Franchise Business Consultant

Little Caesar Enterprises Inc.; Florida; Ibrido; USD 85.000 - 120.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid holidays and PTO

Flexible spending accounts

Disability and adoption benefits

Access to sports events

Descrizione del lavoro

Ilitch Sports + Entertainment is seeking a business consultant to support franchise owners and candidates across assigned markets. You will guide operations, marketing, and financial performance, while ensuring compliance with company standards and best practices.

Expected travel involves visiting stores to drive growth, lead training, and optimize store performance. Strong collaboration with corporate teams and ability to analyze financial data are essential for success.

Competenze

• Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Four years previous restaurant/retail management experience.
• Strong relationship, team building and communication (written and verbal) skills.
• Demonstrated planning, analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Basic proficiency with the MS Office Suite (notably MS Word, MS Excel, and MS PowerPoint).

Mansioni

• Serve as a business consultant to franchise owners or candidates applying to become franchisees.
• Provide tools, counsel, and advise franchisees in all aspects of their business and store operations.
• Improve sales trends and profitability through operational excellence and company programs.
• Travel to franchise locations to support market development and ongoing reviews.
• Conduct onsite business reviews and operational evaluations to meet quality standards.

Conoscenze

Relationship building

Communication

Team leadership

Analytical thinking

Planning

Formazione

Bachelor’s degree in business/marketing

Strumenti

MS Word

MS Excel

MS PowerPoint

Descrizione del lavoro

Your Mission

Serves as a business consultant to assigned franchise owners (franchisees), or candidates applying to become franchisees, to assist in the achievement of operational excellence.

Maintains an ongoing liaison between the company and franchisees or candidates requesting consideration to become a franchisee with area of responsibility.

Provide tools, counsel, and advises either directly or through functional experts, to franchisees in all aspects of their business and store operations, including food and labor cost control; expense control; overall financial analysis; safety and sanitation; product quality control; training; customer relations; marketing; development; and supply chain.

Successful execution of the job’s responsibilities will be reflected in improving sales trends, increasing franchisee and corporate profitability, acceptable and improving operational execution, franchisee participation in corporate programs and similar demonstrations of overall business improvement and customer service.

How You’ll Make an Impact

Serves as liaison between corporate departments and franchise owner and candidates requesting consideration to become franchisees for assigned markets.

Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with corporate departments such as company operations, marketing, real estate, finance/accounting and human resources, to ensure integration of business functions.

Provides support to franchisees and candidates requesting consideration to become franchisees in site development, training, operations, marketing, financial services, and overall understanding of the company.

Oversees and reports on any changes to the market conditions of assigned region, such as, site selection, competition, activities of store LSM and nearby competitors, and external changes (traffic, urban area, etc.). Makes recommendations to improve upon any change in the market condition.

Assists franchisees and candidates requesting consideration to become franchisees, in reviewing business plans. Analyzes and interprets financial data to identify areas of improvement or development and to assess the effectiveness of operations development.

Provides effective training and communications to franchisees and their staff, on an ongoing basis, to help support customer satisfaction and communicates with candidates requesting consideration to become a franchisee on a regular basis.

Guides and enables franchisees on consistently meeting or exceeding all company quality standards by conducting onsite business reviews and operational evaluations.

Make recommendations to improve franchise overall success.

Provides the appropriate tools as necessary to the franchisees to promptly resolve out-of-specification issues.

Continuously guides the franchisee through providing follow-up visit reports documenting highlights of operations, areas of opportunity for improvement and recommendations as necessary.

Assists franchisees in the implementation and review of all company related training programs. Maintains appropriate documentation for all assigned franchisees and candidates requesting consideration to become franchisees.

Oversee and assists franchisees in coordinating the activities of re-opening, new store grand openings, remodeling, relocating, closing, or operating of a store and informs inquirers of the company procedures.

Maintains regular communication with Director to appraise of all pertinent issues.

Travel to and within area of support to fully understand market dynamics, isolate new development opportunities, and assist current franchises with their specific needs.

Provides leadership and direction to colleagues. Encourages a high level of team spirit and sets a positive example for colleagues and recruits.

Assists with training, post-opening training and ongoing training programs as needed. Aids in developing materials and making presentation at special meetings as requested.

Assists as needed the sourcing/purchasing, quality assurance, and distribution teams in monitoring product availability, quality, consistency, and distribution efficiencies.

Performs other franchise support or recruiting activities as required.

Who You Are

Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing or related field, or equivalent work experience.

Four years previous restaurant/retail management experience.

Strong relationship, team building and communication (written and verbal) skills.

Demonstrated planning, analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.

Basic proficiency with the MS Office Suite (notably MS Word, MS Excel, and MS PowerPoint).

Ability to travel by airplane and automobile to visit franchisees and inquirers.

Requires mode of transportation to travel locally to office, stores, and/or other company locations.

Ability to lift and move up to 55 pounds and the ability to reach and move items from as high as six (6) feet and as low as six (6) inches off the ground.

Ability to understand direction, instructions, and product specifications.

Preferred Knowledge, skills, and abilities

Little Caesars operation experience (a certified little Caesars training manager or region manager with a proven record of profitability).

Multi-unit management experience.

Point of Sale system experience.

Knowledge of legal and other issues related to franchising.

Where You’ll Work

Travel away from home up to 50% of the time, usually travelling alone and may work extended workweeks due to distance of working location or other business needs.

Works in-store as required assisting, training, demonstrating, or advising.

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All items listed above are illustrative and not comprehensive.

They are not contractual in nature and are subject to change at the discretion of Little Caesars Enterprises Inc.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Little Caesar Enterprises, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to that individual’s race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The Company will strive to provide reasonable accommodations to permit qualified applicants who have a need for an accommodation to participate in the hiring process (e.g., accommodations for a job interview) if so requested.

This company participates in E-Verify.

E-Verify and Right to Work.

Company Information

At Little Caesars® Pizza and Blue Line Foodservice Distribution ®, you’re part of a dynamic team in the pizza business.

Known for innovation and home of the exclusive Pizza Portal® pickup, Little Caesars is an international brand with a household name – a global company with family-owned restaurants in your neighborhood.

Blue Line® sources and delivers ingredients to neighborhoods throughout the U.S. so we can make our famous Hot-N-Ready® pizzas, Crazy Bread®, Caesar Wings®, and more, fulfilling our customer promise.

Little Caesars Fundraising proudly helps raise millions of dollars for thousands of schools, churches, sports teams, and other nonprofit organizations.

Backed by the global pizza brand, customers of Little Caesars Fundraising enjoy products they can make at home or pick up in stores.

Our colleagues are the heart and soul of the business – whether you work in the stores, one of our warehouses, the corporate office, or your home office, Little Caesars, Blue Line and Little Caesars Fundraising colleagues work together to make a big impact in communities around the world.

Benefits

• Full time colleagues qualify for a variety of benefits, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) with company match, paid holidays and paid time off, legal and counseling services, flexible spending accounts, disability and adoption benefits, and more.
• Colleagues also enjoy the perks of being associated with professional sports teams and have access to events at Little Caesars Arena and Comerica Park in our hometown of Detroit, Michigan.