Area Manager (5-store market)

Reports to: Regional Manager

Locations: McAllen,TX to Corpus Christi, TX

Are you a leader who is eager to coach, train, and motivate competitive teams to consistently exceed expectations? In this role you will support a 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 brand, Stanton Optical is 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.

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:

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.

Stores’ Continuous Improvement:

• Conducts regular PAR visits (Performance Accelerator Review) for assigned locations.

• Ensure that all assigned locations are providing quality product merchandising.

• Supporting their Regional Manager in driving company initiatives and root-cause focuses to strategize solutions with the goal of driving sales and team engagement.

• Train store staff to review and interpret lab reports, understand escalation channels and possible resolutions based on reports findings.

• Foster and facilitate a collaborative environment by creating a strong partnership with professional services.

Key Qualifications

• You have demonstrated multi-unit retail leadership ability with at least 5 years of experience in a fast-paced retail environment at a management capacity.

• You’re knowledgeable on talent acquisition, talent development, and HR processes.

• You display superior verbal, written, presentation, coaching, and facilitation skills to effectively partner with diverse teams across the organization.

• You are self-directed with excellent time management skills and ability to multi-task and effectively prioritize projects.

• Career progression within the organization is preferred.

Are you the perfect fit?

• Do you share our vision of modernizing eye care for all people and making eye care easy?

• Do you have a Bachelor's degree (B. A.) from a four-year college or university; or two to four years of relative experience?

• Are you able to travel 60-70% of the time?

• Are you consistently promoting high work standards while empowering others to have an entrepreneurial mentality with our company?

• Bi-lingual Spanish preferred