Bring Your Customer-Facing Skills and Continuous Improvement Mentality to a New National Team
Make a Positive Impact Helping Independent Eye Care Practices Become Stronger & More Profitable
Bring your experience as an account executive or lab / brand sales consultant in the medical, pharma, or optical industries to a strategic role where youll use your training, communication, and business development skills. The role of Strategic Initiative Specialist offers compelling opportunities, as you will:
- Play a key role on a newly developed national team that serves as the bridge between exciting corporate growth initiatives and execution in the field.
- Enjoy wide visibility and influence supporting the field where youll work within a strategic framework while helping to develop this role, making your mark, and coming up with ideas to help drive the business forward.
- Joina growing global industry leader. Our 2018 merger with Luxottica made us the world’s largest player in the eyewear industry.
- Have the opportunity to shape and influence your role. We promote entrepreneurship and encourage team members to leverage the full range of their talents and stretch beyond their job descriptions. In this new role, your strong ideas will be welcomed and appreciated.
- Join an organization driven by a threefold mission: Improving lives by improving sight, Innovating for better vision, and Reaching the 2.7 billion underserved.
We have two Strategic Initiative Specialist roles available, one in the Northeast and one in the West region, so please share this information with your network of qualified peers.
To meet the basic qualification for this role, you will have legal authorization to work permanently in the United States for any employer without requiring a visa transfer or visa sponsorship. In addition, to be a good fit for the Strategic Initiative Specialist opportunity, you will have:
- A bachelors degree in business, marketing, or a similar field, or equivalent experience
- 3+ years of experience as an Account Executive, or Lab / Brand Sales Consultant role, ideally with a background in eyecare industry sales or sales management, or experience in a similar industry
- Customer-facing experience and consistent urgency to follow through on all internal and external commitments and communication
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal
- Computer proficiency including experience with Microsoft Office programs
- An understanding of financial concepts and how sales activities impact the P & L and other financial measures
- Demonstrated ability to work both through and alongside front-line salespeople, but independent enough to work alone and directly with customers where needed
- The ability to travel throughout your region about 40-50% of your time
Improving Lives By Improving Sight. Essilor of America, Inc. is the leading manufacturer of eyeglass lenses in the United States, employs more than 10,000 people and operates the largest and most comprehensive optical laboratory network in the U.S. Essilor of America, Inc. is a subsidiary of Paris-based Essilor International. Essilor manufactures optical lenses under the Varilux, Crizal, Transitions, and other brands, and our products are worn by one billion people daily. Essilor has been on Forbes’ list of the World’s 100 Most Innovative Companies every year since 2010, and we ranked #62 out of 700 corporations awarded the title ‘Diversity Leader 2020’ by the Financial Times.
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