Training Manager

  • Wonderfield Group
  • Southampton, Hampshire
  • Oct 18, 2025
Full time Education

Job Description

Training Manager Head Office - Wonderfield Group Contract: Full Time
Salary: 44,000
Contracted Hours: 40

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 flexibilit

Overview of the role

The Franchise Training Manager will be critical in providing both classroom learning as well as 'on-the-shop-floor' support for the franchise owned kiosks. They will be responsible for all the learning content and programs related to franchise.

The successful applicant will have proven training experience and have a hospitality operations background at Manager (or equivalent level). You will be working as part of a progressive, digitally led operations team and must be commercially minded ensuring training support is beneficial, attractive, and cost effective to the end user.

We're proud to offer:

  • Fantastic hybrid working environment working Mon- Thurs on site and generally Fridays from home.
  • 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 &am