Director, Planning and Technology

Duties

Principal Accountabilities in addition to following McDonald’s policies and procedures, principal accountabilities include, but are not limited to:

People

• Facilitates professional growth of the team through leadership, training, and mentoring.
• Actively participates in the transfer of knowledge across technology and analytics leaders in other MHQ departments.
• Proactively engages with senior leadership to communicate team priorities, provide updates on key initiatives, and ensure alignment with organizational goals.

The Position

• Manages two teams: One team is primarily responsible for optimizing project scheduling, planning, and providing analytics around the real estate pipeline, plan progress on openings and supporting initiatives within Reinvestment with analytics. The second team provides data integration efficiencies and prototypes nimble applications for the whole department and is really focused on business process improvements.
• Provides strategic leadership for development initiatives within the U.S. This includes real estate planning (signings and opens), resource planning, reinvestment planning, and execution strategies on how to move faster/work more efficiently utilizing technology.
• Manages the planning function for development including the annual plan process, long-term strategic plans and G&A.
• Liaison with partner department including Finance, Field Offices, Finance, Legal, Operations, Franchising, and IT on short- and long-term strategies/proactive problem solving.

Relationships

Key relationships include Senior VP of Development, Senior Development Directors, Development Directors, Real Estate and Construction Managers, U.S. Finance, Franchising, Legal and IT Leadership.