Associate General Manager

845 HWY 401 EASTBOUND PORT HOPE L1A 3W3
ONroute Associate General Manager (One Year Contract)
ONroute is a Canadian company that provides a clean, safe & friendly environment at our 23 travel centres along the busy 401 and 400 highways in Ontario. We are open 24/7/365, to proudly serve over 40 million customers each year who stop in to our plazas for our quick service food brands and convenience needs.
Using a focused tactical approach, the ONroute Associate General Manager is accountable and responsible for managing all day-to-day plaza activities across 1 to 2 locations and the safe operation and maintenance of all property including on-site machinery and facilities. Reporting to the General Manager or Regional General Manager, you are accountable for achieving targeted sales and objectives, profitability and audit standards Yow will be responsible for the hiring, coaching, training, and developing of your team including Brand Managers and ONcare Crew, to deliver great customer service and franchise brand experience.
As an Associate General Manager, your accountabilities and core responsibilities include:

- Communicating and achieving all plaza(s) level budgeted financial targets and the development of proactive action plans to support targets’ achievement
- Ensuring that all labour, ordering and inventory targets are achieved
- Provide consistent recruitment, training, development and coaching of your team to achieve business goals
- Achieving compliance and audit standards (brands, customer service, health & safety and government agencies), completing daily records (MTO/ MIC logs/ brand and temperature logs), and training in all brands
- Delivering effective communication and executing on-time implementation of all ONroute and brand initiatives

**Inventory and Ordering Accountability**: You are accountable for the inventory levels at your assigned plaza(s) which means delivering budgeted food cost targets including waste, par builds and variances, while ensuring the effective set up and maintenance of accurate data in the inventory management system. You are accountable to ensure that plazas’ orders are placed, received, stored, and reconciled on time. You are responsible to share and effectively communicate specific financial targets and goals with each of your Brand Managers, so they are clear on what they must deliver. These will be provided by your District Director or Regional General Manager. You are responsible to ensure training, coaching, and managing food cost on the floor daily with your team including posting pro-active action plans, production build charts that are current and followed and waste is entered and reviewed daily for accuracy.
**Brand, Audit & Customer Service Accountability**: You are accountable to role model and ensure compliance with government regulations, meeting health & safety requirements outlined by the Employment Standards Act Ontario, mandatory postings are accurate and up to date and Joint Health & Safety Committees are in place and inspections are completed to meet all regulations across assigned plaza(s). All audits must meet or exceed standards (including but not limited to Franchise Brands, MTO, Health Units, MOL, EcoSure). You are required to complete self audits/ assessments at the required intervals (i.e., daily, weekly) at all levels in each of your plaza’s brands; and subsequently developing action plans to immediately address and correct opportunities.
You are accountable to achieve the highest quality of customer service at all brands, ensuring that your Brand Managers are working alongside their teams to deliver the highest level of customer experience and provide coaching and adjustments as required. You are accountable for the effective communication and enforcement of the employee code of conduct, all employee relations, asset management and all other ONroute policies and procedures. You hold your teams accountable to follow all of ONroute’s procedures and policies.
**Team and Health & Safety Accountability**: You are accountable overall for your plaza(s) team member recruitment, training and development. You will recruit, train and develop your direct reports which includes communicating clear performance expectations and providing feedback and coaching to ensure expectations are met. You recognize positive performance on a regular basis. You are responsible to write and deliver annual performance evaluations and from this review, develop SMART Goals with your management team to align with company initiatives. These goals should be reviewed periodically throughout the year and adjusted as necessary with appropriate action plans.
In order to provide a safe environment for our teams and customers, you are responsible to ensure all day-to-day Health & Safety processes and procedures are followed in your plaza(s). You are accountable for ensuring that all scheduling meets the achievement of labour targets for each brand and overall plazas, while meetin