Senior Director, 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.

We are searching for a logical visionary to inspire and create restaurant designs that excel in the customer and employee experiences they offer, achieve the highest levels of efficiency in construction and operation, are respectful of the planet and serve as beacons for the Brand.

The Sr. Director, Global Restaurant Design will lead a team that owns McDonald’s restaurant design strategy and standards (restaurant formats, layout principles, facades, interior décor palettes, family & play solutions, terrace, drive-thru signage etc), is responsible for driving delivery of new design solutions and for facilitating their execution across our markets, globally.

This role will be based in the Speedee Labs facility at our Chicago HQ.

Restaurant Development is a critical priority in our Accelerating the Arches strategy, and this role has responsibility for providing innovative designs and formats that support our acceleration of profitable new restaurant openings, while continuing to reimage our current portfolio to grow sales.

Achieving those aspirations requires the successful candidate to appreciate that success lies at the perfect intersection of Function and Form, needs the harnessing of diversity of thought and realities from across the business and the application of a highly curious nature to inspire the very best solutions for the business.

Extended Role Requirements

• Strategic leadership and alignment

• Collaboration and connectedness with Segments, Markets, and cross-functional partners, plus external agencies and suppliers
• Appreciation and interpretation of customer and employee insights and franchisee expectations.
• Executional excellence and accountability for results
• A talent champion & role model

The ideal candidate is a natural self-starter and creative problem solver who possesses strong strategic and creative expertise working for world class multi-site brands. They will already be leading (or will have led) a significantly sized Design function in a business pursuing aggressive new unit growth and that is renowned for its customer focus.

 More specifically:

• Bachelor’s degree in design or architecture, or equivalent
• Experience leading in a large, matrixed organization.
• Proven track record of designing for scaling
• Excellent oral, written and overall communications skills (including presentation and storytelling skills)
• Strong work ethic with a passion, energy and enthusiasm for the journey ahead at McDonald’s
• Global mentality - working within and contributing to a globally understood picture of business priorities and keeping global audiences and impacts for the business and external environment front of mind
• Ability to Influence, both externally and internally

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 [email protected]. Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis.

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