Franchisee Regional Manager (North West Area)
Head Office - Wonderfield Group
Contract: Full Time
Salary: 50,000
Contracted Hours: 40
The Wonderfield Group has recently been purchased by Zensho Holdings, the leading food service company in Japan with a market cap of $5.5b and whose aim is to become the worlds largest food company, a position from which we can eradicate hunger and poverty from around the globe. We operate restaurants, factories, and thousands of sushi kiosks and have recently built a successful cut fruit business, Snowfruit. Combining this with the three businesses previously owned by Zensho, AFC, Sushi Circle and Sushi Take, results in annual sales of $2.5b and Ebitda in excess of $140m a year with an ambitious growth trajectory.
Knowledge and experience of working with franchise models
·Previous experience in a multi-site role within Operations, having preferably worked in hospitality or retail
· Ability to utilise available data to inform decision making and drive performance
· Experience of remote leadership at scale – leading and line managing across multiple sites/spans of control
· Confident in ability to influence their team, the Snowfox Support team and our retail partners
· Demonstrable organisation skills and ability to plan for the short, mid and long term
· Ability to implement successfully new business initiatives thoroughly and successfully
· Fully confident with financials and systems with an ability to demonstrate a thorough commercial understanding of multi site management.
· Experience in developing talent and succession
This role will require travel across all sites therefore we are looking for candidates with a valid driving licence and vehicle and live within the locations advertised.
Place of Work: Field Based/Remote (Covering North West Region– Manchester, Liverpool and surrounding areas )
To lead a Region of circa 25 franchised kiosks to deliver exceptional standards against our key business metrics consisting of People, Customer, Sales and Profit. The RM will ensure the effective development and implementation of the Regional strategic business plan, supporting the Company vision and purpose through effective execution of the Wonderfield Retail Operating Model. The region will comprise of a blend of corporately owned and franchised sites, and you will be responsible for driving the financial performance of both.
· Inspirational leader in supporting our franchise partners, creating a unified, Wonderfield values led culture which sets the region up for success
· Through their leadership, creates a culture that’s forward looking, planned and pragmatic and enables direct reports and team members to thrive and support the delivery of our Retail Operating Model
· Build and nurture a Regional culture that ensures team members are motivated, listened to and engaged
· Full accountability for the recruitment and retention of the very best talent in our corporately owned sites
· Accountable for the skills training and development plans of our corporate sites for KM population, and ensure the KS/TMs receive thorough training as our future KMs
· Creates personal development objectives that provide stretch and challenge and acts as a coach to their team
· Acts as a role model to their team and the broader business
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