Franchise Manager - Lichtenburg, South Africa - Kencorp

    Kencorp
    Kencorp Lichtenburg, South Africa

    Found in: Job Placements ZA C2 - 1 week ago

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    Description

    Fast Food Franchise requires Franchise Manager in the Richards bay /Ulundi area:

    Responsibilities

    • Managing a portfolio of restaurants
    • Driving sustainability, sales, and profitability of sites
    • Assist with the development and implementation of Franchisee specific business plans and budgets
    • Driving compliance in line with Franchise Agreements
    • Interpret monthly management accounts, benchmark, and suggest corrective actions where necessary.
    • Signing off project plans and executing restaurant revamps
    • Protect brand integrity via implementation and measurement of Standards of Operations Programs
    • Identify and communicate formal training needs to the training department for training intervention.
    • Identify in-store training needs and implement on-the-job training interventions and coaching.
    • Assist franchisees in selecting and formulating locality marketing strategies in order to increase brand awareness and grow their business turnovers.
    • Ensure implementation of national marketing campaigns.
    • Enforce correct use of all supporting elements such as point of sale, premiums
    • Act as brand custodian and ensure brand integrity is protected at all times via adherence to all requirements across key functions namely, Operations, Development, HR, Training, and Marketing
    • Lease and rental negotiations with different property groups for various sites
    • Monitor Turnover Performance, Achieve budgeted LOL growth per FM region, Achieve Budgeted turnover, LSM plan executed as per regional plan, and actively drive Brands Marketing strategy
    • Financial presentations to the Management Team and the Franchisee network
    • Customer Service, Weekly calls, Monthly feedback on restaurants performance, one on ones with individual franchisees (outside required Ops calls)
    • Drive franchisee attendance and participation at all regional meetings
    • Expense Budget, Accommodation expenses in line with Budget, Traveling expenses in line with budget, Show Expense control initiative
    • Operations, archive all budgeted revamps for FM Region,
    • Active participation in FM incentives
    • Achieve restaurant targeted Training Status as per Brand requirement
    • Regional Operations reviews, Health Regulations, Customer Complaints, and Leadership and teamwork
    • Operations Campaign, Campaigned Actively Managed and Actively manage poor performing restaurants
    • Drive Business profitability for franchisees and 100 % achievement of all store targets

    Requirements

    • Business Diploma + Grade 12
    • 3 years of multi-store experience in the Restaurant Industry as an Area/Regional/Franchise Manager
    • Advanced Excel skills
    • 5 years experience in GAAP/Micros
    • 5 years of experience in Food Cost control, Labour control, Budgets, Expenses, and sales targets
    • 5 years of Restaurant / Fast Food General Manager experience
    • Must be able to travel daily
    • Only SA citizens will be considered