Senior Manager, Investment Optimization & Standards (Restaurants)

TN United Kingdom; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the restaurant industry seeks a Senior Manager for Investment Optimization & Standards in London. This role involves collaborating with markets to enhance capital investments in restaurant development, ensuring alignment with brand standards. The successful candidate will lead initiatives, develop tools, and provide guidance across various teams, playing a crucial role in optimizing restaurant solutions.

Qualifications

• Experience managing development projects firsthand.
• Proven experience in development with broad management knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Lead initiatives to enhance value and optimize capital investments.
• Develop and maintain global tools for strategies and activities.
• Provide guidance and training to market resources.

Skills

Project Management

Collaboration

Leadership

Analytical Skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in restaurant development

Bachelor’s degree in construction

Bachelor’s degree in architecture

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Bachelor’s degree in quantity surveying

Job description

Senior Manager, Investment Optimization & Standards (Restaurants), London

This role focuses on collaborating with markets to optimize capital investments in restaurant development, supporting opening and reinvestment plans aligned with brand standards. The successful candidate will work closely with the Global Restaurant Development & Design Team and other company organizations, reporting to the Senior Director of Global Development, Investment Optimization & Standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead initiatives with markets to enhance value and optimize capital investments in restaurant development and construction.
• Partner with markets, segments, third parties, and other functions to support prototyping and applying optimized restaurant solutions.
• Develop and maintain global tools (e.g., building right-sizing calculator) to inform strategies and activities.
• Standardize and scale solutions beneficial to market conditions.
• Collaborate with Global Strategic Sourcing Services to identify sourcing opportunities for standardized solutions.
• Provide guidance, benchmarking, best practices, and training to market resources and functions.
• Support multidisciplinary projects by providing insights and input to key stakeholders across the organization.

Attributes

• Effective collaborator with multi-disciplinary teams and diverse cultures.
• Strong project management and leadership skills to deliver complex projects confidently and influence without authority.
• Ability to set frameworks for work delivery and meet high-quality deadlines.
• Understanding of other functions' challenges to maximize efficiency in restaurant decisions.
• Self-starter with a strong work ethic, passionate and enthusiastic about working at McDonald's.
• Global mindset for identifying challenges and developing relevant solutions.
• Experience managing development projects firsthand.
• Good understanding of McDonald's business and other functions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in restaurant development, construction, architecture, engineering, quantity surveying, or related fields.
• Proven experience in development, with broad management knowledge across multiple functional areas of an international multi-site operator, including development, construction, engineering, and real estate.
• Experience in development cost analysis to evaluate profitability and optimize capital investments.

Additional Information

At McDonald’s, we value diversity and inclusion, embracing people from all walks of life. We are committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone can be their authentic selves, which helps us serve our customers better. We are dedicated to fighting inequality, injustice, and discrimination, and recognize our role in community development by helping develop skills and aspirations for all.