# Optical Manager

**Company**: Asda
**Location**: Taunton
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: Competitive salary plus benefits
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

As an Optical Manager at Asda, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the health and wellbeing of our customers through excellent service and clinical care.

You will oversee and manage the entire operation, including managing a team of Optometrists and Optical assistants, compliance processes and procedures, sales forecasting, and department targets.

Key responsibilities include:

- Managing your team of Optometrists and Optical assistants

- Overseeing compliance processes and procedures

- Reviewing sales forecasting and department targets

- Dealing with customer queries

- Clinic management and managing the shop floor process

- Coaching and developing your team in close partnership with an Optometrist

Requirements:

- Fully qualified dispensing optician registered with the GOC

- On track to meet the statutory points requirement for CPD

- Confident in coaching others

- Excellent customer and patient care skills

- Proven leadership skills in a fast-paced Optics environment

- Organised and able to manage your time effectively

Benefits:

- Competitive salary

- Discretionary company bonus

- Company pension up to 7% matched

- 15% colleague discount in store and online

- Free access to wellbeing services such as Stream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans, and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline

- Professional indemnity insurance

- GOC fees paid

- CET package

- Flexible working patterns

- Asda Allies Inclusion Networks

- Excellent parental leave policies

## Skills

### Required
- dispensing optician
- leadership
- customer care
- time management
- coaching

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