Manager Designate

Summary : Works at the direction and under the supervision of the General Manager to ensure compliance with the Company’s product and customer service standards.

This is accomplished by being a team-oriented leader, making quality decisions, and instilling pride and accountability in team members.

Other responsibilities include Shift Management; execution of all Company policies, procedures, programs, and systems; and maintaining compliance with all federal, state, and local laws and ethical business practices.

Through the performance of these and other duties, the Manager Designate is expected to develop the competencies required to become a General Manager.

The information below covers the role requirements, expected candidate experience, and accompanying qualifications.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities : To perform this job successfully, team members must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. Other duties may be assigned.

• Provides quality products to our customers by ensuring each delivered product meets Papa John’s standards and accurately reflects the customer’s order.
• Communicates, trains, and promotes quality standards to team members by utilizing all available tools including Operations Manual and Team Member Handbook.
• Recommends to the General Manager performance action regarding team members. Ensures the entire team is quality and customer-focused and builds an atmosphere of teamwork, energy, and fun.
• Manages sales goals by providing prompt and friendly customer service; building check averages through team member product training and sales execution.

Seeks additional sales through traditional and non-traditional methods by executing creative local restaurant marketing and creating a positive presence in the community.

Manages profit goals, ensures food, labor, and other controllable costs stay within budget, and corrects deviations from the budget by accurately utilizing the PROFIT System.

Executes administrative and cash management duties.

Plans and manages adequate inventory levels using the restaurant’s computerized inventory system to meet sales demands and minimize loss.

Manages the company’s assets by ensuring the restaurant is clean, fully equipped, and all equipment operates properly; ensures the restaurant meets safety and security standards at all times.

Competencies : Competencies are classified as the work habits, attitudes, personal characteristics, and behaviors that reflect how a person accomplishes the duties and responsibilities of his / her job.

Action Oriented : Enjoys working hard; is action-oriented and full of energy for the things he / she sees as challenging;

not fearful of acting with a minimum of planning; seizes more opportunities than others.

• Peer Relationships : Can quickly find common ground and solve problems for the good of all; can represent his / her own interests and yet be fair to other groups;
• can solve problems with peers with a minimum of noise; is seen as a team player and is cooperative; easily gains trust and support of peers;

encourages collaboration; can be candid with peers.

Active Learning : Learns quickly when facing new problems; a relentless and versatile learner; open to change; analyzes both successes and failures for clues to improvement;

experiments and will try anything to find solutions; enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.

Drive for Results : Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers;

very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.

Decision Quality : Makes good decisions (without considering how much time it takes) based upon a mixture of analysis, wisdom, experience, and judgment;

most of his / her solutions and suggestions turn out to be correct and accurate when judged over time; sought out by others for advice and solutions.

Customer Focus : Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services;

acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.

• Developing Direct Reports and Others : Provides challenging and stretching tasks and assignments; holds frequent development discussions;
• is aware of each person's career goals; constructs compelling development plans and executes them; pushes people to accept developmental moves;

will take on those who need help and further development; cooperates with the developmental system in the organization; is a people builder.

• Building Effective Teams : Blends people into teams when needed; creates strong morale and spirit in his / her team; shares wins and successes;
• fosters open dialogue; lets people finish and be responsible for their work; defines success in terms of the whole team;

creates a feeling of belonging in the team.

Conflict Management : Steps up to conflicts, seeing them as opportunities; reads situations quickly; good at focused listening;

can hammer out tough agreements and settle disputes equitably; can find common ground and get cooperation with minimum noise.

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