30 years ago, Dr. Barnes founded Eyemart Express to deliver everything a patient needs. It started with one friendly shop in Appleton, WI, and has since expanded to over 245 stores in 42 states. Today, Eyemart Express is celebrated for promptly delivering quality eyewear at great prices while maintaining great relationships with optometrists and local communities. We’re not like everyone else—with local labs in stores, eye exams, and same-day delivery on glasses—our customers never miss a moment. Now, you can join one of the nation’s top optical retailers and improve lives by helping people see better.
The Project Coordinator supports senior leadership by coordinating key initiatives, tracking project progress, and ensuring priorities move forward efficiently. This role serves as an organizational hub for executive-led projects, helping align teams, manage timelines, and maintain clear communication across departments. The position focuses on bringing structure, visibility, and follow-through to leadership initiatives so teams can execute effectively and strategic priorities stay on track.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as a coordination point between departments involved in strategic initiatives.
- Schedule and facilitate project meetings, ensuring clear agendas and follow-up actions.
- Help ensure alignment and communication across stakeholders.
- Monitors project progress and proactively identify risks, barriers, and opportunities.
- Coordinate timelines, tasks, and deliverables for executive-level initiatives and cross-functional projects.
- Track project progress and ensure deadlines and milestones are met.
- Maintain project documentation, meeting notes, and action item tracking.
- Serves as a central point of coordination for complex initiatives involving multiple teams.
- Develop and maintain simple project trackers, dashboards, or status reports.
- Monitor initiative progress and flag risks or delays to leadership.
- Coordinates and support quarterly business leader report out meetings
- Assist in improving project coordination processes, tools, and workflows.
- Support the development of consistent project management practices across initiatives.
- Prepare presentations, summaries, and materials for leadership meetings.
- Assist in gathering updates and insights from teams to inform executive discussions.
Requirements:
- Four years of high-level administrative experience including experience coordinating events and/or projects
- Demonstrated ability to provide quality customer service in an office environment
- Effective interpersonal skills to work with vendors, subject matter experts, business partners and customers
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent organizational skills, including the ability to handle multiple tasks simultaneously and meet tight deadlines
- Ability to perform detailed work
- Ability to work cross-functionally with marketing, operations, and external partners.
- Ability to work with confidential financial and operational information
- Proficient with word processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications
- Experience supporting executive teams or senior leaders.
- Experience coordinating cross-functional teams or initiatives.
Benefits:
- Vision Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Matching 401(k)
- Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
- Life Insurance
- Fully paid benefits to maintain licensing requirements and opportunities for advancement
At Eyemart Express, we are dedicated to excellence in everything we do. We understand the importance of work-life balance and strive to be as flexible as possible with scheduling needs to ensure our team members can achieve harmony between work and personal life.
VSP Vision is an equal opportunity employer and gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to age, gender, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or protected veteran status. We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.
