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Chief Executive Officer - QSR
Description:
We are seeking an experienced and visionary Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to lead a rapidly expanding QSR chain in India, backed by a major Private Equity firm. The CEO will be responsible for driving strategic growth, operational excellence, brand expansion, and profitability across formats and geographies.
This role requires a leader with deep QSR/restaurant/retail expertise, strong financial acumen, a track record in scaling multi-outlet businesses, and experience steering organisations through aggressive expansion and transformation.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Strategic Leadership & Vision:
- Set and execute the long-term strategy to take the company from 500 Cr to its next phase of scale.
- Work closely with the Board and PE partner to define growth priorities, investment areas, and value-creation roadmaps.
- Drive new market expansion, format evolution, and technology-led transformation.
2. Operational Excellence:
- Ensure world-class operations across all outlets - product consistency, speed of service, hygiene, quality, and customer experience.
- Strengthen SOPs, supply chain efficiency, and cost leadership across the network.
- Build robust systems for daily operations, central kitchen efficiency, and multi-city execution.
3. P&L Ownership & Financial Management:
- Full ownership of P&L, revenue growth, profitability, margins, and operational KPIs.
- Lead budgeting, forecasting, store-level economics, and unit-level profitability improvement.
- Implement cost-optimisation initiatives without compromising brand standards.
4. Network Expansion & New Store Rollout:
- Oversee the rollout of new outlets, including site selection, feasibility studies, and capex optimisation.
- Drive cluster-based expansion across priority geographies.
- Execute brand standardisation across formats (dine-in, express, delivery-heavy stores).
5. Brand, Marketing & Customer Experience:
- Strengthen the brands positioning in a competitive QSR market.
- Guide menu innovation, pricing, promotions, digital strategy, and CRM initiatives.
- Ensure customer experience stays at industry-leading levels.
6. Team Leadership & Culture:
- Build and lead a high-performance leadership team across operations, supply chain, HR, finance, marketing, and technology.
- Establish a culture of accountability, agility, and operational discipline across the organisation.
- Develop succession planning and talent capability-building at store, area, and regional levels.
7. Governance, Compliance & Board Management:
- Ensure strong corporate governance, reporting, risk management, and compliance with regulatory, food safety, and labour laws.
- Drive transparency and consistent communication with the Board and PE partner.
- Present performance dashboards, growth plans, and transformation initiatives regularly.
Ideal Candidate Profile:
- 1825 years of total experience, with at least 810 years in leadership roles within QSR, food service, restaurants, or multi-outlet retail.
- Proven track record of scaling a multi-location business in India.
- Strong experience managing large P&Ls of 500 Cr or more.
- Deep understanding of Indian QSR operations, supply chain, real estate, and consumer behaviour.
- Experience collaborating with Private Equity investors is a strong advantage.
- Demonstrated capability in turnaround, scaling, or rapid expansion environments.
- Strong leadership, commercial acumen, and ability to inspire large teams.
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Job Code
1647039
