Myopia Consultant | Ophthalmic Lenses | South West England & Wales
Zest Optical is working in partnership with a global leader in ophthalmic lenses to recruit a Myopia Consultant covering South West England & Wales.
This is an exciting opportunity for a qualified Dispensing Optician, Contact Lens Optician or Optometrist who is passionate about myopia management and clinical education. Joining a market-leading manufacturer, you'll play a key role in supporting optical practices to develop and grow their myopia management offering through education, training and commercial partnership.
Working closely with independent optical practices, optical retailers and NHS eye care professionals, you'll help drive engagement with innovative myopia management solutions while establishing yourself as the regional clinical expert.
Myopia Consultant – Role
Develop and grow myopia management across a defined territory in South West England & Wales.
Build strong relationships with independent optical practices, optical retailers and eye care professionals.
Deliver engaging clinical training, CPD presentations and educational workshops.
Support practices with implementing successful myopia management pathways.
Provide in-practice coaching and education for Optometrists, Dispensing Opticians and support teams.
Organise and deliver regional educational events and professional meetings.
Develop relationships with NHS ophthalmology departments to increase awareness of myopia management solutions.
Work closely with the wider sales, marketing and professional services teams.
Maintain accurate CRM records and territory activity.
Represent the business at exhibitions, conferences and industry events.
Myopia Consultant – Requirements
Qualified Dispensing Optician, Contact Lens Optician or Optometrist.
Passion for myopia management and clinical education.
Previous field sales experience or experience working within optical practice.
Excellent presentation and communication skills.
Strong commercial awareness and relationship-building ability.
Organised, self-motivated and able to manage your own territory.
Full UK driving licence.
Package
Base salary circa £50k
Performance-related bonus
Company car
Pension
Private healthcare
Additional company benefits
Ongoing training and career development opportunities
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At STR Group, our Client Solutions Executives engage organisations across specialist STEM industries to understand how they deliver critical projects, overcome resource constraints and access specialist expertise. You’ll be the engine at the top of our sales funnel identifying potential clients, starting meaningful commercial conversations and generating qualified opportunities for our Client Services Directors.
This is broader than traditional recruitment sales. Depending on the client’s objectives, the right solution could involve permanent or contract recruitment, staff augmentation, multi-hire campaigns, project teams, Statement of Work delivery, retained search, or market intelligence and workforce consulting.
Working closely with a Client Services Director, you’ll qualify each opportunity before providing a comprehensive handover for solution design, commercial discussions and deal closure. You’ll gain exposure to a wide range of workforce and project delivery models while developing the commercial knowledge and credibility required to become a trusted client advisor.
Working at STR
STR Group is an international workforce and project solutions consultancy specialising in high-tech facilities, life sciences, engineering and technology, marine and automation. Since our inception in 2000, we have continued to evolve alongside our clients and the STEM industries we support. Our approach begins with understanding what a client is trying to achieve. We diagnose the challenge, evaluate the available options and design a solution aligned with the client’s commercial and operational objectives.
What will you be doing?
As a Client Solutions Executive, you’ll play an important role in that process by identifying organisations with emerging workforce or delivery challenges and connecting them with the expertise and solutions needed to achieve their goals. You will be:
Identifying prospective clients and developing strategic target accounts across specialist STEM sectors
Engaging new clients through telephone, email, LinkedIn, networking and targeted marketing campaigns
Researching organisations investing in capital projects, operational improvements, digital transformation, manufacturing expansion and other business-critical programmes
Building relationships with engineering leaders, project directors, operations managers, procurement teams, HR, talent acquisition and executive stakeholders
Holding consultative conversations to understand clients’ objectives, project scope, programme timelines, delivery risks and internal capabilities
Identifying where STR can add value through retained search, staff augmentation, contract project teams, multi-hire permanent projects, Statement of Work solutions, workforce consulting, or permanent and contract recruitment
Generating and scheduling high-quality discovery meetings for the Client Services Director
What are we looking for?
Experienced in business development, sales development, lead generation or client engagement within a B2B environment
Confident initiating conversations and engaging senior technical, operational and commercial stakeholders
Comfortable with proactive outbound business development and working towards performance targets
Consultative and solutions-led, with the ability to recognise that every client requires a different approach
Organised and disciplined when managing CRM records, prospecting activity and opportunity pipelines
An excellent communicator with strong relationship-building skills
Interested in developing expertise across specialist STEM markets and complex workforce solutions
What are we offering you?
A clear pathway into senior business development, client solutions, strategic account management and consulting
Award-winning, ongoing learning and development delivered by dedicated in-house experts
Structured training and mentoring from experienced commercial leaders
A 3pm finish every Friday
Modern, state-of-the-art offices with breakout areas
Daily breakfast provided
Employee of the Month and Employee of the Quarter awards
Quarterly Directors’ Lunches at Michelin-recommended restaurants
An active Equality, Diversity and Inclusion board
Annual, all-expenses-paid incentive trips for top performers
Annual Awards, Summer Party and Christmas Party
Long-service anniversary rewards, including additional holiday, bonuses, vouchers, champagne and gifts, depending on length of service
23 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays, increasing by one day for each completed year of service and capped at 28 days
The option to purchase up to five additional days of annual leave
Healthcare cash plan and optional private healthcare from day one
Company pension scheme
Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
Your birthday off
Drinks fridge
Free on-site parking
Cycle-to-work scheme
Electric vehicle salary-sacrifice scheme through Octopus Electric Vehicles
Tech salary-sacrifice scheme through Currys
Employee Referral Programme
This is an opportunity to build a highly rewarding commercial career while developing genuine expertise in specialist global markets. You’ll help organisations overcome complex workforce and project delivery challenges while contributing directly to the continued growth of STR Group.
STR is committed to offering applicants with disabilities an interview where they meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy. Apply today and take the next step in your career as a Client Solutions Executive with STR Group.
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Are you the sort of person who sees an opportunity, makes the introduction and keeps things moving until something happens?Jane Leonard is looking for a proactive, commercially minded and highly organised person to help grow Jane Leonard and PIECE by Piece into a more visible and regularly booked speaking and performance brand. The role can largely be managed remotely, with occasional in-person meetings, filming days or attendance at speaking engagements where useful. Based on a 65 hour month: £1,200 per month fixed fee + 10% commission on paid speaking fees directly generated through the role.Jane's background spans elite sport, the military, endurance challenges, coaching and speaking. She represented England at rugby and has rowed across the Pacific Ocean, giving her a powerful story around performance, resilience, challenge and making the next move. PIECE by Piece is the next chapter, helping people make their next move, one piece at a time. There is already a strong story, a clear message and proven speaking experience. The opportunity now is to turn that into a consistent pipeline of speaking engagements and build the systems and relationships needed to support continued growth.You will have plenty of autonomy to shape the approach, identify opportunities and play a meaningful part in developing the brand.The Role
The main focus of the role will be business development and generating speaking opportunities. You will identify and approach schools, academies, businesses, sports teams, universities and other organisations that could benefit from hearing Jane speak.You will build relationships, create opportunities, follow them up consistently and help turn conversations into confirmed bookings.You will not be starting completely from scratch. Jane already has existing contacts, previous clients, schools, organisations and warm leads. Part of the role will be to bring these together into a more organised system, build a proper database or CRM-style process and then grow the pipeline significantly through new outreach and relationship-building.Once a speaking opportunity is secured, you will also help organise the engagement, making sure Jane and the client have everything they need for the event to run smoothly.Your responsibilities will include:
Identifying suitable organisations, audiences and speaking opportunitiesBringing existing contacts and warm leads into one organised systemBuilding and maintaining a database of relevant contacts and opportunitiesCarrying out personalised outreach by email, LinkedIn and phoneHelping turn enquiries and conversations into confirmed speaking bookingsCoordinating speaking engagements, including dates, timings, venues, briefs and key requirementsKeeping track of leads, meetings, bookings, fees and next actionsManaging Jane's speaking pipeline and ensuring opportunities do not get missedHelping grow the visibility of PIECE by PieceCreating and managing a simple LinkedIn and Instagram content planSpotting stories, testimonials and content opportunitiesSourcing and coordinating photographers and videographers when requiredTurning speaking engagements into future content, introductions and further opportunities
Who Could This Suit?
Your exact background is less important than your ability to create opportunities, build relationships and stay organised.You could come from business development, recruitment, account management, events, marketing, PR, talent management or another relationship-led role.Someone from an events or event management background could be particularly well suited, as the role combines generating opportunities with organising the practical details around speaking engagements.You will need to be:Proactive. Organised. Confident. Commercially minded. Persistent. Creative. Excellent with people.You will also need to be organised enough to take an opportunity from the first conversation through to a successfully delivered speaking engagement.This role will suit someone who naturally thinks:"This is what we need to do next."The Opportunity
This is an opportunity to become closely involved in growing a speaking and personal development brand at an exciting stage.Rather than simply being handed a fixed process to follow, you will have the freedom to help shape how opportunities are identified, approached, managed and converted.Speaking fees vary depending on the event, audience and level of involvement, but a typical keynote fee is around £1,000-£1,500 plus expenses. The Arrangement
The role will initially be offered as a three-month freelance trial.The role is based on an expected minimum commitment of around 15 hours per week, approximately 65 hours per month.It is designed to be flexible rather than based around fixed working hours, so some weeks may require a little more or less time depending on speaking opportunities, meetings and activity.If the first three months are successful, there is significant scope for the role to develop alongside Jane Leonard and PIECE by Piece.....Read more...