(USA) Vision Center Manager NL 1 #301

Walmart•Gadsden, AL

1d•Onsite

About The Position

This position drives sales in the Vision Center by ensuring effective merchandise presentation, accurate and competitive pricing, proper signing, and optimal instock and inventory levels. The role involves budgeting, forecasting sales, and assessing economic trends and community needs. The manager models, enforces, and guides Associates on proper Customer/Member service techniques to resolve issues within Company guidelines. Responsibilities include overseeing and participating in community outreach programs and encouraging Associates to engage in community service. The manager ensures compliance with Company and legal policies, procedures, and regulations for the Vision Center, including asset protection, safety controls, operational reviews, and quality assurance. This involves developing action plans, providing guidance on Company programs, and ensuring confidentiality of information. The role provides supervision and development opportunities for Associates through hiring, training, mentoring, assigning duties, recognition, and fostering a belonging mindset. The manager ensures quality eyewear by consulting with and educating Members/Customers, assisting with product selection, obtaining measurements, verifying prescriptions, maintaining confidential information, performing minor frame repair, and maintaining Optical equipment. The position upholds the Company's Open Door Policy by addressing Associate concerns. It coordinates and oversees job-related activities by building stakeholder relationships, supporting initiatives, communicating goals, measuring progress, identifying improvements, and promoting continuous learning. The manager is expected to build high-performing teams, embrace diversity, create an inclusive workplace, attract and retain talent, and recognize contributions. They must maintain high standards of integrity, ethics, and compliance, model Walmart values, and support Walmart's goal of becoming a regenerative company through positive impact, waste elimination, and local giving. The role requires a selfless, humble, self-aware, honest, fair, and transparent approach. The manager delivers results by prioritizing the customer, adapting to shopping habits, and applying EDLP/EDLC business models. Decisions are based on data and analysis, balancing short and long-term priorities while considering all stakeholders. The position encourages curiosity, continuous improvement, calculated risks, resilience, learning from mistakes, adopting new technologies, and supporting others through change. Walmart, founded by Sam Walton, is dedicated to helping customers save money to live better and is currently reinventing the shopping experience with associates at its core.

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
High school diploma or equivalent
Current eligibility to work as an optician or apprentice optician under applicable state laws, regulations, and/or rules

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 Customer/Member service approaches and techniques to ensure Customer/Member 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 Members/Customers, selecting products based on Member/Customer 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
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
Works collaboratively, builds strong and trusting relationships, communicates with impact, energy, and positivity to motivate and influence
Attracts and retains the best talent, empowers and develops talent, and recognizes others' contributions and accomplishments
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 Walmart's goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates, customers, members, and the world around us (e.g., creating a sense of belonging, eliminating waste, participating in local giving)
Acts in a selfless manner and is consistently humble, self-aware, honest, fair, and transparent
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
Makes decisions based on data, insights, and analysis, balances short and long-term priorities, and considers our customers, fellow associates, shareholders, suppliers, business partners, and communities when making plans
Displays curiosity and a desire to learn, takes calculated risks, demonstrates courage and resilience, and encourages learning from mistakes
Drives continuous improvements, adopts and encourages the use of new technologies and skills, and supports others through change

Benefits

Competitive pay
Performance-based bonus awards
Medical coverage
Vision coverage
Dental coverage
401(k)
Stock purchase
Company-paid life insurance
PTO (including sick leave)
Parental leave
Family care leave
Bereavement
Jury duty
Voting leave
Short-term disability
Long-term disability
Company discounts
Military Leave Pay
Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
Live Better U (Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities, covering high school completion to bachelor's degrees, English Language Learning, and short-form certificates; tuition, books, and fees completely paid for by Walmart)