Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Huntington Learning Center is an educational company seeking a Director of Franchise Operations to oversee a team of Franchise Business Consultants. The main goal of this role is to drive franchise revenue and profitability while ensuring a customer-centric focus on improving student results.
Responsibilities
- Set and achieve financial goals for the department with full P & L responsibility
- Drive customer centric focus on continually improving student results
- Deliver world class franchisee profitability through revenue gains and cost savings
- Develop the overall departmental business plan including budgets and KPI goals on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis; provide updates to the management team on performance
- Partner with the marketing department to analyze and improve customer lead generation
- Champion corporate initiatives with the franchise community
- Attend and participate, where appropriate, In local market franchise advertising cooperative meetings
- Act as an interdepartmental liaison
- Conduct field visits with FBC's and franchisees to improve profitability, KPIs and service delivery
- Set goals and develop quarterly, monthly and weekly actions plans with each FBC to meet them; provide on-going feedback to improve performance in meeting goals
- Partner with FBCs and their franchisees to meet marketing objectives
- Interview, hire and train all new FBC's
- Develop skill set with FBC's through weekly team calls, quarterly team meetings and additional follow up
- Help every member of the system work toward a growth mindset culture
- Lead the Annual Convention and periodic regionals and local area meetings
- Manage the Franchisee Advisory Council
- Track record of delivering top financial performance
- Demonstrate excellence in leadership
- Strong communication skills to lead team trainings and internal meetings, write company- write messages and speak publicly to large audiences
- Analytical approach to problem solving
Skills
- 4 Year Degree
- 5 to 10 years of Multi-unit experience
- Excellent management and leadership
- Effective ability to develop employees and give feedback
- High energy level
- Proficient in Microsoft Office, Excel and Sharepoint
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Adept presentation, training and team building skills
- Effective organizational and follow up skills
- Detail oriented
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