Area Director

Candidates must reside in the Indianapolis, IN market

Our Story: It’s no surprise that our story is a little unconventional. After all, Papa Murphy’s brought an entirely new approach to the pizza industry. But our unique idea is a simple one. We focus on using quality ingredients, prepared fresh daily, to offer our guests everyday meal solutions to take ‘n’ bake at home with ease. That commitment to quality and creativity extends beyond just our delicious and craveable products. At Papa Murphy’s it is our mission to create a culture of collaboration, accountability, and inclusion. Because we know that what makes us great isn’t just what we make, it’s what we make together.

At Papa Murphy’s, we don’t think it’s cheesy to love where you work. Bringing happiness to guests one fresh pizza at a time is a great start, but the Area Director role has many other rewarding benefits.

Position Overview: In this engaging leadership role, the Area Director champions Papa Murphy’s commitment to quality, service, integrity, and teamwork by:

• Creating a positive experience and culture for your employees every day
• Hiring, training, developing, managing, and evaluating an ambitious, efficient crew of employees
• Emanating incredible customer service and training store personnel to do the same.
• Flexing your business skills to create efficient operations, happy guests, and profit
• Ensuring Multi-Unit and Store Managers effectively complete duties, such as providing accurate reports, tracking and reconciling coupons and certificate, and creating and posting crew work schedules 
•  Ensuring all stores meet standards for optimum costs, top-notch performance, and Federal, State and Local labor laws.
•  Ensuring all prep areas, equipment, and utensils meet sanitary standards in accordance with company and local health department standards.
• Baking up effective sales-building and creative local store marketing plans
• Upholding our commitment to proper operational, health, and reconciliation procedures
•  Taking the lead in opening new stores

What we bring to the table:

• Salary range: $55,000-$75,000. Actual offer may vary from posted hiring range based on location, work experience, and/or education.
• Competitive insurance benefits including medical, dental, vision, HSA, and FSA (dependent care/medical)
• Company paid life, accidental death & dismemberment, and long-term disability insurance
• Optional supplemental life, accidental death & dismemberment, and short-term disability insurance
• 401(k) retirement account with employer match and immediate vesting
• Paid time off accrual account (starts at 15 days per year, with an additional day added annually up to 25 days)
• 10 paid holidays per year, plus an additional 2 floating holidays
• 8 Hours of Papa Cares Volunteer Hours per year
• Paid Parental Bonding Leave
• Tuition Assistance
• Employee Assistance Program

What you bring to the table:

• 5 – 7 years of awesome supervisory experience at another lucky QSR
• Multi-unit experience
• ServSafe certification required – you’re a food and beverage safety expert!
• Ability to wow an audience with strong communication skills
• Exceptional customer service skills and strategies to keep customers lining up for more pizza
• Technically wholesome: Adequate computer skills, including MS Word, Excel, Outlook, and POS.
• Getting down to business: You have the know, or at least want to learn, how to analyze store financials, P&Ls, break-even, food costs, labor and other financial information to positively impact store operations
• You know how to meet deadlines, just like you know how to service a customer quickly and efficiently 
• Must be able to travel, by air and car…no, not just for personal vacations, but for business purposes
• Stand and walk, reach with hands, and arms, bend and stoop, kneel or crouch; this job has you on your feet up to 75% of the time.
• Must be able to lift and/or move up to 30 pounds. (Not as heavy as a lion or a mixer!)
• Candidates must reside in the Indianapolis, IN market

Please note:

The intent of this job description is to provide a representation of the types of duties and responsibilities that will be required in this position and shall not be construed as a declaration of the total of the specific duties and responsibilities of any particular position. Employees may be directed to perform job-related tasks other than those specifically presented in this description.

Papa Murphy's provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Salary : $55,000 - $75,000