Business Manager

• Assess and identify new opportunities for growth in current and prospective markets.

• Establish the company s goals and objectives.

• Recruit and train new employees.

• Perform regular employee evaluations to determine areas of improvement.

• Design business strategies and plans to meet the company goals.

• Make sure that the company has sufficient resources such as personnel, material, and equipment.

• Develop a comprehensive company budget and perform periodic budget analyses.

• Ensure all company activities adhere to legal guidelines and policies.

• Assess overall company performance

• Totally responsible for the performance of outlets including general appearance, quality, taste, employees and profitability.

• Responsible for achieving the revenue targets along with EBITDA targets through daily prompt P&L management.

• Works with RMs to develop restaurant-specific Annual Operating Plans and communicate to the team.

• Sets the RMs monthly restaurant business plans and review monthly.

• Monitor competitors activities and coordinate with operation and marketing managers to keep ahead of competition

• Keep RMs informed of any competitive activity.

• Ensure the implementation of the marketing plan.

• Lead new products launch.

• Audits cash handling procedures to ensure deposits, receipts for cash, change fund, deletes and paid outs are handled appropriately.

• Analyze the operations / P&L to determine deviation from standards and coach the concerned RM to take corrective measures.

• Monitors the operations effectiveness through the Pace Setter.

• Analyzes sales, labor, inventory and controllable on a continual basis and coaches RMs to take specific corrective action to meet or achieve margin and sales growth targets.What Are We Looking For?• Minimum university degree, Tourism & Hotels Management or Business Administration is highly preferable.

• 6-8 years supervisory experience in either a food service

• Minimum of 5-6 years overall experience, with emphasis on operations in a retail and/or consumer orientated service industry

• Experienced in operations management and business administration (minimum 2-3 years) with responsibility for achievement of operations targets, i.e., sales, profit, people management and procedural compliance.

• Thorough knowledge of company performance metrics, product specification and management systems

• Demonstrated track record of workplace achievement in the selection, coaching and development of managerial employees

• Proven ability to drive customer satisfaction, financial performance and employee satisfaction

• Language skills: fluent Arabic and English (Oral/Written)

• IT Skills: Excellent MS Office.

• Creative and initiative

• Communication & Presentation skills

• IT Skills: Excellent MS Office specially PowerPoint and Internet Research

• Arabic language is preferable however not essential