About the opportunityWe are looking for a senior Expansion & New Store Development leader to work with a fast-growing food chain that is entering its next phase of rapid expansion.

This is a fractional leadership mandate for someone who has personally built and scaled the engine behind rapid multi-location expansion.

The mandate is not simply to manage individual store projects. It is to bring structure, speed and predictability to the entire new-store creation process.

What you will be responsible for

- Build a scalable new-store development and expansion playbook
- Drive the process from site identification and feasibility through to store opening and handover
- Establish clear timelines, milestones, ownership and governance for multiple concurrent openings
- Work closely with leadership on location feasibility, store formats, capex and unit economics
- Manage architects, contractors, vendors and other external partners
- Identify and resolve bottlenecks that slow down store openings
- Create a repeatable operating rhythm that can support rapid expansion across multiple cities
- Ensure new stores are opening-ready across projects, operations, people, technology and supply chain
- Track project timelines and costs and provide leadership with transparent visibility on progress and risks
- Build internal capability so that the organisation can eventually manage the expansion engine independently

The ideal profileWe are looking for someone who has actually led rapid new-store rollouts, rather than someone whose experience is primarily in running an existing restaurant network.





You should ideally have

- 15+ years of experience in QSR, F&B;, retail or another multi-location consumer business
- Experience leading rapid store / outlet expansion
- Personally taken multiple locations from site selection / feasibility to opening
- Experience managing several stores simultaneously across cities
- Strong understanding of capex, project management, contractors, vendors and timelines
- Experience creating processes and governance for scalable expansion
- Strong commercial understanding of store-level economics and ROI
- The ability to work effectively with founders / promoters and senior leadership

Experience of having opened 50+ stores/outlets would be highly desirable. This is a fractional leadership roleThe expected engagement is approximately 2–3 days per week, with the flexibility to increase involvement during critical phases of expansion.

This could be particularly attractive to:

- Former senior QSR / F&B; / retail expansion leaders
- Experienced operators who have moved into consulting or advisory work
- Independent consultants / operating advisors
- Senior executives looking for a fractional leadership mandate

- What success will look likeThe successful leader will help the organisation move from “opening stores” to building a predictable, scalable store-expansion engine — enabling the business to open more locations, faster, with greater control over cost, quality and timelines. If you have personally built and scaled a multi-location expansion engine, we would love to hear from you.

📌 Fractional Expansion & New Store Development Leader (Gurugram)
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📍 Gurugram