Franchise Sales Growth Manager

Who Are We?

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EverSmith Brands is a rapidly growing platform of franchise brands serving the commercial facilities services sector. We have aggressive goals to become the premier franchisor in commercials services, providing growth opportunities for our franchisees and our home office team alike. EverSmith Brands is a portfolio company of the private equity firm Riverside Company, which has an extensive history as a growth investor in franchising businesses.

The EverSmith Brands platform includes:

• MilliCare, a premium, international franchise specializing in maintaining and restoring commercial flooring & textiles
• Kitchen Guard, a premier commercial kitchen exhaust cleaning franchise
• U.S. Lawns, the nation's #1 and largest exclusive commercial landscaping franchise
• Clintar, Canada's premier commercial landscaping & snow management franchise for 50+ years,
• Prism, a specialty restoration franchise for textiles, art, electronics, documents, and more,
• The Seals, a fast-growing commercial Kitchen Services Franchise providing refrigeration and oven gasket installation, door sweeps, and many other services, and
• 1-Tom-Plumber, an emergency service plumbing franchise specializing in emergency plumbing, drain cleaning, and excavation.

Position Summary:

Kitchen Guard is hiring a Franchise Sales Growth Manager to help franchise owners drive local sales performance and grow revenue in their markets. This role will work directly with franchisees to support the performance, coaching, and development of their Fire & Life Safety Consultants (FLSCs) . The focus will be on helping franchisees create stronger sales habits, better pipeline discipline, more consistent follow-up, and improved local sales execution.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support franchisees with onboarding, coaching, and developing their FLSCs.
• Help franchisees establish weekly sales rhythms, activity expectations, and accountability routines.
• Coach FLSCs on prospecting, customer outreach, relationship-building, follow-up, proposal management, and closing habits.
• Review sales pipelines with franchisees and FLSCs to identify stalled opportunities, missed follow-ups, and next steps.
• Support consistent CRM usage and sales reporting to improve visibility and accountability.
• Help drive local revenue growth through prospecting plans, customer reactivation, proposal follow-up, and target account outreach.
• Identify best practices from high-performing markets and help turn them into simple, repeatable tools for the system.
• Participate in franchisee meetings, sales huddles, training calls, and field support sessions as needed.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in sales, sales leadership, sales coaching, franchise support, field sales, or local B2B sales.
• Experience coaching, managing, or developing sales representatives.
• Strong understanding of prospecting, pipeline management, CRM usage, follow-up, and local market sales execution.
• Ability to coach and influence franchisees and their sales teams without directly managing franchisee employees.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to build trust quickly with business owners and salespeople.
• Ability to review sales activity, identify gaps, and create practical action plans.
• Experience in franchising, home services, facilities services, commercial cleaning, restaurant services, fire/life safety, or multi-unit operations is preferred.
• Ability to travel up to 50%

Benefits:

• Full time position
• Competitive salary
• Annual performance bonus
• Paid time off
• Paid holidays
• Medical, dental, vision insurance
• Company paid life and disability insurance
• 401K with company match
• Great working environment (energetic, fun, friendly, casual, and collaborative)
• Growth opportunities
• Cell phone reimbursement
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Health savings account

Physical Requirements:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. The employee should be able to stand, sit at an office space, see, hear and understand speech, communicate, lift computer equipment, supplies and materials, use office equipment and computers. The employee is exposed to typical office working conditions. If requested by an applicant or employee, we may provide reasonable accommodations to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential job functions. The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties required of personnel so classified. We have the exclusive right to alter this job description at any time without notice. xhyhwjd

EverSmith Brands is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and to attracting, retaining, developing and promoting the most qualified employees without regard to their race, gender, color, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, citizenship status, veteran status, or any other characteristic prohibited by federal or state law. We are dedicated to providing a work environment free from discrimination and harassment, and where employees are treated with respect and dignity.