Franchise Business Consultant

Franchise Business Consultant

Driven Brands is North America's largest automotive services company with a portfolio of iconic brands including Take 5 Oil Change®, Meineke Car Care Centers®, Maaco®, 1-800-Radiator & A/C®, Auto Glass Now®, and CARSTAR®. Our vision is to fuel the pursuit with the simplest, most convenient, and most reliable car care experience.

Headquartered in Charlotte, NC, Driven Brands is more than a workplace. We're a launchpad — for careers, for dreams, and for people driven to do great things.

Every day, we fuel the pursuit — for our customers chasing life's moments, for our franchisees building lasting legacies, and for each other as we grow, lead, and succeed together.

Performance matters. We take pride in it. We own it. We show up for one another and for our communities.

Because at Driven Brands, we're not just fixing cars. We're building futures, unlocking potential, and fueling what's possible — together.

The Franchise Business Consultant provides world-class support to Franchisees and Center Managers and provides effective guidance, and coaching to meet or exceed Sales, Car Count, and Customer Experience metrics. You will be an influential leader on the Take 5 Oil Change model to improve franchisee performance and profitability while protecting Take 5's brand image, service, and quality standards.

Responsibilities:

• Achieves position goals, timelines, and KPI metrics through coaching all franchisees in a geographic territory:
• Center support through in center visits and virtual coaching sessions.
• Conduct market meetings and peer-to peer focus groups to deliver training on company initiatives that impact performance and increase engagement,
• Utilize observations and data driven insights to provide directional coaching to improve revenue, people development, and customer experiences.
• Utilize available reports and tools to improve gross profit, reduce expenses, and maximize EBITDA to improve franchisee profitability.
• Document all activity in FranConnect, including but not limited to, the Take 5 Operational Audits, Profit Reviews, Center Visits, and Virtual Coaching Forms.
• Interfaces with all support departments to ensure timely and accurate responses to franchisees needs and questions that ensures franchisee satisfaction.
• Focus on strategic and tactical processes to improve the center's customer experience through measurable systems like NPS, and online ratings.
• Provides oversight to ensure franchisee compliance to brand obligations for quality, image, training and service.
• Attend and participate in the Take 5 Annual Rally and drive 100% attendance at the event, participate in the Take 5 Operations & Training meetings and any other corporate organized events as needed. Create and deliver content as needed
• Implements marketing and sales direction to increase regional revenue growth.
• Effectively demonstrating, coaching, observing, evaluating, analyzing and training all aspects of the Take 5 Operating system through coaching methodology.
• Building trust through respectful communication and dedication, to gain a positive coaching relationship with franchisees and key Managers.
• Creation, use and delivery of appropriate communication and technologies (via video, PowerPoint, excel, webinar, L&D platform, BI tools, etc.) to maximize communication with franchisees and employees with respect to operations plans, strategies, projects, tools and technologies.
• Contribute, communicate, and implement new/current company initiatives.
• Assist in the development of new systems and resources for the franchise system
• Responsible for ensuring the timely, and accurate reporting for the territory
• Understand and deliver the obligations within the franchise agreement.
• Communicates succession planning with franchisees across the district to support growth and timely new unit openings.
• Travel approximately 50%.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
• 5+ years in multi-unit operations (franchise/chain)
• Strong financial analysis and P&L management skills
• Proven ability to lead in sales, marketing, and operations
• Results-oriented with a can-do attitude
• Excellent sales, consulting and communication skills
• Skilled in group training, presentations, and public speaking
• Automotive or hospitality industry experience preferred
• Franchise experience preferred
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint
• Must be able to bend or stand; ability to maneuver in and out of a shallow 3' deep pit used to position self safely under cars
• Must be able to walk, stand, bend, stoop, twist, etc. for extended periods of time and perform activities involving holding, grasping, pulling, and turning
• Candidate must live in the Northeast territory.