Franchise Development Manager

TN United Kingdom; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 54,000; Full time

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Franchise Development Manager, Nottingham

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Cole & Yates Recruitment Ltd

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Nottingham, United Kingdom

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Other

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Yes

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Posted:

26.04.2025

Expiry Date:

10.06.2025

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Job Description

We are seeking a Franchise Development Manager for a Grounds Maintenance company that works across a wide number of sectors from over 40 locations within the UK, employs over 600 staff and delivers a grounds maintenance service to 10’000+ sites a year.

On offer is a salary of between £52,000 and £54,000 a year, a bonus of £5,000 for achieving set targets (pro-rata for 2025) with the opportunity to earn £1,000 for each additional £200,000 achieved above the territory sales target (uncapped), a company car or car allowance, laptop, mobile phone allowance of £30 per month and a holiday allowance of 24 days which includes a day off for your birthday.

As the Franchise Development Manager, you will be joining an experienced team who support the continued growth and business development of both the company franchise and the franchisee network assisting in the day-to-day business development and management of the franchisee network.This role will include analysing the sales processes and financial performance of the franchisees to advise, motivate and train the franchise owners and their staff to help grow their businesses.This will involve monitoring KPI’s, producing reports and plans to share with both the franchisees and wider business and will include supporting the franchise network by spending 80% of the working week travelling across an area that covers from South Birmingham to Crewe, across to Nottingham and from there to Norfolk.

To be considered you will need to have grounds maintenance and/or landscape services experience, be both contract and commercially aware with strong business development skills and an understanding of operational management.This opportunity would suit people who have worked within a senior Operations, Contracts, Business Development, Sales, Site or Regional Management role for a grounds maintenance or landscape services company or who have owned a Grounds Maintenance company.

As the Franchise Development Manager, you will be:

• Acting as the link between franchise business owners and Head Office.
  
• Ensuring your allocated franchisees are operating their businesses in the correct manner.
  
• Supporting the continued growth and business development of the company’s franchisee and franchise network.
  
• Working alongside your franchise development colleagues, assisting in the day to day business development and management of franchisees.
  
• Analysing the sales processes and financial performance of the franchisees to advise, motivate and train franchise owners and their teams to help grow their businesses.
  
• Helping your network to continue to grow their business. This will involve monitoring KPI’s, producing reports and sharing these reports and information with the wider business.
  
• Helping your franchisee network to prepare for and as needed accompany them to appointments with prospective customers.
  
• Providing in-house training on systems (including CRM) to promote efficiency and productivity.
  
• Training and mentoring your franchisees, supporting field training, working and setting business plans, identifying blockages to business growth, developing bespoke strategies to achieve business growth and increased profitability, monitoring and ensuring plans are followed and providing advice, guidance and information when dealing with issues.
  

Requirements

To be considered as the Franchise Development Manager you are going to need:

• Grounds Maintenance and/or Landscape Services experience.Please note that if you do not have this you can not be considered for this job opportunity as it is a must have from the hiring company and is not negotiable.
  
• To have worked within a senior Operations, Contracts, Business Development, Sales, Site or Regional Management role or owned your own Grounds Maintenance company.
  
• To be living within the area that the role covers – Birmingham up to Crewe across to Nottingham and to Norfolk and be happy to spend 80% of your working week on the road.
  

Benefits

On offer for the successful Franchise Development Manager is:

• A salary of up to £54,000 per year.
  
• An objectives-based bonus scheme of up to £5000.00 per year and the opportunity to earn in excess of this based on the sales achieved within your area.
  
• Company Car or Car Allowance.
  
• A £30 a month mobile phone allowance.
  
• Laptop.
  
• Pension Scheme.
  
• 23 Days Holiday plus day off for Birthday.
  
• Company Events.
  

Requirements
To be considered as the Franchise Development Manager you are going to need: Grounds Maintenance and/or Landscape Services experience. Please note that if you do not have this you can not be considered for this job opportunity as it is a must have from the hiring company and is not negotiable. To have worked within a senior Operations, Contracts, Business Development, Sales, Site or Regional Management role or owned your own Grounds Maintenance company. To be living within the area that the role covers – Birmingham up to Crewe across to Nottingham and to Norfolk and be happy to spend 80% of your working week on the road.