Future Leaders Graduate Programme

The Role

This isn’t just any role - it’s your chance to shine, grow, and become a key player in our dynamic team if you’re someone who:

• Thrives on challenges
• Never backs down
• Radiates confidence

The organisation is rapidly growing, and we need a high-flying graduate to join our business on the Future Leaders Graduate Programme. This is a fast-track programme to become an Area Coach where the goal is to eventually manage 300 people across a variety of franchise KFC restaurants.

Job Description

The first 12 weeks are all about understanding our business, and how to operate a successful KFC restaurant. This is why we have the accelerator training academy, where you will be exposed to all areas of the restaurant, and become competent as a ‘Team Member’, then ‘Team Leader’, then ‘Assistant Manager’

The goal is to run a successful KFC restaurant leading a team of 20 initially, but this will increase as you develop your career and progress into a senior role.

Duties and Responsibilities

To run a successful KFC restaurant you need to be comfortable in learning the restaurant floor, food safety, food handling and facility management.

Ultimately, we will show ‘How to build a brilliant restaurant’ and then support you to ‘Run it like you own it’.

The Individual

We are looking for graduates who are ambitious, have excellent problem-solving skills, have an entrepreneurial spirit, outstanding planning and organisation skills, ability to juggle multiple projects, and are able to inject initiative for self and the team.

Culture is high on the agenda, and we realise that we can’t be successful without a brilliant team of people alongside us. The ideal candidate will have a ‘people first’ approach, leading with heart at all times.

Salary and Benefits

As this is a future leaders programme, we are offering a £30,000 starting salary. This will increase as you become more competent and develop your career with us.

We also have a LTIP (Long Term Incentive Plan) which triggers a £20,000 bonus (minimum) based on your performance in running the restaurant/restaurants. Upon successful sign off of your restaurant manager training you will receive a ‘golden ticket’ which enrols
you into our Long Terms Incentive Plan. The LTIP entitles you to £20,000 of which 50% is paid out at year 5 service and the rest when you achieve 10 years’ service. Great performance means you’ll have the ability to grow this figure too! Other benefits include: Group life insurance Income protection Critical illness cover Health cash plan 28 days annual leave which increases to 33 at year 5, and 38 at year 10.