Optical Manager L1 - 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 and enforces proper customer/member service approaches and techniques to resolve issues within Company guidelines and standards.

What you'll do...

• Budgets and forecasts sales and assesses economic trends and community needs.
• Ensures compliance with Company and legal policies, procedures, and regulations.
• Oversees the implementation of and participates in community outreach programs.
• Ensures compliance with Company policies and procedures.
• Provides supervision and development opportunities for Associates.
• Ensures the provision of quality eyewear by consulting with and educating Members/Customers.
• Consults with and educates Members/Customers, selects products based on Member/Customer needs, obtains measurements, verifies prescriptions, maintains confidential information, performs minor frame repair, and maintains Optical equipment.
• Coordinates, completes, and oversees job-related activities and assignments.
• Respects the individual: Builds high-performing teams, embraces differences, creates a workplace where associates feel seen, supported, and connected through a culture of belonging, and promotes opportunities for all associates to thrive and perform.
• Acts with Integrity: Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics, and compliance, acts in a selfless manner, is consistent in humility, honesty, fairness, and transparency, and makes decisions based on data insights and analysis.
• Serves 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. Makes decisions based on data insights and analysis, balances short and long-term priorities, and considers associates, shareholders, suppliers, business partners, and communities when making plans.
• Strives for Excellence: Displays curiosity and a desire to learn, takes calculated risks, demonstrates courage and resilience, encourages learning from mistakes, drives continuous improvements, adopts and encourages the use of new technologies and skills, and supports others through change.
• Additional responsibilities include providing supervision and development opportunities for associates, ensuring compliance with company policies and procedures, and supporting company mission values and standards of ethics and integrity.

Minimum 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.
• A high school diploma or equivalent.
• Current eligibility to work as an optician or apprentice optician under applicable state laws, regulations, and/or rules.

Preferred Qualifications

• Supervising Associates.

Additional Information

• Minimum hourly wage range: $36.00 - $46.00.
• 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.
• 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.
• Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, military leave pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.
• Lives 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.
• For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.
• The hourly wage range for this position is $36.00 - $46.00.
• 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.