Saxbys | Philadelphia, PA (Hybrid) | $72,000/year + Annual Bonus + Benefits | Up to 80% Travel
Saxbys is more than a cafe company — it's an Experiential Learning Platform. Every Saxbys cafe is operated by a Student CEO who runs the location as a real business, and it's our Tier 1 cafes — new cafe openings and underperforming locations — where that experience is either built or broken.
As our Senior Leadership Training Manager, you're first and foremost a people leader: you'll recruit, coach, and manage a team of 6+ Leadership Training Specialists, holding weekly 1:1s and a weekly team meeting to develop each of them toward their next role as a New Market Leader or Area Operations Manager. You'll pair that leadership with hands-on execution — leading Grand Openings from the ground up and setting the tone for preparedness and accountability at the cafe level by leading from the front. This is a hands-on, traveling role for someone who thrives on building people as much as building systems.
You're a people manager first — someone who genuinely enjoys developing others, with a track record of managing a team of multiple full-time team members, holding them accountable, and coaching them toward their next role. You've spent real time in four-wall food and beverage or retail operations — enough to know what it takes to run a location and hold a team to a standard under pressure. You're a pattern-matcher and a root-cause thinker: when something breaks at a cafe, you don't just fix it, you figure out why it happened and put a plan in place to stop it from happening again. Ideally you've also run large-scale trainings or events like Grand Openings or camps — the kind of experience that means you can walk onto a chaotic Grand Opening floor and bring order to it. Saxbys experience is a strong plus.
This isn't a desk job — it's the chance to be the person who sets the tone at every new Saxbys cafe and builds the next generation of Saxbys leaders, one Grand Opening at a time. Along with a $72,000 base salary, an annual bonus, and comprehensive benefits, you'll travel across our operating regions (up to 80% of the time) and see the direct impact of your work on cafes, teams, and Student CEOs across the network.
Ready to build something great? Apply today!
Saxbys is a national education company – disguised as a coffee company – on a mission to Make Life Better by supporting and empowering the next generation of leaders and entrepreneurs through experiential learning.
Through the Experiential Learning Platform, Saxbys builds educational partnerships to launch on-campus cafes designed for and led by students. Saxbys E.L.P. cafes provide exceptional, paid, experiential learning opportunities for all students, regardless of major or desired career path. At Saxbys, students develop transferable, industry-agnostic power skills and real, tangible stories of leadership, supercharging their entry into the workforce after graduation. The Saxbys E.L.P. pushes learning beyond the classroom to drive impact outcomes that align with and enhance our education partners’ strategic priorities related to enrollment, retention, belonging, graduation, and career outcomes.
