Restaurant M&A and Franchise Transactions Manager

The Restaurant Portfolio Manager is responsible for managing complex, high-impact restaurant portfolio initiatives across multiple brands, including acquisitions and dispositions of corporately owned restaurants and franchisee-to-franchisee transfers. This role partners closely with Finance, Legal, Real Estate, Operations, HR, Accounting, and Franchisees to evaluate and approve franchise transfers and execute transactions efficiently from initial analysis through post-close cleanup.

The Portfolio Manager plays a critical role in advancing enterprise portfolio strategy by providing strong financial analysis, operational insight, process discipline, and proactive problem-solving across a high-volume, fast-paced transaction environment.

Education Qualifications

• Minimum: Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field
• Preferred: MBA or Master’s Degree in Finance

Experience Qualifications

• Minimum 3+ years of experience in corporate finance, investment banking, transaction advisory, corporate M&A.

Required Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Strong technical, analytical, and problem-solving skills with an emphasis on financial returns
• Sound knowledge of financial principles
• Excellent communication skills and ability to navigate through a Transaction Process involving Franchisees, Financing Institutions. Attorneys, Investment Bankers/Business Brokers, and Landlords
• Ability to manage a process involving cross functional teams in the execution of M&A Financial Transactions
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Power Point and experience working with various Financial Systems and Valuation Models. Working knowledge Microsoft Word, Microsoft Outlook
• Preferred: Negotiating Experience

Inspire is a multi-brand restaurant company whose portfolio includes more than 33,000 Arby’s, Baskin-Robbins, Buffalo Wild Wings, Dunkin’, Jimmy John’s, and SONIC restaurants worldwide.

We’re made up of some of the world’s most iconic restaurant brands, but we’re much more than just a restaurant company. We’re a team of hundreds of thousands who individually and collectively are changing the way people eat, drink, and gather around the table. We know that food is much more than a staple—it’s an experience. At Inspire, that’s our purpose: to ignite and nourish flavorful experiences.