Business Development Manager (Mat Cover)

We're looking for someone to join our London HQ team, helping to drive expansion and grow our franchise network. This role will be reporting into our Head of Franchise Growth.

Until now, the size of our franchise network has doubled every year quite organically (covid aside). Now with 60 locations, we’re looking to drive this growth forward and bring on someone with strong sales experience who can help grow our franchise network. We’re ambitious and we’ve got big plans for UK growth, so this is an exciting opportunity to make a big impact at Hotpod yoga.

As a Business Development Manager you would be responsible for: 

• Managing the entire Franchise enquiry process, from an initial enquiry, to business planning, all the way through to a successful signing and launch. 
• Working with our Teaching Team to cross-sell our 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training to eligible applicants, managing the enquiry and sales process before it is handed over to the operations team.
• Working closely with our Marketing Team to ensure that they are generating quality leads. 
• Creating compelling and useful collateral to ensure successful signings.
• Speaking to potential Franchisees, answering questions about the business model, helping them with their business plans, assigning territory and generally being the go to person for all queries relating to signings.
• Being the main point of contact at an early stage for potential Franchisees (it is crucial that you are able to develop strong and trusting relationships, with ease)
• Growing the Franchise network, only bringing on Franchise partners who will go on to do great things and run successful businesses, so while there is an ambition to grow, maintaining the quality of our network is also key. 
• Creating processes and systems that streamline and improve the experience of potential Franchisees. 
• Accelerate the flow of the Franchise opportunities through the pipeline.

You will work closely with the Franchise Growth Team through the launch process to start and build businesses for new franchisees too. Armed with an understanding of our best launch practices developed over the last 10 years, you'd have input with rolling out solutions, and providing day-to-day support to franchisees as they grow their businesses. It's fast-paced, high-satisfaction and very multi-faceted. 

Occasional travel within the UK will be required - approximately 10% of the time. You will ideally be based in London where we operate a hybrid working model with a minimum requirement of 3 days working from the HQ in Brixton.

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