Your guide to Optical Sales Jobs

Are you an Optical Practice Manager, a Dispensing Optician or Optometrist and want to develop your career in Sales?  If so, Zest Optical have successfully placed a variety of practice based staff into exciting commercial opportunities with a number of key optical manufacturers in the UK.

It's no secret that many of the major manufacturers and leading brands in the UK Optical market look to the retail sectors to select their sales staff.  Having an understanding of the market, the selling cycles and dealing with customers is key to any successful role in this industry.  Having worked in practice you will have built up relationships with manufacturers through their sales staff and may well have seen first hand what types of selling styles work and those that don't.   

What types of roles are available?

Traditionally candidates would be employed in sales roles and these can be referred to as Area Sales Manager, Business Development Manager, Territory Manager, Area Sales Representative, or Account Manager.  Simply put you will be given a geographical region where you will promote and sell the companies products to existing customers and new business accounts.   More recently we have seen further opportunities come available as manufacturers strive to gain competitive advantage through non-direct selling methods. These will typically include training roles, both national and regional, marketing and sales support roles and professional services.  Roles are available with Ophthalmic Lens Manufacturers, Contact Lens Manufacturers, Frame Manufacturers and Distributors, Optical equipment suppliers and Surgical Equipment companies.

Interested?

Ok...so you have decided that you are ready to develop your career in optical sales, what is next?  It is important to do a number of things, the most important is to do your research, figure out what types of products interest you more and in what area you feel your skill set is best suitable and then give Zest Optical a call on 0114 238 0012. We have a number of experienced consultants with proven expertise in assisting with your move into this sector.  Our aim will be to utilize the contacts that we have, our industry connections, to make sure that you have the best chance possible of breaking into sales and enjoying all that this part of the industry has to offer.

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