Job Description

Employment Type: Full time

Position Overview

Facilitates restaurant transactions and provides solutions for non-compliant Development Agreements to help strengthen each of our brands and foster strong restaurant growth.

Responsibilities

• Act as a project manager for the franchisee-to-franchisee transfer process for the Dunkin', Baskin-Robbins, and SONIC brands; provide analytical support related to ROFR opportunities and make recommendations.
• Provide solutions for non-compliant Store Development Agreements.
• Manage the acquisition of franchisee restaurants by Inspire to run corporately from the financial analysis stage through the closing and post-closing cleanup.
• Manage the disposition of Inspire corporately run restaurants to franchisee operators from the financial analysis stage through the closing and post-closing cleanup.
• Evaluate and recommend solutions for distressed franchisee situations.
• Provide analytical support for ad hoc business development situations within the Brands.

Education and Experience Qualifications

• Required: 4-year degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, or related field.
• Preferred: Graduate Degree.
• Required: 3+ years of relevant work experience.

Required Knowledge, Skills, or Abilities

• Strong technical, analytical, and problem-solving skills with an emphasis on financial returns.
• Sound knowledge of financial principles.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to navigate through a Transaction Process involving Franchisees and financing Institutions, attorneys, Investment Bankers/Business Brokers, and Landlords.
• Ability to manage a process involving cross-functional teams in the execution of M&A Financial Transactions.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint.
• Experience working with various Financial Systems and Valuation Models.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Word and Microsoft Outlook.
• Preferred: Negotiating Experience.

Company Information

Inspire is a multi-brand restaurant company whose portfolio includes more than 33,000 Arby’s, Baskin-Robbins, Buffalo Wild Wings, Dunkin’, Jimmy John’s, and SONIC restaurants worldwide.

We’re made up of some of the world’s most iconic restaurant brands, but we’re much more than just a restaurant company. We’re a team of hundreds of thousands who individually and collectively are changing the way people eat, drink, and gather around the table. We know that food is much more than a staple—it’s an experience. At Inspire, that’s our purpose: to ignite and nourish flavorful experiences.