Senior Manager, Global Restaurant Design

McDonald’s is proud to be one of the most recognized brands in the world, with restaurants in over 100 countries that serve 70 million customers daily. We continue to operate from a position of strength. Our updated growth strategy is focused on staying ahead of what our customers want and realizing further growth potential. Our relentless ambition is why McDonald’s remains one of the world’s leading corporations after almost 70 years. Joining McDonald's means thinking big and preparing for a career that can have influence around the world.

At McDonald’s, we see every day as a chance to create positive impact. We lead through our values centered on inclusivity, service, integrity, community and family. From support of Ronald McDonald House Charities to our Youth Opportunity project and sustainability initiatives, our values keep us dedicated to using our scale for good: good for our customers, people, industry and planet. We also offer a broad range of outstanding benefits including a sabbatical program, tuition assistance and flexible work arrangements.

We are enjoying the flexibility of a hybrid work model, in which employees spend part of their week connecting with co-workers in our state-of-the-art headquarters. Located in the booming West Loop of downtown Chicago, it's set up to be a global hub that cultivates collaboration:

• Take a class at Hamburger University
• Sample future items in our Test Kitchen
• Utilize the latest technology to connect with your team around the globe

We are an equal opportunity employer committed to the diversity of our crew members, staff, operators, and suppliers. We promote an inclusive work environment that creates feel-good moments for everyone.

The Restaurant Experience Team has a global responsibility, working with development leads for US, IOM, and IDL Segments & Global Development team to identify and address opportunities to elevate the customer & and employee experience, fueling the ability to accelerate new store development & and grow sales of the existing portfolio. The scope includes but is not limited to the following: Experience Strategy (eg incl Memories Together & Simply Easy Discovery Spaces), Interior Decors, Customer & Crew Components & and Corporate Design. In addition, to collaborate across Global, Segment and market leadership teams to enable the creation of shared talent pipelines for Restaurant Design and development capabilities in partnership with People teams.

Job Responsibilities

• Contribute to elevating CX & EX through aesthetic/experiential design/solutions.
  • The scope can include interior/terrace decors, crew facilities, brand extensions, family & play, acoustics, lighting, addressing sustainability challenges, optimizing initial investment and efficiency of operation, all while ensuring solutions stay true to brand and allow markets sufficient license to address local constraints/conditions. Note: restaurant architecture (layouts/configurations, façade design & exterior signage), rests with the Restaurant Model Team.
• Provide input/expertise in designing immersive and memorable physical experiences that engage the senses and evoke emotions to keep tempting customers back to our restaurants and continue to attract staff.
• Consult with MHQ facilities and WWC teams on Corporate Design initiatives.
• Establish briefs capturing the requirements to be satisfied by new Global Restaurant Design solutions.
• Lead to the creative process to develop Restaurant Design concepts to satisfy the established briefs that have global applicability.
• Engage with internal and external partners to produce successful design solutions that holistically address the needs of the business and its application globally.
• Perform supplier/consultant identification & development.
• Pursue prototyping of components/materials & refinements of pilots in market 0/1 to test design solutions and refine as needed to facilitate effective scaling globally.
• Adapt or enhance quality or value in existing methods; make them better as part of day-to-day activities.
• Collaborate with & support Integration Team on:-
  • Establishment of approvals for any products/solutions required by the aesthetic/experiential design that need to be integrated into GRS (eg lockers)
  • Production of guidelines and training of Segment teams to facilitate excellence in design deployment.
  • Inquiries from Segment (high profile locations/those demanding unique solutions, concept localization)
  • Design of Brand Flagship locations
  • Engineering etc solutions/standards to facilitate procurement by GSSS.
  • On ‘seeding’ new experience designs in Segments
• Transfer knowledge to the design activation team to allow them to create guidelines and training materials for global scaling.
• Contribute to supporting the development of talent across various Markets, and Global and Segment teams to help develop a pool of strong Restaurant Design and/or development professionals.
• Engagement of all internal and external stakeholders is required to produce a successful design solution that holistically addresses the needs of the business.
• Influence without the direct exercise of command; persuasion is required to effect change.
• Demonstrate strong communication skills allowing to engage with individuals who may hold different perspectives but share a common interest, primarily motivated by a shared goal of finding a resolution.
• Play an active role in contributing to the performance of the Team.

• BA or equivalent in architecture or experiential design
• 5 years of experience in multi-site food and beverage design.
• Requires sophisticated knowledge of specific technical/operational practices.
• Proven track record driving outcomes with internal and external partners

McDonald’s is an equal opportunity employer committed to the diversity of our workforce. We promote an inclusive work environment that creates feel-good moments for everyone. McDonald’s provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities as part of the application or hiring process or to perform the essential functions of their job. If you need assistance accessing or reading this job posting or otherwise feel you need an accommodation during the application or hiring process, please contact mcdhrbenefits@us.mcd.com. Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis.

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