Franchise Business Consultant, Waxing

Position: Franchise Business Consultant, Waxing the City
# Purpose Brands Purpose Brands, the parent company of Orange theory, Anytime Fitness, Waxing the City, The Bar Method, and Basecamp Fitness, is seeking a Franchise Business Consultant to join its Waxing the City team. This is a great position for someone who is looking to expand their career, and join a company with a fun, fast-paced and inspirational culture.
LOCATION REQUIREMENT:
We are prioritizing candidates who live within the states of Georgia and Florida or within daily commuting distance of the Woodbury, MN corporate office and are not in need of relocation.
As a Franchise Business Coach, your work will directly impact the success of the enterprise by influencing the performance and profitability of each Waxing the City Franchisee in your territory. You will assist Franchisees by providing a wide range of consulting and development services, developing and facilitating strategic initiatives to promote sales growth and profitability, and ensuring consistency through education and guidance on in-studio and multi-unit operations.

Successful coaches will leverage their industry and business development experience to assess current performance, identify areas of opportunity, recommend solutions based upon best practices, develop an action plan and follow up to encourage follow through.
The Franchise Business Coach reports to the Director of Franchise Support and is based geographically within their territory. This position will provide service across multiple states and communities, and thus will require up to 70% travel within and outside of their assigned geographical territory. When not traveling this position will work from a remote home office.
** Purpose/Impact (Duties & Essential Functions)
** Operations:
* Weekly/Monthly review of territory performance results by Franchisee
* Assess and determine performance gaps, opportunities and operational needs for Franchisees
* Provide related recommendations, training, follow-up and general assistance to Franchisee
* Establish action plans to assist Franchisees in achieving growth potential
* Provide written follow up after each visit and on-going to ensure execution of action plan(s)
* Monitor operational standards and report unacceptable performance to Franchisees, as well as corporate staff, if necessary
* Review local level results and adoption of Waxing the City initiatives and create action plans to improve consistency in implementation
* Provide front line / Franchisee perspective in the identification and development of new initiatives, communication, and training, and to define and solve Franchisee challenges
* Act as the liaison between Franchisees and Corporate, ensuring effective flow of communication
* Willing to put the needs of the business ahead of one’s own needs when absolutely necessary

Facilitated Development:
* Work to recommend customized training programs based on the knowledge of the Franchisees studio operations, management training practices and staff development needs.
* Motivated to take a leading role is developing components of support systems, or systems in their entirety, for their portfolio and for the enterprise
* Advance multiunit growth and performance optimization with franchise partners
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* Core Competencies:

** Ability to self-manage while working remotely, Influencing, Organization, Communication (speaking, written, presentation), Relationship building, Diplomacy, Urgency
** Strengths and Background:
*** Demonstrated ability to achieve results in a multi-unit retail / service or franchise environment
* Excellent leadership, interpersonal, influence, and inspirational skills
* Comfortable dealing with uncertainty; demonstrated ability to create structure and prioritize work effectively
* Must be flexible and have excellent problem-solving, time management, and administrative skills
* Ability to learn quickly and easily adapt to a dynamic work environment
* Capacity to remain calm when challenged, and uphold professionalism in working through conflict
* Articulate with excellent verbal and written communication skills (phone, email, in person and presentation)
* Ability to think creatively, and to be a driven and self-motivated…