Certified Optical Manager NL2 - Sam's

Position Summary

Drives sales in the Vision Center by ensuring effective merchandise presentation including accurate and competitive pricing, proper signing, and instock and inventory levels. Budgets, forecasts sales, assesses 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.

Responsibilities

• Budgets and forecasts sales and assesses economic trends and community needs
• Ensures compliance with Company and legal policies, procedures, and regulations by analyzing and interpreting reports, implementing and monitoring asset protection and safety controls, overseeing safety, operational, and quality assurance reviews, and developing and implementing action plans to improve performance
• 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/CustomerCustomers, 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, listening to concerns, researching issues, reviewing Company policies and procedures, and suggesting resolutions 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
• Supervises and develops opportunities for Associates by hiring, 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
• Respects the individual by building high-performing teams, embracing differences, creating a workplace where associates feel seen, supported, and connected through a culture of belonging, creating opportunities for all associates to thrive and perform
• Acts with Integrity by maintaining and promoting the highest standards of integrity, ethics, and compliance, modeling the Walmart values to support and foster the culture, holding oneself and others accountable, supporting Walmart's goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates, customers, members, and the world around us, using the company's education benefit program for associates, and participating in local giving
• Serves Our Customers and Members by delivering results while putting the customer first, considering and adapting to how, where, and when customers shop, applying the EDLP and EDLC business models to all plans, making decisions based on data insights and analysis, balancing short and long-term priorities, and considering our customers, fellow associates, shareholders, suppliers, business partners, and communities when making plans
• Strives for Excellence by displaying curiosity and a desire to learn, taking calculated risks, demonstrating courage and resilience, encouraging learning from mistakes, driving continuous improvements, adopting and encouraging the use of new technologies and skills, and supporting others through change

Qualifications

• 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

Pay and Benefits

The hourly wage range for this position is $30.00 - $40.00. Additional compensation in the form of premiums may be paid in amounts ranging from $0.35 per hour to $3.00 per hour in specific circumstances. Premiums may be based on schedule, facility, season, or specific work performed. Multiple premiums may apply if applicable criteria are met.

Benefits include health benefits (medical, vision, and dental coverage), financial benefits (401(k), stock purchase, and company-paid life insurance), paid time off benefits (PTO, parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting), and other benefits (short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, military leave pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more).

For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.