the role is ensuring compliance with all company and legal policies, procedures, and regulations for the Vision Center, including asset protection, safety controls, operational reviews, and developing action plans for improvement. The manager provides supervision and development opportunities for Vision Center Associates, including hiring, training, mentoring, assigning duties, providing recognition, and fostering a sense of belonging. Additionally, the manager ensures the provision of quality eyewear by consulting with and educating members/customers, selecting products, maintaining confidential information, performing minor frame repairs, and maintaining optical equipment. The role also involves upholding the company's Open Door Policy by addressing associate concerns and coordinating job-related activities by building relationships with stakeholders and supporting business initiatives.

Requirements

• Completion of 2 or more years' of college OR 1 year’s retail experience and 1 year’s supervisory experience OR 2 years’ general work experience including 1 year’s optical experience.

Nice To Haves

• Supervising Associates

Responsibilities

• Drives sales in the Vision Center by ensuring effective merchandise presentation including accurate and competitive pricing proper signing and instock and inventory levels budgeting and forecasting sales and assessing economic trends and community needs
• Models enforces and provides direction and guidance to Associates on proper CustomerMember service approaches and techniques to ensure CustomerMember needs complaints and issues are successfully resolved within Company guidelines and standards
• Oversees the implementation of and participates in community outreach programs and encourages Associates to serve as good members of the community
• Ensures compliance with Company and legal policies procedures and regulations for the Vision Center by analyzing and interpreting reports implementing and monitoring asset protection and safety controls overseeing safety operational and quality assurance reviews developing and implementing action plans to improve performance providing direction and guidance on executing Company programs and strategic initiatives and directing the Vision Center Associates in ensuring confidentiality of information documentation and assigned records
• Provides supervision and development opportunities for Associates in the Vision Center by hiring training mentoring assigning duties providing recognition and promoting a belonging mindset in the workplace
• Ensures the provision of quality eyewear by consulting with and educating MembersCustomers selecting products based on MemberCustomer needs obtaining measurements verifying prescriptions maintaining confidential information performing minor frame repair and maintaining Optical equipment
• Upholds the Company's Open Door Policy: by meeting with Associates and listening to concerns researching issues reviewing Company policies and procedures and suggesting resolution for Associates
• Coordinates completes and oversees job related activities and assignments by developing and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders supporting plans and initiatives to meet customer and business needs identifying and communicating goals and objectives building accountability for and measuring progress in achieving results identifying and addressing improvement opportunities and demonstrating adaptability and promoting continuous learning
• Provides supervision and development opportunities for associates by hiring and training mentoring assigning duties providing recognition and promoting a belonging mindset in the workplace
• Ensures compliance with company policies and procedures and supports company mission values and standards of ethics and integrity by implementing related action plans utilizing and supporting the Open Door Policy: and providing direction and guidance on applying these in executing business processes and practices
• Respect the individual: Builds high performing teams embraces differences in people cultures ideas and experiences creates a workplace where associates feel seen supported and connected through a culture of belonging creates opportunities for all associates to thrive and perform
• Respect the individual: Works collaboratively builds strong and trusting relationships communicates with impact energy and positivity to motivate and influence
• Respect the individual: Attracts and retains the best talent empowers and develops talent and recognizes others contributions and accomplishments
• Act with Integrity: Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity ethics and compliance models the Walmart values to support and foster our culture holds oneself and others accountable supports Walmarts goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates customers members and the world around useg creating a sense of belonging eliminating waste participating in local giving
• Act with Integrity: Acts in a selfless manner and is consistently humble selfaware honest fair and transparent
• Serve Our Customers and Members Delivers results while putting the customer first considers and adapts to how where and when customers shop and applies the EDLP and EDLC business models to all plans
• Serve Our Customers and Members Makes decisions based on data insights and analysis balances short and longterm priorities and considers our customers fellow associates shareholders suppliers business partners and communities when making plans
• Strive for Excellence: Displays curiosity and a desire to learn takes calculated risks demonstrates courage and resilience and encourages learning from mistakes
• Strive for Excellence: Drives continuous improvements adopts and encourages the use of new technologies and skills and supports others through change

Benefits

• Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage
• Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance
• Paid time off benefits include PTO, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting.
• PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes.
• short-term and long-term disability
• company discounts
• Military Leave Pay
• adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
• Live Better U is a company paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: Associate degree