Training Manager

The Wonderfield Group has recently been purchased by Zensho Holdings, the leading food service company in Japan with a market cap of $5.5b and whose aim is to become the worlds largest food company, a position from which we can eradicate hunger and poverty from around the globe. We operate restaurants, factories, and thousands of sushi kiosks and have recently built a successful cut fruit business, Snowfruit. Combining this with the three businesses previously owned by Zensho, AFC, Sushi Circle and Sushi Take, results in annual sales of $2.5b and Ebitda in excess of $140m a year with an ambitious growth trajectory.

Essential Skills / Knowledge:

• Experienced training professional. A background in operations is desirable
• Experience in facilitating
• Intermediate to advanced IT skills (MS Office 365), specifically Teams
• Passion for coaching
• Stakeholder engagement and commercially minded
• Excellent planning, organising and time management skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Self-motivation and ability to work on one’s own
• Great attention to detail and accuracy
• Ability to anticipate needs and to react quickly to demands
• Great flexibility
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Overview of the role

**** Cover the South and Central regions ********

The Retail Training Manager is critical in providing classroom-based learning, ‘on-the-shopfloor’ support as well as creating and implementing learning content for retail kiosks.
The successful applicant will have proven training experience and have a hospitality/retail operations or training background at Manager (or equivalent level). You will be working as part of a progressive Learning and Development team and must be commercially minded ensuring training support is beneficial, attractive, and cost effective to the end user and business.

• Proven experience in food service or franchise training, ideally within fresh food retail or restaurant environments.
• Strong understanding of kiosk operations in grocery environments.
• Experienced in managing multiple training programs across both franchised and corporate retail formats.
• Skilled in designing and delivering training content including SOPs, e-learning modules, and practical, hands-on materials.
• Confident facilitator across both classroom and operational training environments.
• Strong coaching and mentoring skills, with a passion for developing individuals and teams.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement, and interpersonal skills.
• Commercially minded, with the ability to align training initiatives with wider business objectives.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office 365, especially Teams, and experienced with digital learning platforms such as Attensi.
• Highly organised and self-motivated, with excellent planning, time management, and attention to detail.
• Adaptable and flexible, able to respond quickly to changing priorities and business needs.
• Comfortable working independently or collaboratively within cross-functional teams.
• Level 3 Food Safety certification (or equivalent) preferred.
• Ability to travel frequently across the UK to support franchise, PAC and corporate locations.

We're proud to offer:

• Opportunity to grow your career alongside with us with available apprentice program
• Brilliant support services designed to enhance your physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
• Annual discretionary bonus subject to business and overall performance
• Discretionary Life Assurance
• Discretionary Income Protection
• Group Personal Pension
• Private Medical Cash Plan
• Bespoke reward platform including access to retail, cinema & gym discounts.
• 50% off your food every time you dine with us for you and 3 friends.
• Contribute towards our award-winning sustainability initiatives that delivers progress against 9 UN sustainability goals. We're committed to responsibly sourcing and all our seafood, therefore we only use source sustainable fish. All our packaging is recyclable and 80% of our packaging is already made from recycled plastic.
• Annual Awards ceremony celebrating our success and offering winning Managers free trips to Japan.

About us:

Come roll with us and be part of something big. Celebrate global success across:

• Over 1500 retail kiosks globally (YO!, Panku, Mai Taiko Snowfox & Bento)
• Our Taiko manufacturing and distribution centre
• 63 YO! restaurants
• 50 major retail partners
• 3700 locations globally From Hawaii to Aberdeen

Our Values

• Own it, Care About it, Make it Exceptional, Win Together

Ready to Roll?

Come roll with us and play a key role by bringing people together to celebrate better food for everyone the Japanese way...