Dispensing Optician

Zest Business Group; Ringway; On-site; GBP 33,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Trunk shows

Industry-leading training

Unhurried service

Job summary

Zest Optical in Manchester city centre is seeking a GOC-registered Dispensing Optician to lead bespoke styling consultations and shape each client’s eyewear journey. You’ll guide clients through a personally curated experience, building long-term relationships and participating in trunk shows and launches.

Join a team that treats eyewear as personal identity, delivering five-star hospitality in a luxury optical environment with unhurried service and exceptional training.

Qualifications

• GOC-registered Dispensing Optician is required.
• Strong communication and rapport-building skills.
• Comfortable with high service standards and luxury retail vibe.

Responsibilities

• Lead full styling consultations, understanding lifestyle and personal style before selecting frames.
• Guide clients through a bespoke eyewear journey, not a transaction.
• Build long-term relationships with clients who return for years.
• Get involved in trunk shows, collection launches and events.
• Work with a close-knit team that takes pride in the standard delivered.
• Be part of a practice shaping best-in-class standards for the industry.

Skills

Warm communicator

Stylish eyewear mindset

Customer relationship

Education

GOC-registered Dispensing Optician

Job description

Dispensing Optician | Manchester City Centre | Bespoke Styling Practice | Up to £33,000 + Bonus Potential £12,000+

Some practices dispense glasses. This one choreographs an experience - the coffee, the music, the curated tray of frames chosen just for you - and has built one of the most talked-about reputations in the country doing it.

At a Glance

• Dispensing Optician (Styling Consultant) role, Manchester city centre
• Up to £33,000 salary + bonus potential exceeding £12,000
• Full time, 9:00am-5:30pm, one full weekend off per month
• No rushed dispenses - full styling consultations built around the individual

About the Opportunity

Zest Optical are working in partnership with one of the UK's most respected boutique styling practices, based in the heart of Manchester city centre. This isn't a practice that dispenses off a rack. Every client goes through a full styling consultation - getting to know their lifestyle, their personality, what they actually want to feel like in a frame - before a tray of hand-picked options is curated just for them. Every touchpoint is considered. The coffee is locally roasted. The music is chosen. The pace is unhurried. It's a service philosophy borrowed from the best names in hospitality as much as from optics, and it shows: a five-star reputation built on hundreds of genuine reviews, a client base that returns for decades, and a calendar that includes trunk shows, collection launches and team socials rather than just another week on the shop floor. Opticians travel from across the UK and internationally just to see how this practice does what it does - this is very much the flagship for that way of working.

The Role

• Lead full styling consultations - understanding a client's lifestyle, features and personal style before curating their tray of frames
• Guide clients through a genuinely bespoke eyewear journey, not a transactional dispense
• Build long-term relationships with clients who return again and again, often for years
• Get involved in trunk shows, collection launches and events that showcase the practice's range
• Work alongside a small, close-knit team who take real pride in the standard they deliver
• Be part of a practice actively shaping what "best in class" looks like for the wider industry

What We're Looking For

• GOC-registered Dispensing Optician
• Someone who sees eyewear as identity and personal style, not just a prescription solution
• A natural, warm communicator who can build genuine rapport quickly
• Comfortable being coached to a very high service standard - this is closer to luxury retail or hospitality than a typical optical role
• Genuine excitement at the idea of working somewhere this considered, rather than intimidated by it

Salary & Benefits

• Salary up to £33,000
• Bonus potential exceeding £12,000 per year
• 9:00am-5:30pm, Monday to Saturday, with one full weekend off per month
• Access to trunk shows, supplier events and industry-leading training
• The chance to learn from a practice that other opticians travel to study

Interested?

This is a rare one, and it won't suit everyone - but for the right person, it's about as good as boutique optical gets in the UK.