Manager, Strategic Business Development
CurrentBusiness Development: Maintain awareness of new program updates from all supporting departments to facilitate discussions with field team stakeholders, provide support and partner with go-to-market teams on rollout, create sales decks for the field teams to utilize in development conversations with potential franchisees, work cross functionally with Communications Team to develop and roll out campaigns, create weekly new business dev one-pager for International President to be shared with Leadership Team covering strategy & development, brand marketing & culinary, operations & support, legal and supply chain. Lead and track weekly business development call with department heads providing updates and direction, work closely with Legal to track new business development, including franchise agreements, trademark agreements, etc. Serves as a liaison to domestic public relations and development for International business & strategy.Database Management (Franchise Relationship Manager): Enter, qualify, and distribute leads to database, monitor performance, drive leads to become opportunities to effectively sell more franchises, actively try to identify areas of improvement and conceptualize methods on how to be more efficient, assist in the improvement, integration, and automation of tools designed to support performance management.Analytics: Develop dashboards and metrics around new business development, analyze large sets of data to identify trends, commonalities, and areas of opportunity across the regions globally (LATAM, EUMEA, ASIA), apply strong analytical reasoning to understand end user requirements and transform them into more opportunities to purchase brands globally. Identify factors in new and continuing business intelligence.Finance & Misc.: Collaborate across teams to generate strategic direction, ideas, analysis, and research in support of business development, connect efforts and results in the P&L, foster new project management skills and acumen.