Development Manager - Woodmead at Spur Corporation

Job Advert Summary    

• 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.
• A position has become available in the Development Department at the Woomead Office, Johannesburg for a Development Manager. Purpose of this job is to provide strategic support and build brands through cost effective development of new restaurants, relocations and refurbishments platforms.

Minimum Requirements    

• Grade 12
• Tertiary qualification (degree, diploma, or NC) and 10 to 15 years’ experience
• National Diploma
• Btech Business Management or similar - Advantageous
• Financial Management
• Leadership and Management Development
• Project Management (development)
• Computer literate skills (MS office, Excel, Outlook, Word, Teams, Video conferencing)
• Leadership skills
• Exceptional Interpersonal skills - Relationship Management
• Good Communication skills
• Presentation and facilitation skills
• Negotiating skills
• Acute attention to detail
• Analyzing, problem solving and making recommendations
• Financial business case and budget development
• Project management and process skills

Duties and Responsibilities    
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

• To prepare development strategies, plans and projects
• To prepare development strategies, plans and projects
• To manage and lead the execution of cost-effective development projects
• To provide strategic vision and leadership to development and project teams
• To build brand equity to ensure suitable return on investment to all stakeholders.
• Business case development and feasibility studies (including income and expenditure and cost scheduling)
• Franchisee assessment, approval and recruitment
• Negotiation of Lease agreements, value, terms and conditions and understanding property laws, municipal by-laws etc
• Restaurant layout and design and stakeholder liaison
• Develop and design of custom brand items (equipment, signage, décor etc)
• Setting up of project plans, estimates and managing execution of complex development projects
• Building schedule and occupation management
• Multiple project and stakeholder management

OPERATIONS

• General functions Finance, Operations, Marketing and People requirements within a restaurant environment
• Operational Strategy Development
• Strategy execution and implementation of operational scorecards (objectives and KPI's)
• Restaurant operational processes and standards
• Data analysis of sales/performance/operations metrics
• Application and use of technology in the Restaurant environment
• Knowledge of international trends (to keep brands topical, flexible and cutting edge) (relevancy)

FINANCE

• Finance and Business - Project budgets, expense management and forecasts
• Building Contractors and consultants cost negotiation and management
• Goods and Services quote analyses - optimization of cost components

MARKETING AND BRANDING

• Signage and building brands by virtue of visibility of restaurant and kid’s areas

PEOPLE

• Leading/managing project teams
• Employee and project team performance and personal development