Franchise Sales Manager

Help Grow One of Australia’s Leading Early Learning Brands

Are you a high-performing sales professional who thrives on building relationships, closing complex deals, and helping businesses grow?

MindChamps Early Learning & Preschool is one of Australia’s leading providers of premium early childhood education and care. As we continue to expand our national footprint, we are seeking an ambitious Franchise Sales Manager to drive the growth of our franchise network across specific states of Australia.

This is more than a sales role it’s an opportunity to partner with entrepreneurs, investors and experienced operators who are passionate about making a meaningful difference in early childhood education while building successful businesses.

If you enjoy consultative selling, developing long-term partnerships, and working with a premium brand that is transforming early learning, we’d love to hear from you.

About MindChamps

MindChamps Early Learning & Preschool is a globally recognised early learning organisation committed to delivering exceptional educational outcomes for children. Our centres are renowned for innovative research-based programmes, highly qualified educators, and strong partnerships with families and local communities.

With ambitious expansion plans across Australia, we are looking for talented professionals who share our commitment to quality, excellence, and sustainable business growth.

The Opportunity

Reporting to the senior leadership team, you will lead the end-to-end franchise development process—from identifying qualified prospects through to successfully awarding new franchises.

Working closely with marketing, operations, finance and legal teams, you will manage a strong sales pipeline while providing prospective franchisees with professional guidance throughout their decision-making journey.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys strategic business development, relationship management and consultative sales.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify and develop new franchise opportunities through networking, referrals, digital marketing campaigns, industry events and targeted business development activities.

• Build, manage and convert a high-quality pipeline of prospective franchisees.

• Conduct discovery meetings to understand each prospect’s business goals, financial capacity and suitability for the MindChamps franchise model.

• Deliver engaging presentations that clearly communicate the commercial benefits and competitive advantages of the MindChamps franchise opportunity.

• Prepare customised franchise proposals, financial models and business cases.

• Guide prospective franchisees through the entire sales process, including due diligence, disclosure documentation and franchise agreement execution.

• Work collaboratively with legal, operations, finance and support teams to deliver a seamless onboarding experience.

• Develop trusted long-term relationships with franchise partners from initial enquiry through commencement of operations.

• Maintain accurate CRM records, sales reporting, forecasting and pipeline management.

• Achieve agreed sales targets, KPIs and national franchise growth objectives.

• Monitor market trends, competitor activity and emerging opportunities within the early childhood education sector.

About You

You are commercially minded, highly motivated and enjoy building lasting business relationships. You are confident engaging with business owners, investors and professionals, and have a proven ability to convert opportunities into successful partnerships.

You’ll also bring:

• 3–5+ years’ experience in franchise sales, business development, B2B sales or a similar consultative sales environment.

• Demonstrated success achieving ambitious sales targets and managing long sales cycles.

• Strong lead generation and pipeline management capability.

• Excellent negotiation, presentation and influencing skills.

• Outstanding interpersonal and relationship-building abilities.

• Strong commercial acumen with the ability to understand financial information and business investment decisions.

• Experience using CRM platforms such as FranchizeManager, Salesforce, HubSpot or similar.

• Excellent organisational and time management skills.

• The ability to work independently while collaborating effectively within a high-performing team.

• A current Australian driver’s licence and willingness to travel interstate when required.

Highly Desirable

Experience in one or more of the following industries will be highly regarded:

• Franchising

• Early childhood education

• Childcare

• Education

• Property development

• Commercial real estate

• Business brokerage

A tertiary qualification in Business, Marketing, Commerce or a related discipline will be viewed favourably.

Why Join MindChamps?

At MindChamps, you’ll represent a respected and established brand within one of Australia’s fastest-growing sectors.

We offer:

• Competitive base salary plus attractive performance incentives.

• The opportunity to earn significant rewards based on your success.

• Professional development and ongoing sales training.

• Career progression within a growing global organisation.

• A collaborative, supportive and high-performing team culture.

• The opportunity to make a genuine impact by helping deliver quality early learning to more Australian families.

Most importantly, you’ll play a key role in expanding a purpose-driven organisation that is shaping the future of early childhood education.

Ready to Join Us?

If you’re an experienced sales professional looking for your next challenge and want to represent a premium franchise brand with strong growth potential, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply now and become part of the MindChamps journey as we continue to expand our network of exceptional early learning centres across Australia.