Practice Manager

AEG Vision • Palatine, IL

5d • Onsite

About The Position

The Practice Manager is the primary on-site leader responsible for creating a consistent, patient-centered, high-performing practice environment. The role leads daily operations and supports exceptional patient care, team development, and business results. The Practice Manager sets expectations, coaches and supports team members, manages operational priorities, and aligns the team with patient care standards, provider needs, and performance goals.

The role partners closely with the Optometrist and Field Leadership on clinical service alignment, team development, operational consistency, patient handoffs, practice growth, and business success. The Practice Manager leads through people, process, service, technology, and business execution; interprets performance trends; supports adoption of systems and technology; and guides the practice through changing business and patient care needs.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of leadership experience in optical, healthcare, retail, hospitality, or a comparable service environment.
• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Optical technical knowledge or comparable healthcare, retail, or service leadership experience.
• Ability to lead, coach, develop, and hold team members accountable.
• Ability to guide team members across multiple practice functions and levels of experience.
• Strong communication, coaching, observation, and follow-up skills.
• Ability to analyze reports, trends, business gaps, patient feedback, and performance data.
• Ability to connect business results to team behaviors, patient care, and operational execution.
• Ability to think strategically while identifying specific behaviors, process gaps, and coaching opportunities.
• Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced patient care environment.
• Ability to learn software quickly and support team adoption of current and future practice technology.
• Adaptability in supporting evolving systems, tools, and AI-enabled technology.
• Ability to partner effectively with Optometrists, District Managers, practice staff, and support teams.

Nice To Haves

• Business, hospitality, healthcare, optical, or management education; equivalent experience may be considered.
• Eyecare or optical practice leadership experience.
• Optician certification.

Responsibilities

• Lead daily practice operations, patient flow, staffing, scheduling, labor planning, service execution, and operational consistency.
• Serve as the primary on-site floor leader, supporting team alignment, patient needs, service recovery, and real-time operational priorities.
• Set clear expectations and ensure staff understand daily priorities, role responsibilities, patient care standards, and performance goals.
• Partner with the Optometrist on exam flow, clinical support expectations, required medical services, patient handoffs, team readiness, and evolving service offerings.
• Lead, coach, develop, recognize, and hold team members accountable for performance, patient care standards, service behaviors, and role expectations.
• Support new-hire development, ongoing training, company initiatives, technology updates, process changes, and practice-level learning needs.
• Reinforce patient service behaviors that promote trust, clear communication, timely follow-up, and a smooth patient experience.
• Monitor patient feedback, service trends, communication gaps, remake opportunities, and operational barriers affecting patient experience or business performance.
• Review daily, weekly, and monthly results to identify performance trends, gaps, risks, and opportunities.
• Partner with the District Manager on sales, margin, payroll, profitability, patient experience, operational goals, and practice growth.
• Communicate business priorities to the practice team and connect results to behavior, patient care, and operational execution.
• Use reports, observations, and trend data to identify opportunities in patient access, optical service, staffing, payroll, patient experience, and operational efficiency.
• Learn and adapt to practice systems, reporting tools, patient care technology, operational software, and digital workflows.
• Support team adoption of systems, software updates, workflow changes, and AI-enabled tools introduced in the practice.
• Ensure operational accuracy across systems, patient transactions, benefit-related workflows, documentation, orders, reporting, communication, and service follow-through.
• Support company policies, compliance expectations, asset protection, loss prevention, confidentiality, and operational standards.
• Share best practices and support company initiatives that improve practice performance, patient care, team development, and operational consistency.
• Perform other duties as needed and assigned by the field leader.

Benefits

• 401(k) with company match
• Medical, dental, vision, life, short-term disability, and long-term disability benefits
• Employee vision discount program
• HSA/FSA
• Paid time off
• Paid holidays

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: High school or GED