Area Coach

Taco Bell; Angels Camp (CA); On-site; USD 112,000 - 143,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading quick service restaurant as an Area Coach, responsible for driving success across multiple locations in California. This role emphasizes operational excellence, team development, and strategic growth. Ideal candidates have significant experience in high-volume environments and excel in a leadership capacity. Enjoy competitive pay, growth opportunities, and a commitment to promote from within.

Benefits

Commitment to promote from within

Training and mentorship programs

Live Más scholarship opportunities

Competitive Pay

Medical benefits after eligibility

401K plan with 4% match

Qualifications

• Three to five years of successful, high sales volume, operational management experience in the Quick Service Restaurant industry.
• Must have a Valid Driver's License and maintain a good driving record.
• Exceptional team building capability and dynamic leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Drive operational excellence across multiple restaurant locations.
• Empower and support Restaurant Managers through impactful training and coaching.
• Analyze sales, labor, and inventory to achieve margin and sales growth targets.

Skills

Team Building

Operational Management

Conflict Resolution

Analytical Skills

Education

AA/undergraduate degree or equivalent industry experience

Job description

Taco Bell Area Coach - Summit Franchise Management Corp.

Salary Range: $112,495-$142,495 annually

Live Más with a career at Taco Bell! If you want to build a great career while providing fast, fun, and friendly service to our customers, Taco Bell is the perfect place to learn, grow and succeed!

Work-Hard, Play-Hard, We offer the following:

• A commitment to promote from within
• Training and mentorship programs
• Live Más scholarship opportunities
• Reward and recognition culture
• Competitive Pay
• Bonus potential is based on percentage of restaurants controllable profit
• Eligibility to accrue paid vacation and sick time
• Medical benefits after meeting eligibility requirements
• 401K plan with 4% match after meeting eligibility requirements

About the Job:

As an Area Coach, you will be at the helm of 4-7 dynamic corporate locations, driving success across restaurants with total sales averaging $10-$12M+. You will lead the charge in operational excellence, empowering and supporting Restaurant Managers through impactful training and coaching. Your role involves setting ambitious goals, tackling challenges head-on, and enhancing processes to set new standards for our brand. With a strong focus on people, you will inspire and motivate Unit Level Management and their teams, ensuring recognition and mentorship are key parts of your leadership approach.

A successful Area Coach will:

Build People Capability

• Leverage culture and people capability to fuel brand performance
• Recruit and equip the best operators to deliver a great customer experience
• Lead by example - be a culture champion and live by Taco Bell MAS principles
• Leads performance management process for employees, including performance feedback, appraisals, training and development planning and due process in resolving workplace disputes

Deliver Consistent Customer Experience

• Drives customer-focused culture by serving as a role model and training managers to meet or exceed customer service standards
• Tracks, analyzes, and identifies root causes of customer complaints and leads management team to implement systematic solutions
• Periodically engages in restaurant audits in conjunction with RGMs to calibrate on performance standards and to provide an objective basis for performance feedback
• Ensures that food safety standards are met in each unit supervised through direct observation as well as follow-up on food safety audit results
• Monitors restaurant Speed with Service (SWS) performance and provides coaching to unit management teams to meet performance targets

Grow the Brand, Sales, and Profits

• Reviews and prioritizes store capital expenditure requests and establishes common vendor relationships where scale can be leveraged
• Ensures that facilities and equipment are maintained to Taco Bell standards; coordinates facility upgrades or equipment replacement
• Analyzes sales, labor, inventory and controllables on a continual basis and coaches on corrective action to meet or achieve margin and sales growth targets
• Partners with each Manager in the market to build sales over last year's sales achievement.
• Works with Restaurant General Managers to develop and deliver unit-specific Annual Operating Plans

Is this you? -The ideal Area Coach:

• Three to five years of successful, high sales volume, operational management experience in the Quick Service Restaurant industry or retail environment
• AA/undergraduate degree or equivalent industry experience
• At least 18 years of age
• Must have a Valid Driver's License and maintain a good driving record
• Exceptional team building capability, the ability to execute tasks and achieve results through others
• Dynamic, energetic, and positive leader, a self-starter, proactively driven to get things done and does the right thing for the business
• Exhibits an adaptable and resilient coaching style
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Strong interpersonal and conflict resolution skills
• Proficient in business math, accounting, and analytical/decision-making skills.
• Ability to improve restaurant performance based on P&L analysis
• Demonstrated history of workplace achievement in the selection, coaching and development of employees

"You are applying for work with a franchisee of Taco Bell, not Taco Bell Corp. or any of its affiliates. If hired, the franchisee will be your only employer. Franchisees are independent business owners who set their own wage and benefit programs that can vary among franchisees."