Area Manager

Area Manager (Temporary Developmental Opportunity)

Reports to: Regional Manager

Location: Field Operations

Are you a leader who is eager to coach, train, and motivate competitive teams to consistently exceed expectations? As a Now Optics Area Manager you will be responsible to develop high performing teams that maximize profits and deliver outstanding customer service. In this role you will leverage our retail brands, Stanton Optical/My Eyelab, and will support your Regional Manager to drive company sales by ensuring that your home store, as well as the assigned stores within a specific region operate smoothly while maintaining high quality brand and service standards. The Area Manager will embody and endorse our company mission of making eye care easy for all patients and customers in their home store location and additional set of stores assigned.

About us:

Our retail brands, My Eyelab and Stanton Optical, are among the nation’s fastest growing, full-service retail optical centers. We are dedicated to offering customer service and quality eyewear at affordable prices to our patients and customers. As a leading optical retailer, we offer some of the nation's most desirable optical brands.

At Now Optics, our team members share and support our Vision, Mission and Values. These include:

Vision: Modernizing the eye care experience for all people

Mission: Making eye care easy

Values: iCARE

• Integrity: We see integrity as building a foundation of trust with our customers, employees and stakeholders by communicating honestly, ensuring consistency and delivering on our commitments.

• Collaboration: We see collaboration as combining the talents of a diverse group, offering proactive communication and being open-minded to new ideas.

• Accountability: We see accountability as taking initiative, delivering our best in all we do, accepting responsibility for our actions and taking ownership of results.

• Respect: We see respect as prioritizing human relationships, being present, connecting with transparency and empathy.

• Empowerment: We see empowerment as making purpose-driven decisions to support the company vision, showing appreciation for others, and taking care of the individuals we serve.

Duties & Responsibilities:

Through effective talent scouting and development, the Area Manager leverages the Stanton Optical/ My Eyelab brands (SO/MEL) and drives company sales by ensuring that their home store, as well as assigned stores within a specific region operate smoothly while maintaining high quality brand and service standards. The Area Manager will strengthen the SO/MEL brands, by ensuring we make eye care easy for all patients and customers in their home store location and additional set of stores assigned.

Development is a key part of the expectation of the Area Manager’s role; using tools provided the Area Manager will hold the management team accountable for setting expectations and providing continuous development to their staff. It is the Area Manager's responsibility to partner with the support center’s resources and seek guidance from the Regional Manager they report to in order to accomplish business expectations. The Area Manager will strengthen the SO/MEL brands by living our values and delivering to our mission of Making Eye Care Easy. Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Driving top line revenue and overall controllable contributions of home store & own set of stores.

• Reviews and analyzes diverse business reports and data to propose strategic plans to overcome opportunities. Trains Store Managers on financial management skills.

• Demonstrates a clear understanding of the factors which build both the cost and the revenue side of the Profit & Loss Statements, proposing sustainable improvement strategies for home store, as well as for each assigned location.

Talent Acquisition

• Talent scouting for existing, and new store staff. Finding the right candidate to meet brand standards.

• Develop Brand Managers to effectively recruit, and train their employees to the standard of our organization.

Talent Development

• Lead initiatives to successfully develop associates while ensuring daily operations are executed in compliance with brand standards.

• Provides leadership, mentoring, support, and coaching to develop a successful, withstanding business model in each assigned location.

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