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Area / operations manager

Oversees several sites in a group, coaching general managers and driving standards, sales and margins. They are the bridge between head office and the sites.

A real shift

Drive between sites, sit with GMs over the numbers, walk the floor and kitchen, sort recruitment gaps and escalate problems. Evenings often include visiting busy services.

Skills that matter

  • Multi-site management
  • Coaching managers
  • Financial analysis
  • Brand standards
  • Change management

Qualifications

  • Level 4 Hospitality Manager apprenticeship
  • Level 6 Chartered Manager degree apprenticeship
  • Hospitality management degree

Where it leads

  1. Area / operations manager
  2. Operations director
  3. Managing director
  4. Founding your own group

What we'd ask on the show

  • Life on the M25: multi-site management
  • How a group keeps twenty sites feeling like one
  • What head office gets wrong

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