President

Candidate: #164641
Current Position: President
Industry: Retail, QSR, Other
Experience: 20+ years in Franchise and Retail
Relocation: Open

Scope:

This top-tier Corporate and Franchise President within Big Box and QSR retail industries has 20+ years of experience in Franchise structure, Brand awareness, commercial development, and operational growth. We highly recommend that you look at their full profile to gain more insight into this candidate’s background.

Accomplishments:

• Served as liaison for brand to attract new franchisees at industry events, designing recruitment materials and directing digital adoption across websites and social media

• Onboarding and facilitating successful franchisee performance via new openings, operational overviews, training programs, marketing initiatives, and quality / service checks.

• Advancing results via business planning, forecasting, analysis, and recommendations.

• Training, motivating, and developing management, and leading P&L review to grow sales and profits

• Recruiting and evaluating franchise development agreements from prospecting and discovery, through to due diligence, underwriting, negotiation, and agreements, including FTC / Registration compliance

• Achieved #1 opening performance and held position for 7 consecutive months. Maintained Top 5 ranking for 5 consecutive years.

• Led retail, development, and strategic planning for 5+ departments supporting 3,500+ stores across the US, Italy, Australia, Ireland, Taiwan, Chile, Guam, and Brazil (100+ franchise groups in 13+ countries) generating over $1 billion / yr. in system revenue

• Led brand protection, EBITDA contribution, internal documentation, communication, compliance, marketing, product, field support and franchise legal department.

• Built franchise corporate department and franchise field operations to support the 3500+ locations. Structure remained in place for 15+ years.

• Developed IT call center supporting 1000+ domestic locations that was further implemented on the corporate call center side.

• Consulted with 19+ franchise groups in NJ, NY, DC, PA, IN, WS, MI, MD, MN, and IA on site development, marketing, product purchasing, customer acquisition procedures, finance, operational support, and cash flow analysis.

Haskel Thompson & Associates:

Since our founding in 1979, we have been the go-to recruiting firm within the Retail, QSR, CPG, Private Equity, and Petroleum industries to bring your organization top-tier talent. With our proprietary and extensive vetting process, you can rest assured that you will be adding highly educated, knowledgeable, and qualified candidates to help grow your organization.
For more information about this candidate, please contact Phalynn Meeds at 239-302-3571 or Phalynn@haskelthompson.com