Optician
Employment Type : Full-Time
The purpose of this role is to provide quality customer service while satisfying the needs of For Eyes customers through the sale and dispensing of eyeglasses, non-prescription sunglasses, contact lenses, and accessories. To uphold
Company’s standards of excellence in customer service; encourage customer recommendations and repeat business.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Personally assist customers by giving prompt, courteous and professional service; assist customers in frame and lens selection, accurately complete required paperwork, accurately measure and order customer spectacles and contact lenses.
- Sell optical Eyewear and contact lenses in accordance with professional standards and in compliance with
Federal, state and local regulations.
- Verify accuracy of completed orders for eyewear and contact lenses.
- Handle customer questions and concerns in a professional and courteous manner.
- Share store maintenance and cleaning duties with co-workers by maintaining well organized work areas; accurate store records and files, greeting customers, answering phones, inputting data, dusting merchandise displays, vacuuming.
- Assist co-workers as needed, including rendering assistance to optometric practice, as appropriate.
- Protect all Company assets, including inventory, cash, credit card drafts, bank deposits and equipment.
- Follow proper procedures when accepting checks and credit cards.
- Deliver individual store sales goals, customer service goals and established key indicator goals and objectives
- Comply with policy, procedures, and federal, state and local regulatory requirements like but not limited to privacy, discrimination, safety and labor.
- Report non-compliance observations and concerns accurately and promptly.
- Build productive trusting relationships with customers.
- Handles difficult or emotional customer situations.
- Respond to customers’ needs and requests for service and assistance.
Accountability:
- Project a positive attitude toward all company objectives and directives; demonstrate teamwork at all times, including attendance at staff meetings and other training or company functions as required. Continually promote, support and reinforce the For Eyes philosophy of the 3 C’s: “Take care of the Customer, the Company and Co- workers.”
- Demonstrate dedication to honest and ethical business practices at all times.
- Uphold company standards to professional behavior in all business dealings.
- Successfully complete For Eyes training requirements in a timely manner.
- Foster Teamwork – maintain a positive working relationship with your co-workers, supervisors, OD and OD staff that supports and contributes to exam growth, high capture rate, and delivering sales goal.
- Drive and deliver Results – Deliver and achieve individual stores’ sales goal and established key indicator goals.
Performance is measured on Sales Results and Growing the Business.
- Comply with company policy, procedures and regulatory requirements like but not limited to HIPAA, PCI-DSS,
ADA. Report non-compliance observations and concerns accurately and promptly.
- Able to handle job stress and interact effectively with others in the workplace.
Core Competencies Required:
- Customer Focus: provide superior services and deliverables by understanding the customer (internally and externally) and the community environment to promote loyalty.
- Execution Excellence and Reliability: effectively execute steps to produce a desired change to improve and grow the business .
- Flexibility/Open Mind: adapt well to changing conditions, new ways of thinking and perceptions in a variety of situations and with various individuals and groups to work effectively.
- Whole Leadership: lead myself and others to make a difference and deliver results in a responsible, authentic, resilient, inclusive and passionate manner.
- Team Effectiveness: adapt well to changing conditions, new ways of thinking and perceptions in a variety of situations and with various individuals and groups to work effectively.
Education and/or Experience Required:
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- Should have a minimum of one year retail sales and/or customer service work experience.
- Able to work flexible schedule, including evenings and weekends.
- Occasional travel and work in different store locations in District.
- Previous optical sales experience preferred.
Language Skills Needed:
Excellent oral and written communication skills (high level of English is a necessity).
Mathematical Skills Required:
Math and algebra ability to accurately calculate and understand optical math, sales, and insurance payments.
Reasonable Ability:
Must be able to work independently.
Physical Demands on the Role:
- Must be able to remain in a stationary position 50% of the time
- Includes lifting up to 25 lbs
- The person in this position frequently communicates with customers, co-workers and company. Must be able to exchange accurate and understood information in these situations
- Ability to move about the store to access sales floor, adjustment area, office machinery, etc.
- Adequate visual acuity to product SKUs.
- Ability to remember and recall details like optics, promotions, insurance, and customer encounters
- Considerable data entry into a computer and other office machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine, and computer printer. Must be able to enter accurate information
- Constantly positions self to access customers, product, and computers, including frame racks and products under counters and inside cabinetry
- Occasionally ascend/descends a ladder for store maintenance, i.e. cleaning, change light bulbs etc.
Job Type: Full-time
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Employee discount
- Flexible schedule
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Referral program
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
- Weekend availability
Supplemental Pay:
Education:
- High school or equivalent (Preferred)
Experience:
- Sales: 1 year (Preferred)
Work Location:
Work Remotely:
Work Location: One location