Alexander Schoonover
Salt Lake City
Summary
Relationship and culture driven leader. Experienced with strategic planning, business analysis, and stakeholder management. Utilizes collaborative approach to drive team success and achieve organizational goals. Track record of implementing effective solutions that enhance operational efficiency and client satisfaction.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
Work History
Lead Business Consultant
Dominos Pizza
01.2024 - Current
- Influence 17 franchisees through solid relationships and numbers-based recommendations. Reach that spans 142 locations in the Utah, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Nevada, and Colorado areas
- Manage the SFA and contractual relationship, administering and curing defaults
- Collaborate with Development department to find opportunities for new DAs and hold franchisees accountable to current DAs. Portfolio had a net store growth of +7 in 2025
- Leverage marketing data to influence franchisees to optimize local coupons, meta spends, and pricing strategies to increase the lift of every marketing campaign
- Have taken portfolio metrics from bottom third in the country to top third within a year from hire date
- Plan and execute new product rollouts. Oversaw the rollout of stuffed crust pizza to a 20% product mix and a 90% CSAT score
- Oversaw and audited the overhaul of store operational processes. Leveraged new systems to decrease portfolio delivery times by 10%
- Readied portfolio for the next generation of technology. Chose test stores, worked closely with franchisees, and kept feedback loop intact. Took part in the cut table tech, pulse 4.0, and advanced makeline rollouts.
Operations Manager
Hydration Room
07.2021 - 04.2022
- Achieved operational efficiency by conducting gap and SWAT analyses.
- Streamlined scheduling through information systems, reducing labor costs by 6%.
- Increased employee retention by 25-50% with a newly launched tipping system.
- Developed management structure for a 10-clinic operation, enhancing oversight.
- Established repeatable operational systems, positioning company for future franchising.
Operating Partner
Jimmy Johns Franchise Group
06.2015 - 06.2020
- Managed a staff of 140 employees
- Built a management team of 15, internal hires, through training and a positive culture
- Scaled the business from one location to five
- Executed yearly sales of $3,000,000, achieving year over year comps of 11% over market average
- Established and maintained a positive culture across multiple locations
- Evaluated new real estate opportunities
Regional Director of New Store Openings
JIMMY JOHNS LLC
06.2005 - 06.2014
- Tracked the development progress of 25 franchisee groups and 50 locations at a time
- Hired, trained, and managed eight other traveling, store opening specialists, all with varying experience
- Oversaw a 2-year period of extreme growth, averaging 7 new store openings a week
- Awarded a Rolex for the distinction of department employee of the year in 2014
- Assisted with the opening of over 400 franchise locations.
- Systemized the store opening process for a 2700 store corporation.
- Traveled 48 weeks out of the year to audit and train location readiness
- Executed first week sales ranging from $7,000 to $70,000
- Lead weeks long turnaround efforts at under preforming locations
Education
Bachelor of Science - Business Administration
Fowler College of Business, San Diego State University
San Diego, CA05.2023
Skills
- Fifteen years in operations
- Project management
- Franchise Development
- Business Analysis
- Strategic thinking
- P&L management
- Employee engagement and management
- High emotional intelligence
- Relationship management
- Organizational culture development
- Marketing analysis
- Business process reengineering
Timeline
Lead Business Consultant
Dominos Pizza
01.2024 - Current
Operations Manager
Hydration Room
07.2021 - 04.2022
Operating Partner
Jimmy Johns Franchise Group
06.2015 - 06.2020
Regional Director of New Store Openings
JIMMY JOHNS LLC
06.2005 - 06.2014
Bachelor of Science - Business Administration
Fowler College of Business, San Diego State University