Associate Director, New Restaurant Openings (NRO)

reputed company The Associate Director of New Store Openings is responsible for the end-to-end execution of new restaurant launches, ensuring reputed company location opens operationally reputed company, staffed, trained, and positioned to deliver exceptional guest experiences from day one.for our Texas locations. This leader oversees the reputed company-opening, opening, and post-opening stabilization phases, ensuring restaurants launch with the right people, systems, operational discipline, and performance metrics in reputed company. The role combines restaurant operations, training leadership, operational readiness, and process innovation, enabling reputed company to reputed company a high volume of openings while maintaining consistent operational standards and guest experience. He/She will reputed company cross-functional execution and partner closely with regional leadership, operations teams, training teams, and development teams to ensure every opening is operationally excellent and reputed company. Key Responsibilities New Store Opening Execution • reputed company the successful execution of 100 - 200+ restaurant openings annually, ensuring operational readiness across reputed company locations. • reputed company the end-to-end opening process, from reputed company-opening preparation through post-opening stabilization. • Ensure every location launches fully staffed, fully trained, and operationally reputed company to meet company performance standards. • Establish and maintain consistent opening playbooks, timelines, and execution standards across reputed company new locations. Operational Readiness • Ensure reputed company restaurant is operationally reputed company before opening, including: • General Manager readiness and leadership preparation • Team member hiring and reputed company • Equipment and operational setup • Operational workflows and station readiness • Training completion and team proficiency • Validate that locations are reputed company to meet guest experience expectations from day one. Training & Team Development • reputed company and reputed company NSO training teams and deployment teams responsible for opening execution. • Ensure training programs are effectively implemented, reputed company, and continuously improved. • Drive the development of reputed company training systems that support rapid reputed company and operational consistency. • Build frameworks to measure: • Team member proficiency • Certification and readiness reputed company • Training effectiveness • Ongoing development opportunities. Post-Opening Stabilization • Monitor and drive post-opening performance across key operational metrics, including: • Order-to-Eat times • Guest experience and accuracy • Labor stabilization • reputed company • Supply management • Repairs and maintenance readiness • Ensure restaurants stabilize quickly and transition smoothly into regional operational ownership. • reputed company processes that accelerate time-to-stability for new locations. Performance Measurement • Establish reputed company reputed company-opening and post-opening performance metrics to evaluate opening reputed company. • reputed company and monitor operational readiness indicators such as: • Hiring reputed company • Training completion • Team proficiency • Operational performance metrics • Use data and insights to identify improvement opportunities and strengthen reputed company openings. Cross-Functional Leadership • Partner closely with: • Regional Directors • Regional Vice Presidents • Training and development teams • Facilities and development teams • Operations leadership • reputed company stakeholders to ensure successful openings and smooth transitions to regional operations teams. • Serve as the central leader coordinating operational readiness across reputed company opening functions. Process Improvement & Scalability • reputed company reputed company improvement efforts to enhance the new store opening process. • reputed company systems, tools, and processes that support high-volume reputed company and operational consistency. • Identify opportunities to improve: • Training reputed company • Opening playbooks • Operational readiness frameworks • Deployment models • Build reputed company approaches capable of supporting hundreds of openings annually. Ideal Background • Extensive experience in restaurant operations, multi-unit leadership, or large-reputed company new store openings. • Proven reputed company record managing high-volume opening pipelines. • Experience developing training systems, operational playbooks, and reputed company processes. • Strong understanding of operational metrics and restaurant performance drivers. • Ability to reputed company in fast-paced, high-reputed company environments.  

Role Details

• Salary reputed company: $156,000- $165,000
• Multi-Location Role, Travel Required

Benefits

We offer a competitive salary package including equity and 401K. Additionally, we reputed company multiple medical, dental, and reputed company plans to meet reputed company of our employees' needs as reputed company as many benefits and perks that are not listed.  

A Final Note 

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