(USA) Optical Manager NL1 - Sam's Abilene

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.

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, and overseeing safety, operational, and quality assurance reviews.
• Develops and implements action plans to improve performance, provides direction and guidance on executing Company programs and strategic initiatives, and directs Vision Center Associates in ensuring confidentiality of information, documentation, and assigned records.
• Hires, trains, mentors, assigns duties, provides recognition, and promotes 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.
• Oversees the implementation of and participates in community outreach programs, encouraging Associates to serve as good members of the community.
• Provides supervision and development opportunities for Associates in the Vision Center.
• Coordinates and oversees job-related activities and assignments, developing and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders, supporting plans and initiatives to meet customer and business needs, and identifying and communicating goals and objectives.
• Builds high-performing teams, embraces differences, creates a workplace where associates feel seen, supported, and connected through a culture of belonging, and provides opportunities for all associates to thrive and perform.
• Respects individuals, 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.
• Acts with integrity, maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics, and compliance, models the Walmart values, holds oneself and others accountable, supports Walmart's goal of becoming a regenerative company, and makes a positive impact for associates, customers, members, and the world around.
• Serves 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.
• 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.
• Offers competitive pay and benefits, including health benefits, financial benefits, paid time off benefits, and other benefits such as short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, military leave pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.

  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.
  • Preferred qualifications not listed.

  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.

  Preferred Qualifications

  • Not listed.

  Supervising Associates

  Primary Location: 5550 S. CLACK ST, ABILENE, TX 79606-3708, United States of America