District Leader - Thomas Serpa Group
Raynham, MA 02767
About the Job
Position Title: District Leader
Reports to: Director of Operations
Direct Reports: Restaurant Management
Job Summary: The District Leader at TSG leads their Restaurant Management teams in delivering a service experience that goes beyond the guest's expectations. The District Leader is responsible for the continuous operations of 5-8 locations. The District Leader sets an example for their team members by adhering to TSG policies and procedures.
Principle Responsibilities:
Team Environment
- Responsible for recruiting, hiring, conducting performance reviews, developing performance improvement plans, and professional development
- Ensure appropriate training tools are utilized
- Leads Restaurant Management team meetings at a minimum of every other week to communicate relevant operations information, e.g. seasonal products
Operational Excellence
- Create and maintain a people first culture in the restaurant
- Monitor, follow up and report training progress
- Ensure a safe, secure, and healthy work environment for safety, food safety, and sanitation guidelines; comply with all applicable laws
- Ensure Brand standards, recipes, systems and marketing windows are executed correctly
- Prepare, complete and follow up on action plans for remodels and new restaurant openings
Profitability
- Continuous assessment of profitability
- Provide coaching and feedback to Restaurant and Assistant Restaurant Managers regarding Brand standards, sales, marketing, and labor and food costs
- Drives sales by developing action plans to improve business
- Ensure tools and systems are in place to roll out new products, systems and processes
Key Competencies
Guest Focus
- Understands and exceeds guest expectations, needs and requirements
- Develops and maintains guest relationships
- Displays a sense of urgency with guests
- Seeks ways to improve guest satisfaction; asks questions, commits to follow-through
- Resolves guest concerns by following Brand recommended guest recovery process
Passion for Results
- Sets and maintains high standards for self and others, acts as a role model
- Consistently meets or exceeds goals
- Contributes to the overall team performance; understands how his/her role relates to others
- Sets, prioritizes and maintains focus on important activities
- Reads and interprets reports to establish goals and deliver results
- Seeks ideas and best practices from other individuals, teams, and networks and applies this knowledge to achieve results
Problem Solving and Decision Making
- Identifies and resolves issues and problems
- Uses information at hand to make decisions and solve problems; includes others when necessary
- Identifies root cause of a problem and implements a solution to prevent from recurring
- Empowers others to make decisions and resolve issues
Interpersonal Relationships & Influence
- Develops and maintains relationships with team
- Operates with integrity; demonstrates honesty, treats others with respect, keeps commitments
- Encourages collaboration and teamwork
- Leads others; negotiates and takes effective action
Building Effective Teams
- Identifies and communicates team goals
- Monitors progress, measures results and holds others accountable
- Creates strong morale and engagement within the team
- Accepts responsibilities for personal and team commitments
- Recognizes and rewards employee’s strengths, accomplishments and development
- Listens to others, seeks mutual understanding and welcomes sharing of information, ideas and resources
Conflict Management
- Seeks to understand conflict through active listening
- Recognizes conflicts as an opportunity to learn and improve
- Resolves situations using facts involved, ensuring consistency with policies and procedures
- Escalates issues as appropriate
Developing Direct Reports and Others
- Works collaboratively with employees to create individual development plans to strengthen employee’s knowledge and skills
- Regularly discusses progress towards goals, reviews performance and adjusts development plans accordingly
- Provides challenging assignments for the purpose of developing others
- Uses coaching and feedback opportunities to improve performance
- Identifies training needs and supports resources for development opportunities
Business and Financial Acumen
- Understands guest and competition; translates and applies own expertise to address business opportunities
- Approaches situations with an innovative mind and looks beyond the obvious to deliver solutions and implement change
- Has a working knowledge of profit and loss and other key financial measurements in order to identify business trends, adjust accordingly and set goals
- Understands, analyzes and communicates the key performance/profit levers and manages to these measures
Leading with Vision
- Sets clear, meaningful, challenging and attainable group goals and expectations that are aligned with those of the organization
- Drives a clear vision or sense of purpose and clearly communicates to the team
- Links mission, vision, values, goals and strategies to everyday work
Strategic Thinking
- Sees where current trends will lead, and how they may influence the organization’s direction
- Translates the vision for a program into clear strategies
- Thinks in strategic terms and can make the connection across functional teams
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