Manager - International Construction

The Wendy's Company•Miami, FL

40d•$105,000 - $184,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Leads restaurant regional growth by coaching, supporting and influencing franchisees, driving restaurant completion timely and at the highest quality. This person will serve as the regional design and construction leader and point of contact with the franchisee, not only sharing company’s design, construction tools, procurement updates and processes, but by connecting with the franchisee at the correct level of leadership driving understanding and identifying the individual markets and franchisees opportunities. This person leads a support team covering the LAC Market. Manages and oversee the regional restaurant development process, for new builds and reimages, from planning and design to construction and post construction, ensuring timely completion of the Wendy’s restaurants ensuring strong brand awareness and compliance. Lead strategic regional and global initiatives around the broader business needs, process enhancement, KPIs improvement, construction cost savings, FF&E supply chain, design and others. Accountable for the accuracy of the company’s tracking systems dates working on accurate T-minus with franchisees and managing all design and construction milestones accurately and timely.

Requirements

Bachelors Degree in Construction management, Architecture or Engineering.
Minimum 5 years of experience on F&B construction management.
International business experience is required.
Revit and Autocad knowledge.
Proficiency with Excel, Power Point and Visio.
Proficiency in the main language of the region.
Proficiency in English & Spanish language (spoken and written).

Responsibilities

Overall project schedule management and reports for the region – By T-Minus management of project pipeline and biweekly projects’ progress update reports. Guide and influence franchisee on timely completion and accurate reporting. Manage and enter Project milestones into Wendy’s project management system.
Relationship owner with franchisee & Wendy’s Real Estate, Design and Construction teams – Work with the franchisees’ construction, design and operations teams during the construction and post construction phases, scheduling and facilitating the necessary meetings.
Manage the overall project workflow with meetings as key preestablished milestones
Assist the Wendy’s design team on the submittal process for approval of alternate materials
Ensure adherence to Wendy’s standards and design approved by the Wendy’s design team.
Cost management and VE support – Work with the franchisee construction team on budget reviews and value engineering support.
Prepare and upload budget forms to the Wendy’s document control software reports with detailed CAPEX cost information.
Ability to analyze FZ CAPEX cost and benchmark with competitors in the region.
Overall budgeting and value engineering support services for Wendy’s current and upcoming designs.
Identify market and franchisee specific value engineer opportunities, develop solutions and implement them at market and regional level.
On site QA/QC – Perform onsite or virtual construction and post construction reviews to ensure completion per the approved drawings, on schedule and per the brand’s quality requirements. Ability to capture corrections and inform opportunities to franchisee and internal design team.
FF&E Supply chain support – Assist on the management of the international supply chain and procurement of additional suppliers for equipment, finishes and furniture to increase supplier pool.
Franchisee support activities – Support preparation of construction and project management manuals, processes, workflows and perform regional Franchisee’s training sessions.
Brand support and Strategic initiatives – Assist on the preparation and update of brand standard guidelines and strategic regional and global projects to support the broader business