Franchise Growth Advisor

BP Americas, Inc.; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 139,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401k matching

Paid time off

Job summary

BP Americas, Inc. is seeking a role focused on scaling franchise growth through data-driven modeling, process simplification, and disciplined operations.

You will own operating rhythms, build economic models, and inform investment decisions with measurable outcomes across the franchise development funnel. The role emphasizes collaboration across finance, strategy, and field teams, with a hybrid office/remote work arrangement and a strong emphasis on delivering clear, timely insights to

Qualifications

• Analytical capability with experience in franchise or convenience retail economics.
• Ability to synthesize data into clear insights and actionable recommendations.
• Execution and project management discipline with multi-workstream oversight.
• Strong organizational skills and bias toward closure.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain franchise economic models to inform growth investments.
• Support scenario analysis for market entry decisions and deal design.
• Deliver inputs for leadership reviews linking data to action.
• Design scalable processes and improve development workflows.
• Track franchise performance and surface risks and trends.
• Apply continuous-improvement to keep the franchise model disciplined.

Skills

Franchise economics

Data analysis

Project management

Synthesis of data

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Job Family Group: Retail Group Job Description

You will play a critical role in enabling bp's franchise growth engine -- the systems, processes, and analytical rigor that turn strategic ambition into real results on the ground. This is not a back-office coordination role. You will own the operating rhythm that keeps franchise expansion moving: building the models that inform investment decisions, designing the processes that reduce friction, and driving the simplification of systems and ways of working so the business can scale faster with less complexity. You will work across teams to ensure commitments become outcomes, decisions are backed by data, and the franchise growth machine operates with discipline and clarity.

Key Accountabilities

• Analytics, modeling, and growth enablement Build and maintain franchise economic models that directly inform where and how bp invests in growth
• Support scenario analysis for deal structures, market entry decisions, and offer design
• Deliver clear, insightful inputs for leadership reviews that connect data to action
• Process design, simplification, and system enhancement Identify inefficiencies, redundancies, and friction points across franchise development workflows and propose practical solutions
• Design and implement simplified, scalable processes that reduce cycle time and improve consistency across the development funnel
• Drive enhancements to the tools, templates, and systems the team uses daily -- making it easier to track progress, surface risks, and maintain accountability
• Champion a continuous improvement mentality, ensuring processes evolve as the franchise model matures
• Project management discipline Implement and reinforce simple, effective project management practices: Clear workplans Defined milestones and deliverables Consistent status tracking Identify delays, risks, and dependencies early and raise when needed
• Franchise development operations Track opportunities through the development funnel with clear awareness of bottlenecks, conversion, and performance Ensure standard processes are documented, adopted, and improved over time Own the operational backbone that allows the team to move from opportunity identification to deal execution with speed and discipline
• Contract & disclosure support Support data gathering and validation for disclosure inputs Maintain alignment across deal assumptions so the commercial model and contractual commitments stay connected
• Performance tracking & insights Performance Tracking and Insights: Monitor franchise performance against expectations and surface key drivers, variances, and trends Turn performance data into actionable insight that helps leadership make better decisions faster Actively monitor competitive trends and ensure effectiveness of the offer to stand up against the market

Experience & Qualifications

• Analytical capability
• Experience in franchise and/or convenience retail economics
• Working knowledge of contract structures, lifecycle economics, and what makes a franchise offer commercially compelling
• Ability to synthesize data into clear insights
• Execution & project management
• Strong organizational and tracking discipline
• Ability to manage multiple workstreams with competing priorities
• Meticulous with a bias toward closure and follow-through
• Influence & coordination
• Ability to work across teams without authority
• Confident in holding peers accountable to timelines and deliverables
• Clear and structured communicator

Key Partners

• Franchise leadership and strategy teams
• Network planning, finance, data managers, and commercial performance partners
• Category management, merchandising, procurement, digital, loyalty, marketing and operational teams supporting franchise enablement
• Field and business development leaders as strategic collaborators (not reporting line)

Key Responsibilities and Operations

You’ll join a team focused on scaling growth the right way—commercially sound, system‑enabled, and resilient across cycles.

Why join us

At bp, we support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and ambitious environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly. There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are meaningful, so we offer benefits ( https://exploreyourbenefits.com/landing.html) to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits can include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, and excellent retirement benefits, among others! We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

How much do we pay (Base)? $75,000 - $139,000 *Note that the pay range listed for this position is a genuinely expected and reasonable estimate of the range of possible base compensation at the time of posting. This position offers paid vacation depending on your years of relevant industry experience and will range from 120 – 240 hours of vacation per year for full times employees (60 - 240 hours of vacation per year for part time employees). You will also be eligible for 9 paid holidays per year and 2 personal choice holidays. You may learn more about how we calculate paid vacation and view our generous vacation and holiday schedules at benefits@bp. Bp has a parental leave policy as well, which offers up to 8 weeks’ paid leave for the birth or adoption of a child. Learn more at benefits@bp. We offer a reward package to enable your work to fit with your life. These offerings include a discretionary annual bonus program, long-term incentive program, and generous retirement benefits that include a 401k matching program. These benefits may include a pension for eligible employees. You may learn more about our generous benefits at benefits@bp. As part of bp’s wellbeing package, bp offers access to health, vision, and dental insurance, as well as life and Short-Term Disability and Long-Term Disability. You may learn more about our generous benefits at benefits@bp.

Travel Requirement: No travel is expected with this role Relocation Assistance: This role is eligible for relocation within country Remote Type: This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills

• Agility core practices
• Agility core practices
• Agreements and negotiations
• Analytical Thinking
• Business Acumen
• Business process improvement
• Commercial Acumen
• Communication
• Conflict Management
• Continuous Improvement
• Continuous Learning
• Creativity and Innovation
• customer and competitor understanding
• Customer centric thinking
• Customer data knowledge
• Data Analysis
• Data visualization and interpretation
• Decision Making
• Digital Collaboration
• Digital Fluency
• Industry knowledge and advocacy
• Integrated pricing
• Leading transformation, market
• Negotiation planning and preparation
• {+ 13 more}

Legal Disclaimer

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, socioeconomic status, neurodiversity/neurocognitive functioning, veteran status or disability status. Individuals with an accessibility need may request an adjustment/accommodation related to bp’s recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.). If you would like to request an adjustment/accommodation related to the recruitment process, please contact us. If you are selected for a position and depending on your role, your employment may be contingent upon adherence to local policy. This may include pre-placement drug screening, medical review of physical fitness for the role, and background checks.

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