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Retail, Healthcare, Optical Services

Sr. Optical Specialist - Lead

Overland Park, KSOnsitePart TimeLead$12–$16 /hrPosted 1 month agoVisa sponsorship available

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Required skills

  • Optical Experience
  • Optician License
  • Sales Goals
  • Customer Experience
  • Eyewear Measurement
  • Product Knowledge
  • Store Operations

Nice to have

  • Visionworks
  • Managed Vision Care

Role summary

Visionworks is seeking a charismatic and customer-focused Sr. Optical Specialist-Lead to be the face of their brand. This role involves ensuring an excellent patient and customer journey, recommending eyewear solutions, measuring for glasses, and maintaining optical knowledge. The Lead position also includes daily sales goals, store operations, and potentially opening/closing the store. A minimum of 12 months of optical experience or ABO certification is required, along with maintaining necessary state optician licenses. This part-time, onsite role offers competitive pay and benefits.

About Us:

Want to bring the “care” back to the vision care industry? We're looking for charismatic types who are ready to be the heart of our brand. Whether it's a friendly voice over the phone, or a welcoming smile when a patient walks into your store, we need individuals who are passionate about helping customers look great and see great.

Pay Class: Part Time

Pay: $11.86 - 16.01 per hour

The Role:

A Visionworks Sr. Optical Specialist-Lead/Sales Lead is the very face of our business and is dedicated to ensuring the best possible journey for every patient and customer. This person is trained and knowledgeable about optics, our products/services and managed vision care. The Sr. OS personally takes the patient/customer through the Visionworks experience ensuring their eyewear needs are met in a simple, human and bold way. A Senior Optical Specialist has 12 mo. prior industry (optical) experience.

The SR. OS currently has and maintains license requirements per state guidelines in this role and dispenses eyewear in states where required and/if licensed.

  • Delivers daily sales goals by ensuring the best execution of the Customer/Patient Experience journey
  • Engage with patients/customers and recommend products and services that meet their eye care needs
  • Measure patients/customers for their eyewear and maintain product/optical knowledge through cont. training and development to ensure eyewear is Right the First Time. May troubleshoot eyewear needs as necessary
  • Execute day-to-day operational activities to support the store's financial and customer experience goals including opening and closing the store as needed in LEAD positions only

Qualifications:

  • 12 months optical experience necessary (within Visionworks or other organization) or ABO Certification in lieu of experience
  • HS diploma, GED or equivalent related job experience
  • Maintain Optician License requirements per state guidelines, as needed (Licensed

What we offer!

At Visionworks, we offer a generous, competitive benefits package (for our part timers, too!) and exclusive employee discounts —including but not limited to

  • Vision Coverage
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Bereavement Leave
  • 401 (k) Savings Plan
  • Paid Time off
  • Milestone anniversary awards
  • Medical, Dental for Full Timers
  • And more!

For roles that are remote (i.e., Work From Home (WFH)) or hybrid (i.e., partial onsite at a VSP location and WFM), must demonstrate a high level of engagement in virtual environments, including maintaining camera presence during meetings to support effective communication and team alignment.

Compensation range for the roles is listed above. Applicable salary rangers may differ across markets. Actual pay will be determined based on experience and other job-related factors permitted by law. As a part of the compensation package, this role may include eligible bonuses, equity, and commissions.

VSP Vision is an equal opportunity employer and gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to age, gender, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.

Unincorporated LA County Residents: Qualified Applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act, and any other similar laws.

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