Projects & Growth Lead – Retail in Manchester

Projects & Growth Lead – Retail in Manchester

Manchester Full-Time 60000 - 80000 Β£ / year (est.) No working from home possible
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At a Glance

  • Tasks: Drive performance and growth across multiple sites in a fast-scaling consumer business.
  • Company: Dynamic multi-site consumer business looking for innovative leaders.
  • Benefits: Competitive salary, growth opportunities, and the chance to shape new processes.
  • Other info: Join a transformative environment with potential for strategic growth.
  • Why this job: Make a real impact by building and optimising revenue programmes from the ground up.
  • Qualifications: Experience in central operations or restaurant excellence with a commercial mindset.

The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 Β£ per year.

Most people in central operations or restaurant excellence spend their career executing someone else's growth plan. If you have spent your time driving performance across multi-site QSR or hospitality and are wondering what a step outside the sector could look like, this is a genuinely commercial role with a fast-scaling, multi-site consumer business.

The skill set required is one that QSR operators already possess: rolling out new propositions across an estate, fixing what's not converting site by site, and getting cross-functional teams moving without needing formal authority.

You won't be inheriting a tidy, mature process; you'll be building the one that doesn't currently exist. This includes:

  • Owning a major revenue programme end to end, tracking performance site by site, chasing down whatever's blocking growth and fixing it.
  • Taking new service categories from pilot through to full rollout, building the operational playbook as you go.
  • Driving commercial optimisation across the estate, including pricing, conversion, and package structure, finding where revenue is leaking and closing the gap.
  • Running the project plan across multiple growth initiatives at once, keeping marketing, operations, finance, and tech aligned without overloading site teams.

Ideal candidates will have worked in central operations or restaurant/site excellence, owning commercial growth or rollout projects across a multi-site consumer business. Backgrounds in QSR, hospitality, or franchise are preferred.

Key attributes include:

  • Commercial thinking, understanding margins, pricing, and conversion, not just project timelines.
  • Clear communication skills at both site level and director level.
  • Real operational credibility, understanding what it takes to execute on the ground, not just plan at head office.

Bonus points for:

  • Experience in a PE-backed or transformation environment.
  • Background managing a specialist team or network within an estate.
  • Experience with site or clinic management software.

Get the fundamentals right in year one, prove the playbook works, and the natural next step is owning growth at a genuinely strategic level as the estate scales further, not just running the projects, but shaping which ones happen.

If your background is in central operations or restaurant excellence within QSR or multi-site hospitality, and you're ready to take that operating rhythm into a new sector, get in touch.

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We think you need these skills to ace Projects & Growth Lead – Retail in Manchester

Commercial Acumen
Project Management
Cross-Functional Team Leadership
Operational Excellence
Performance Tracking
Revenue Optimisation
Problem-Solving Skills