Senior Manager, IT Implementation

Based in Pasadena, California, Dine Brands Global, Inc. (NYSE: DIN), through its subsidiaries and franchisees, supports and operates restaurants under the Applebee’s Neighborhood Grill + Bar®, IHOP®, and Fuzzy’s Taco Shop® brands. As of December 28, 2025, these three brands consisted of over 3,500 restaurants across 20 international markets. Dine Brands is one of the largest full-service restaurant companies in the world and in 2022 expanded into the Fast Casual segment.

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The Senior Manager, IT Implementation leads franchisee-facing restaurant technology deployments across IHOP, Applebee’s, and Fuzzy’s. This role will oversee the delivery of POS, payment, endpoint, change-of-ownership, and other multi-location technology initiatives, ensuring each program is well-planned, scalable, and ready for successful restaurant adoption. The Senior Manager will lead a team responsible for implementation planning, operational readiness, vendor coordination, franchisee engagement, issue escalation, documentation, and post-go-live stabilization.

This leader will also strengthen implementation processes using continuous improvement, Six Sigma, and ITIL/ITSM practices to improve consistency, reduce risk, and drive better outcomes across brands. This role partners closely with Restaurant Technology, Product, Engineering, Operations, Finance, Security, Legal, the service desk, brand teams, franchisees, and external technology providers.

• Own the implementation portfolio for franchise facing restaurant technology programs across IHOP, Applebee’s, and Fuzzy’s, including priorities, capacity, schedules, dependencies, budgets, risks, reporting, and follow-up.
• Lead end-to-end deployments for POS, payments, hardware lifecycle, ownership changes, and related restaurant technology initiatives.
• Coordinate cross-functional, vendor, and franchisee planning to resolve dependencies before deployment.
• Manage vendor and partner performance, including SOWs, milestones, staffing, service levels, issues, change control, and commercial accountability.
• Escalate and resolve high-risk implementation issues, franchisee impacts, vendor concerns, and post-go-live stabilization needs.
• Deliver executive reporting on portfolio health, risks, finances, quality, and follow-up actions.

• Standardize implementation processes, playbooks, templates, RACI models, readiness gates, handoffs, and governance routines.
• Embed ITIL/ITSM practices into delivery, including change, service transition, knowledge, incident, problem, request, and continual-improvement processes.
• Create closed-loop feedback processes that connect deployment issues, incidents, vendor performance, franchisee feedback, and post-implementation reviews to corrective action.
• Maintain current, accessible, version-controlled implementation artifacts for franchisees, vendors, deployment teams, service desk, and support functions.
• Establish governance and reporting that provide visibility into demand, capacity, deployment status, exceptions, quality trends, process performance, vendor performance, and improvement benefits.
• Identify opportunities for automation, self-service, standardized intake, notifications and integrated reporting.

• Lead, coach, and develop a multidisciplinary implementation team accountable for delivery, readiness, vendor coordination, documentation, reporting, and transition to support.
• Translate strategy into clear goals, priorities, accountabilities, service expectations, and measurable outcomes.
• Foster a culture of transparency, customer focus, disciplined execution, risk management, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure accurate tracking, documentation, milestone management, dependency coordination, early risk escalation, and timely issue resolution.
• Strengthen cross-functional relationships, clarify ownership, and resolve conflicts across technology, operations, franchise, vendor, and support teams.

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