Frame activation manager

Specsavers; Oslo; On-site; NOK 500,000 - 700,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Free eye care vouchers

Online learning access

Personalized development plans

Job summary

Specsavers in Oslo seeks a Frame Activation Manager to join their Northern Europe Product team for a 12-month contract. The role involves overseeing frame launches, managing budgets, and collaborating with various stakeholders. Candidates should have strong project management skills, a creative mindset, and retail understanding. This position offers a hybrid work solution, competitive salary, and benefits such as health insurance and free eye care vouchers. Join a dynamic team dedicated to eye and hearing care accessibility.

Qualifications

• Excellent project management skills, including management of cross-functional teams.
• Creative mindset with natural interest in trends.
• Proven understanding of retail business and production.
• Confident to influence and communicate effectively.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Excel and sound IT skills.

Responsibilities

• Ensure clear communication of frame launches and the stories behind them.
• Manage the budget for frame activation.
• Coordinate marketing and internal product communications.
• Lead cross-functional teams in the NE Product & Store Activation Group.
• Create internal materials such as product information and training materials.

Skills

Project management skills

Creative mindset

Retail business understanding

Communication skills

Information seeking

Microsoft Excel

Optical industry experience

Job description

Overview

Commercial and creative mindset for our Frame launches!

At Specsavers, we’re dedicated to making eye and hearing care accessible to all. As pioneers and a global leader in innovative technologies, we help people optimise their vision and hearing. We foster your expertise, welcome you into a supportive family, and propel your growth. Grounded in our collaboration, curiosity, courage, and compassion values, we strive to challenge the status quo and invite you to team up with us.

To strengthen our Northern Europe Product team within our frames, we’re searching for a product professional to join our team for 12 months during our team member’s parental leave.

Responsibilities

As our Frame Activation Manager, you’ll be part of a team responsible for continuously improving our work around our frame launches. You’ll ensure that with every frame launch the frames and the stories behind the frame ranges are clearly communicated. You’ll lead the frame launches ensuring that there is a well‑planned and well understood launch plan for all frames in our region that creates passion and excitement in all our sales channels. Working closely with many colleagues and stakeholders across the region and our Group function (based in the UK), you can look forward to many varied tasks, such as:

• Providing insights to Head of Frames to support the development of the strategy and plan
• Managing the budget for frame activation
• Ensuring all the information needed to activate frames is available in a timely fashion
• Coordinating all product comms on our internal site
• Leading marketing in ensuring appropriate frames are selected in advertising
• Coordinating glazing jobs for store activation, PR events, photo shoots etc.
• Daily management of country teams queries
• Leading the Cross functional Senior Team in the NE Product & Store Activation Group
• Responsible for creating internal material such as product information, training material and trend reports
• Frame sample coordination
• Collaboration with the Global Buying & Demand planning team to execute Frames launches

Qualifications

We’re seeking a committed and experienced colleague who either comes from a similar background or has other relevant commercial merits. To succeed and thrive in this role, you’ll need to possess a clear communication style, be organised, and highly focused on delivering on time as well as a creative mindset with natural interest in trends, shapes, forms. To fulfil this role at Specsavers, you should align with the following requirements:

• Excellent project management skills, including management of cross‑functional teams
• Creative mindset
• Proven understanding of retail business and production
• Confident to influence and communicate effectively
• Proactively seeking information and creating attention around products
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Excel and sound IT skills
• Experience from optical industry and from a matrix organisation will be considered as a plus.

To thrive in this position, you’ll need to undertake occasional travel.

Benefits

As our new Frame Activation Manager, you’ll become an integral part of our Glasses team with 5 people and collaborate closely with talented colleagues throughout the organisation. Our team boasts lots of experience in the field, with some members having dedicated many years to Specsavers while others bring fresh perspectives. This role can be based in any of our offices in the Northern Europe region – Copenhagen, Aalborg, Oslo, Gothenburg, Helsinki, or Maarsen. Our offices feature many collaborative spaces as well as space for focus work. We offer a hybrid solution with possibility of working from home to accommodate the best work‑life balance for you.

• Join our global team of friendly, talented, and passionate colleagues. Enjoy a competitive salary package with perks such as pensions, health insurance, free eye care vouchers, and more.
• Grow in your role with free access to online learning, monthly one‑on‑one discussions with your manager, personalised development plans, and increased responsibility.
• We offer a fun work environment with great coffee, laughter, table tennis tournaments, birthday surprises, holiday celebrations, virtual Friday quizzes, and more.

Diversity & Inclusion

Specsavers will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other legally protected factor. In line with our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, we integrate these principles into all aspects of our work, from product development to team building.