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Spur Corporation is a growing multi-brand restaurant franchisor, headquartered in Cape Town. The group currently has eight brands, namely, Spur Steak Ranches, Spur Grill & Go, Panarottis Pizza Pasta, John Dory’s Fish Grill Sushi, RocoMamas, The Hussar Grill, Casa Bella and Nikos Coalgrill Greek. In order to retain an exceptional talent pool, the group endeavours to create a great place to work, building a collaborative and innovative performance-based culture which enables each employee to thrive on his or her unique Spur Corporation journey. Spur Corporation’s employees are passionate and purpose-driven people growing great brands. Through their dedicated service and talent, they offer support to the group’s endeavours and operational activities, offering an exceptional return on investment to all its shareholders. A career at Spur Corporation is an opportunity for an employee to nurture, learn, grow and realise their full potential.

An Operations Manager position has become available in the Operations Department at the Century City Office, Cape Town for an Operations Manager for Spur. The incumbent will be responsible for ensuring franchisor and franchisee profitability. To protect the investment of franchisees through proactive activity, ensure maintenance of high standards in the region.

Minimum Requirements

• Grade 12/ Matric.
• A qualification in Operations Management would be advantageous.
• SPUR in store operator and or existing area management experience.
• 3 years’ experience in restaurant senior management or elsewhere in restaurant industry preferable.
• Computer – MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
• Be in a possession of a Code 8 driver’s licence.
• Have a strong sense of self-discipline and time management.
• Willingness and ability to travel extensively.
• Excellent work ethic.
• Coordinate and multitude of stakeholders.
• Interact interpersonal for the full duration of each day with multiple clients as well as adapt easily to different cultures.
• Good communication skills, both verbally and written.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Attend Operations meetings to discuss status reports and action plans to improve stores turnover and standards.
• Attend follow up meetings as per the minutes.
• Monitoring branded product off takes and Central Kitchens off takes.
• Ensure timeous collection of debtors.
• Ensure timeous collection of declarations and turnover listings to facilitate checking of correct turnovers declared.
• Ensure that all relevant in-store strategic intent is in place and conduct follow ups in order to ensure maximum turnover is derived.
• Ensure all franchisee fees and advertising levies are collected / paid by the 15th day of each month.
• Ensure that monthly financial analyses (income statements) are conducted and provide written guidance on improving net profit.
• Assist stores/area managers with the compilation of budgets and cash flows (daily / weekly / monthly).
• Ensure that all relevant in-store strategies are in place, i.e. marketing plans, monthly & weekly overhead budgets, incentives for management, ASPH strategies, staff and casuals and stock turn ratios etc.
• Spend quality time with area managers and spend time in stores to ascertain poor food cost/overhead practices and rectification thereof.
• Implement on-going follow ups on strategic intent.
• Ensure that monthly quality and hygiene report and ‘C’ follow ups are done within 10 days.
• Ensure that monthly service assessments and ‘C’ follow ups are done within 10 days.
• Training of management, casuals and staff, utilising material at the Operations manager’s disposal, e.g. videos.
• Attend Bi-monthly management meetings with owners and management, developing action plans for improvement.
• Visiting stores to review quality of product, service and hygiene and assist when necessary.
• Demonstrating and following up of opening, 11h00 am, 17h00 pm and closing procedures.
• Organise Q-pro Audits for problematic stores.
• Implementing three (3) / six (6) month marketing plans.
• Ensure that R&M standards are acceptable.
• Schedule training for new franchisees, staff and management.
• Assist with opening of new stores.
• Handle customer complaints immediately.
• Ensure that all promotions and relevant promotional material are available in store.
• Collect lease agreements.
• Collect franchise agreements.
• Update Extranet/ Intranet information.
• Ensure all Head Office files and administration is kept up to date and organised.
• Enforce buyers and suppliers nominated by our company.
• Request profit and loss statements from franchisees.
• Negotiate revamps.
• Implement strategies to improve the Brand and the franchisees position.
• Convert stores from 30 days to a COD account at Vector.
• Request Q-pro audit for the following;
• Failed hygiene audits
• Poor operational standards
• Enforce the retraining of management/casuals/staff at store level.
• Draw up repairs and maintenance snag lists and ensure that they are completed by the set date.
• Debate Branded products viability.
• Organise Franchise Agreements to be signed.