Vision Express

We're creating joy in vision for our customers, through an expert and trusted eyecare experience.
Through organic growth and acquisition, we have almost 600 Vision Express stores across the UK, Ireland and Jersey - from big city locations, to your local high street and Tesco stores. We're creating joy in vision across the country.

We're part of the leading international optical retail group, GrandVision NV.
GrandVision, part of the EssilorLuxottica group, commits to long-term investment and growth which opens up even more opportunities for our career development. Although we remain a distinct brand, our close association with GrandVision means that your opportunities aren't limited to the UK and allows working with the group within other countries a real big possibility.

7,200+
Stores

40+
Countries

39,000+
Colleagues

At Vision Express, the benefits grow as you do. We recognise and reward our colleagues, in the moments that matter to you. We offer a range of exciting benefits that you can enjoy when you join us, as well as a variety of additional benefits that you can choose based on your individual preference and circumstance.

We're proud to offer our colleagues longer term advice through our Financial Wellbeing hub ranging from reviewing your pension package or support through our Employee Assistance Programme.

To name a few of your benefits, you'll receive:
- 33 days annual leave which increases with your length of service
- Free annual eye wear
- Friends and family discount vouchers
- Perk pension scheme
- Wellbeing incentives
- Flexible working patterns
- Fully funded professional fees
- Internal communication platform so you can network with everybody at VE
- Private medical cover
- Life assurance
- Company car / car allowance (depending on your role)
- Career development plans

We're passionate about the training and development available for our colleagues. We believe that learning can impact a whole life, not just the working life. We encourage our colleagues to create time and space for learning, supporting them with a variety of opportunities to grow, stretch and develop new skills and capabilities.

From the moment you start your career with us, we'll make you feel welcomed and part of our business quickly, through our "NO LIMITS" onboarding journey, which we've designed to set our new starters up for success and enable a smooth and supportive transition into the business and their new role. A blended learning approach enables our new starters to build networks, attend learning events and immerse themselves into the world of optical retail.

Wherever your talent lies, there's endless possibilities here at Vision Express, join us and embrace what Limitless Horizons.

As Vision Express colleagues, you can curate your own career path, gaining a breadth of knowledge and experience across the business; whether that's working in store as a Retail Assistant or Qualified Eye Care Professional, out in the field as a Regional Manager or working in a specialist function in our Store Support Centre, the opportunities are endless.

- Creating early career opportunities

We understand that for young people, leaving school, college or university and finding the right career path is a big step and a huge decision, that’s why we offer early career opportunities including our market leading 13-month apprenticeship which is designed to develop both technical skills and retail knowledge, whilst providing valuable on the job experience


- Continuous Development For Our Eye Care Professional Communities

We know how important it is for our Eye Care Professionals to maintain up to date skills and knowledge needed to practice safely and effectively throughout their career. With access to a wide variety of CPD learning events designed to enhance behavioural skills, development and technical expertise, and the opportunity to access further education with additional clinical qualifications. In a world where knowledge is power, we encourage strong networks and sharing across the communities through professional forums; and should our professionals wish to share their expertise, we offer the opportunities to become supervisors for our next generation of Eye Care Professionals, such as our Optometrists, Contact Lens Opticians and Dispensing Opticians.

- Enabling Success Through Game Changing Leadership

Our leaders and managers play a key role in bringing our colleague and customer promise to life and to create an environment for our colleagues to thrive and perform at their best, which is why our learning strategy is heavily focused on enabling leadership skills and capabilities. Our highly successful leadership programmes provide role-specific learning that blends experimental learning with practical, on-the-job experience, which is specifically designed to support the transition into the next stage in your career. From pathway into management, through to our more senior leadership roles across the business.

Focusing on our social purpose is an amazing way to reinforce our values: Achieving More, Winning Together and Always Human - delivering our purpose of creating joy in vision.

We work with a number of charities and community organisations whose causes we support through campaigns and activities which aim to raise awareness of important issues - whether related to eye health or helping to deliver value within local communities.

Our amazing charity partners The Macular Society and the Childhood Eye Cancer Trust (CHECT), where chose by our colleagues for their fantastic work. Our CSR activities help colleagues to make a positive difference in a very simple and flexible way, through joyous fundraising, creativity, plenty of teamwork and lots of fun!