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Our vision

Changing lives through better sight and hearing

Specsavers is a great British success story – a family-run retailer that is a familiar name on almost every high street and in the community in the UK and Ireland. Our legendary catchphrase – ‘Should’ve gone to Specsavers’ – is used by everyone and its warm and witty marketing has won a place in people’s hearts.

We are proud of how far we’ve come as a business, now we want to see you grow with us.

We invite you into a supportive family

Specsavers began more than 35 years ago with the vision of two optometrists, Doug and Mary Perkins, who set out to provide best-value eyecare to everybody. 

Their passion for optometry has led Specsavers to become the largest privately-owned optical group in the world, delivering high-quality, affordable optical and hearing care in 10 countries. And it continues to shape the lives and experience of around 37,000 colleagues who are developing their careers with us across the globe.  

Our business in numbers

Specsavers at a glance

Over the last 35 years, we’ve come a long way from our humble beginnings in the Perkins’ spare room. Nowadays, we’re proud to offer affordable eyecare and hearing services to customers across the globe.

2018/19 has been another incredible year for the Specsavers partnership, take a look at some of the numbers below:

1,845

stores worldwide

1984

first store opened

350+

different job roles

£2.5m

donated to charities

10

countries with stores

20m

frames sold

Our mission and values

Our mission: Together with our partners, to passionately provide best value optometry, audiology and other healthcare services to everybody, simply, clearly and consistently, exceeding customer expectations every time.

Our values: Treat people as we would like to be treated ourselves – passionate about:

This means developing meaningful and respectful relationships and putting our customers first. We go the extra mile because we believe we can make a difference to people’s lives. And by doing the right thing for our customers, looking after them and giving them excellent service, we’re doing the right thing for the Specsavers brand, too.

Without the partnership, we would not be the business we are today. We are committed to providing store partners with clear strategic direction and first-class business support so that they can deliver the very best service to our customers. The Specsavers joint venture partnership is based on mutual trust and understanding, values that also underpin the way we work with our colleagues and suppliers.

To make sure our stores have the best possible support, we’re continuing to invest in our people, our stores and our infrastructure. It’s an approach that’s always benefited our business, bringing us more customers, more stores and a bigger market share year after year. By setting our people up for success, giving them the scope to develop and make the right decisions, we believe we will continue to grow.

Specsavers is about more than just selling glasses, hearing aids and contact lenses. It is about changing lives – on our doorstep and further afield – for the better. We make sure we give something back to the communities we work in, wherever we are in the world. Our offices, stores and manufacturing sites raise money as well as giving their time to support a huge variety of causes, charities and community initiatives.

We cultivate your expertise

We actively encourage you to develop your career within Specsavers. That’s why one of the first things we’ll do when you join us is to create a personal development plan that fits with your strengths and gives you a clear idea of how you’re going to achieve your ambitions. You’ll also have access to a range of learning and development tools that provides a flexible online approach to learning, ranging from infographic quick tips and webinars to practical, face to face workshops.

We power your career

Whatever stage you’re at in your career, we offer an attractive path. We’ve got opportunities going all the way to Australia or you can build your own business. With Specsavers, you’ll have a position at a market-leading company with an impressive market share.

At Specsavers, everybody is somebody

We recognise the benefits of embracing a diverse and inclusive workforce, in terms of better business performance, more engaged employees, enhanced employer brand and greater innovation. We believe diversity and inclusion are key to achieving our long-term goals, ensuring we have the right people in the right place at the right time.

Read more about our diversity and inclusion focus here

Rewards and benefits

We believe in rewarding our people for their hard work so have a great mix of benefits and opportunities for you to give you the recognition you deserve. See more below:

Store benefits

Our store directors are free to agree with you the reward and benefits package that is right for you and right for their business.
Store benefits

Support office benefits

As a global and successful business, we’re able to offer a range of highly attractive benefits in all our support office locations.
Support office benefits

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COVID-19 - Information for candidates
What we are doing to care for each other during the coronavirus outbreak

The safety and wellbeing of our colleagues, candidates and customers is our first priority.  Given the evolving COVID-19 situation, we want you to know that we are taking this situation very seriously and ensuring we are taking appropriate steps to look after each other.

We are carefully monitoring the situation and adjusting our ways of working in accordance with government advice. As a consequence of the situation we have made the difficult decision to pause some of our recruitment activity until further notice. We do still have some active vacancies online but we will, of course, take the necessary precautions to ensure the safety of our candidates and colleagues. This means that any interviews scheduled will be conducted via phone or using virtual meeting facilities – your recruiter will guide you through the process. 

We continue to take a proactive approach to protect both candidates and our colleagues, and we thank you for your understanding.