Director, Operations

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August 23

🐊 Florida – Remote

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⏰ Full Time

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⚙️ Operations

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Little Caesars Pizza

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B2C • Retail • Food and Beverage

Little Caesars Pizza is a renowned pizza chain known for its affordable and ready-to-eat pizza options, including the popular Hot-N-Ready pizzas. The company also offers Detroit-style deep-dish pizzas and various side items. It encourages entrepreneurship through franchising opportunities available both domestically and internationally. With a commitment to community involvement, Little Caesars operates initiatives like the Love Kitchen and a fundraising program. It provides employment opportunities ranging from restaurant positions to corporate and distribution jobs. Little Caesars emphasizes privacy and customer service throughout its operations.

10,000+ employees

Founded 1959

👥 B2C

🛒 Retail

💰 Private Equity Round on 2014-01

📋 Description

• In this role, you will perform as a business consultant to franchisees in assigned international markets. You will maintain an ongoing liaison between Little Caesars and franchisees to provide tools, counsel and advise 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: Serve as a liaison between corporate office departments and franchise owners in assigned markets. As such, establish and maintain effective working relationships with home office departments to ensure integration of business functions. Oversee franchise operations in assigned countries. Conduct store and operational evaluations to ensure company standards are consistently met or exceeded. Make recommendations to improve franchise overall success. Oversee re-opening, training, post-opening training and ongoing training programs as needed. Oversee and support franchisees staff during all new store openings. Coordinate development of annual cohesive marketing plan with franchisee and appropriate corporate staff to improve sales trends in each respective country. Oversee the development and implementation of store grand openings and ongoing marketing efforts. Conduct financial business reviews on an annual basis with each franchisee with the assistance of appropriate Finance staff. Travel to and within regions as required to fully understand market dynamics, isolate new development opportunities and assist current franchisees with their specific needs. Monitor and guide overall New Store development process in assigned market(s). Assist the Supply Chain functions (sourcing/purchasing, quality assurance and distribution) in monitoring product availability, quality, consistency and distribution efficiencies. Ensure all out-of-specification issues, in all areas, are resolved promptly. Write timely letters following market visits documenting highlights of operations and other business concerns and utilize an effective process to ensure follow-up and continuity in dealing with issues is addressed. Adhere to the corporate travel policy and effectively plan to travel to achieve goals, while maintaining expenses at budgeted levels. Assist Research and Development (R&D) in developing new products for International markets. Who You Are: • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in business related field, e.g. Finance, Accounting, Marketing or Legal. • Two (2) to four (4) years’ experience in a management position or equivalent experience. • Excellent verbal and written communication, interpersonal and persuasion skills. • Ability to travel extensively inside or outside of the United States. • Working knowledge of legal and other issues related to franchising. • Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills. • Demonstrated proficiency with the MS Office Suite (notably MS Word, MS Excel, and MS PowerPoint). • Ability to travel away from home up to 75% of the time, usually travelling alone and may work extended workweeks due to distance of working location or other business needs.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in business related field, e.g. Finance, Accounting, Marketing or Legal • Two (2) to four (4) years’ experience in a management position or equivalent experience • Excellent verbal and written communication, interpersonal and persuasion skills • Ability to travel extensively inside or outside of the United States • Working knowledge of legal and other issues related to franchising • Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills • Demonstrated proficiency with the MS Office Suite (notably MS Word, MS Excel, and MS PowerPoint) • Ability to travel away from home up to 75% of the time, usually travelling alone and may work extended workweeks due to distance of working location or other business needs

🏖️ Benefits

• 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 • access to events at Little Caesars Arena and Comerica Park in our hometown of Detroit, Michigan