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Training Manager Head Office – Wonderfield Group Contract: Full Time

Salary: 44,000

Contracted Hours: 40

The Wonderfield Group has recently been purchased by Zensho Holdings, the leading food service company in Japan with a market cap of $5.5b and whose aim is to become the worlds largest food company, a position from which we can eradicate hunger and poverty from around the globe. We operate restaurants, factories, and thousands of sushi kiosks and have recently built a successful cut fruit business, Snowfruit. Combining this with the three businesses previously owned by Zensho, AFC, Sushi Circle and Sushi Take, results in annual sales of $2.5b and Ebitda in excess of $140m a year with an ambitious growth trajectory.

Essential Skills / Knowledge:

• Experienced training professional. A background in operations is desirable
• Experience in facilitating
• Intermediate to advanced IT skills (MS Office 365), specifically Teams
• Passion for coaching
• Stakeholder engagement and commercially minded
• Excellent planning, organising and time management skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Self-motivation and ability to work on one\’s own
• Great attention to detail and accuracy
• Ability to anticipate needs and to react quickly to demands
• Great flexibility

Overview of the role

This is a field based role with overnight stays, a driving licence and access to vehicle is required

The Franchise Training Manager will be critical in providing both classroom learning as well as \’on-the-shop-floor\’ support for the franchise owned kiosks. They will be responsible for all the learning content and programs related to franchise.

The successful applicant will have proven training experience and have a hospitality operations background at Manager (or equivalent level). You will be working as part of a progressive, digitally led operations team and must be commercially minded ensuring training support is beneficial, attractive, and cost effective to the end user.

Key Responsibilities

• Proven experience in food service or franchise training, ideally within fresh food retail or restaurant environments.
• Strong understanding of kiosk operations in grocery environments.
• Experienced in managing multiple training programs across both franchised and corporate retail formats.
• Skilled in designing and delivering training content including SOPs, e-learning modules, and practical, hands-on materials.
• Confident facilitator across both classroom and operational training environments.
• Strong coaching and mentoring skills, with a passion for developing individuals and teams.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement, and interpersonal skills.
• Commercially minded, with the ability to align training initiatives with wider business objectives.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office 365, especially Teams, and experienced with digital learning platforms such as Attensi.
• Highly organised and self-motivated, with excellent planning, time management, and attention to detail.
• Adaptable and flexible, able to respond quickly to changing priorities and business needs.
• Comfortable working independently or collaboratively within cross-functional teams.
• Level 3 Food Safety certification (or equivalent) preferred.