Franchise Development Manager

Job Description

We are Centrica! We’re so much more than an energy company. We’re a family of brands revolutionising a cleaner, greener future. Working here is #MoreThanACareer - we’re powered by purpose. Together we can make an impact that will truly change tomorrow. Whether you’re developing cutting-edge green tech, helping customers on the front line or simplifying operations behind the scenes.

Your work here isn’t just a job – it’s a mission. We all play a vital role in energising a greener, fairer future.

We have two fantastic new opportunities for Franchise Business Development Managers to join our Dyno team. In this role, you will be providing business support and coaching across a portfolio of Franchisee offices. You will need to be able to motivate, support, and challenge Franchise owners to take on new ideas that will sustain growth whilst helping them build their business, ensuring long term profitability.

Location: With our Flexible First working arrangements we empower our colleagues to work in a way that best suits them – meaning location doesn’t need to be a barrier. This role can be mostly based at home but with flexibility required to travel as needed to attend meetings and meet with Franchisees. We are looking for a Franchise Business Development Manager who can cover the north of the country and a Franchise Business Development Manager who can cover the south of the country.

Key Accountabilities:

• Set up and monitor Franchisees business plans.
• Support of new Franchisees in their first 12 months.
• Prepare with Franchisees business plans taking into consideration the point in the Franchisee life cycle, e, g. new start, exiting network.
• Build strong working relationships with Franchisees in your region.
• Ensure Franchises have the right resource levels in place to deliver their Dyno Direct Revenue targets.
• Build and maintain strong working relationships within the Dyno wider leadership team to help deliver the targets of the business.
• Support New Growth initiatives and their adoption within the Franchisee Business plans.
• Lead Quarterly Franchise Business plan reviews with franchises within your region.

Who are we looking for?

• Understanding of Franchise business model.
• Strong Commercial & business acumen.
• Understanding of preparation and execution of Business Plans.
• Financial acumen i.e. able to prepare P & L, Cashflow Forecasts.
• Influencing key external stakeholders.
• Influence and negotiation skills.
• Experience of running a business would be desirable.
• QFP qualification is desirable.

We are proud to be recognised as a disability-confident employer. Our customers come from a variety of different backgrounds, and so do we. We hire great people from all walks of life, not just because it’s the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. We will continue championing inclusivity while investing in our local communities to create a better, more sustainable world for everyone. We are incredibly proud to have been recognised by The Times for being one of the Top 50 Employers for Women.

Our people are the beating heart of our business. We are incredibly proud of our commitment to being FlexFirst. From childcare to furry friends, we listened to our people and understood that they work best when they are comfortable and have a flexible working model that suits their individual needs. We embrace the opportunity to give our colleagues a choice to work from anywhere whilst still ensuring they can connect and engage with their teams through office days, employee networks and virtual events.

We have tailored our well-being & benefits package around our employees as follows;

• Competitive salary and bonus potential
• Employee Energy Allowance at 15% of the government price cap
• Pension scheme
• Company Funded Healthcare Plan
• 25 days holiday allowance, plus public holidays, and the option to buy up to 5 additional days
• Excellent range of flexible benefits, including technology vouchers, electric car lease scheme & travel insurance

We are committed to creating a cleaner and greener future. And we’re making big changes to help us get there. That means cutting customers' emissions and our own to reach net zero. And because our people are the beating heart of our business, we will continue to champion inclusivity, develop future skills and invest in our local communities to create a better world for everyone. As part of our reforestation project with WeForest, for every new employee that joins our family, we plant trees in underprivileged areas in Tanzania to offer farming and wildlife economy opportunities for locals.

#LI-BGAS

At Centrica we embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. To build a more sustainable future, we need the best team – a team with a diverse mix of people and skills, where everyone feels welcome and able to succeed. We are dedicated in helping to close the diversity gap and would love to see more females, people of colour and LGBTQ+ employees, as well as those from a variety of cultures and ethnicity to veterans and the differently abled. Supporting diversity and inclusion is a big part of who we are, we are not looking for people to fit into our culture but to add to it!

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This role is being handled by the Centrica recruitment team and NO agency contact is required.