Franchise Development Representative; Inside Sales

London, Ontario | Full-Time | Hybrid

Oxford Learning is seeking a strong inside-sales professional to join our Franchise Development team.

This is a new role focused on the top of our franchise recruitment pipeline. You will be the first point of contact for prospective franchise owners and will be responsible for responding quickly to all new inquiries, qualifying serious candidates, advancing them to the next stage, and keeping opportunities moving through the sales process.

This is a great opportunity for someone who likes the phone, works with urgency, and is comfortable talking about money and business ownership.

In this role you will work closely with the Franchise Development team and gain exposure to the entire franchise sales process, from first inquiry through signed agreement and new-centre opening.

New inquiries come directly to you. You will respond quickly, makeas many attempts as required to reach qualified prospects, and conduct structured introductory calls to understand their motivation to join our Oxford Learning family. You'll note their location, investment capacity, timeline, and decision-making process.

Your goal is not simply to make calls. It is to identify serious prospective franchise owners and move them forward. When a candidate is qualified, you will complete the next-step documentation with them and book their meeting with one of our Franchise Development Specialists.

Not every strong candidate is ready immediately. You will manage ongoing follow-up and re-engagement through phone, email, text, and marketing automation, making sure good opportunities are not lost.

You will keep the CRM current and accurate, including logging all call activity, lead status, next steps, follow-up dates, recordings, and pipeline information.

You will help produce the funnel metrics we use to manage franchise development, including response times, qualification activity, meetings booked, meeting attendance, lead sources, and pipeline progression.

You may currently work in inside sales, business development, recruitment, admissions, financial services, franchise development, or another phone-based commercial role.

More important than the industry is how you work.

You should be someone who:

• Has at least two years of experience in a phone-forward sales or business-development role
• Has excellent communication skills and is confident speaking with experienced business people and prospective business owners
• Can ask direct questions about finances, investment capacity, motivation, and timing
• Communicates professionally and naturally without sounding scripted
• Understands that strong follow-up is part of professional selling
• Keeps commitments and follows through without needing to be chased
• Is highly organized and comfortable managing multiple opportunities at different stages
• Is comfortable working in a CRM such as Zoho, Salesforce, Hub Spot, or a similar platform
• Writes clearly and professionally

Experience in franchising, marketing automation, education, multi-unit businesses, or professional services is an asset. French language skills are also an asset.

Base salary: $56,000 to $62,000 / year, depending on experience

Performance compensation:
Quarterly performance bonus with a $10,000 annual target and additional upside for strong performance, plus a per-transaction incentive on completed franchise sales and resales.

Expected first-year total earnings:
Approximately $66,000 to $72,000, depending on experience, ramp-up, individual performance, and completed transactions.

As you develop, you will also gain exposure to more advanced franchise-development activities and opportunities to take on greater responsibility within the team.

Oxford Learning offers:

• Comprehensive extended health and dental benefits
• Life and AD&D insurance
• Group RRSP
• Employee assistance program
• Generous vacation time
• Additional paid company holidays

This is a full-time, permanent hybrid position:
Head Office for three days a week minimum and as required with hybrid arrangements up to two days per week.

Oxford Learning Head Office

747 Hyde Park Road, London, Ontario

• Three days per week the work hours will be from 9:00 a.m. to 5:0 0 p.m.
• Two days a week will run on flex-time from approximately…