Business & Leadership Director | Enrich Development Program Participant
This Isn't a Job. It's a Launch Pad.
Most roles ask you to show up, clock in, and execute. This one asks something different: Are you ready to lead?
Chick-fil-A Perry is seeking a driven, leadership & entrepreneurially-minded individual to join the Enrich Development Program (EDP) — a structured, two-year leadership development experience designed to rapidly elevate you from contributor to business leader. This is a hand-selected program with limited seats, built for someone who is hungry for real responsibility, craves mentorship, and is serious about launching a meaningful career. You won't be sitting in a classroom. You won't be watching from the sidelines. From day one, you will be learning the business from the ground up. Then leading it.
What You'll Actually Be Doing
The EDP is structured around four core leadership tracks that build progressively over two years:
Lead Yourself — Master personal effectiveness, emotional intelligence, strength-based leadership, and professional discipline. The best leaders lead themselves first.
Lead With Others — Build and lead a team. Set shared goals, establish culture, solve problems collaboratively, and grow real trust within a high-performing organization.
Lead Others — Develop people. Conduct one-on-ones, facilitate meetings, coach and train team members, and learn what it means to multiply your impact through others.
Lead the Business — Own real results. Set key business goals, manage operational systems and processes, contribute to HR, marketing, and recruiting strategy, and understand the financials that drive a successful enterprise.
A Program Built Around Your Growth
This program doesn't hand you a manual and wish you luck. Growth is intentional and supported at every stage:
Direct mentorship from the Owner/Operator — Regular 45–60 minute coaching sessions, one-on-one, outside the restaurant. This is rare access.
Curated leadership library — Books tied to program milestones, connecting leadership theory directly to what you're experiencing on the floor.
Bi-Monthly one-on-ones — Personalized training focused on operations, management, and leadership development.
Offsite leadership meetings — Strategic discussions with the Director team to align, decide, and grow the business together.
Quarterly life planning sessions — A unique investment in your whole person, not just your job performance.
Digital literacy and financial training — P&L management, labor and food cost leadership, sales forecasting, AI and automation tools, CRM marketing, and more.
The growth model is 70% on-the-job experience and 30% coached instruction — the same ratio professionals use to develop world-class skills.
You'll Have Access to a Bigger Stage
The EDP connects you to the broader Chick-fil-A network in ways most positions never will:
Travel opportunities with Chick-fil-A, Inc. across the country
Participation in Grand Openings and Company Owned Restaurant (COR) events nationwide
Exposure to Chick-fil-A, Inc. field talent and staff roles
Networking near Chick-fil-A's Support Center — one of the most respected brands in the country
WinShape Programs, Area Market events, and regional marketing opportunities
This program is intentionally designed to launch you — into Chick-fil-A's Leadership Development Program (LDP), the Training Director Program (TDP), an Operator path, a Chick-fil-A Inc. staff role, or a high-performing career in business leadership of your choosing.
Compensation & Benefits
We invest in the people we develop. Program participants receive:
Competitive pay
Scholarship opportunities
Professional attire stipend
Leadership development per diem
Phone stipend
"Fit to Lead" wellness stipend
Shake N Pay performance bonuses
Flexible scheduling
Sundays off
Free food privileges
Health, vision, and dental insurance opportunities
Healthiest You app network access
What We're Looking For
We are looking for someone who is humble, hungry, and strong-minded — a person who wants to be challenged, is eager for meaningful development, and is ready to invest in others the way this program will invest in them.
Hold a degree from an accredited four-year college or university, or are within a handful semesters of completing one.
Have at least one year of leadership experience in a professional, athletic, academic, or organizational setting
Are ready to commit to a two-year employment and development journey
Can commit to up to three evening periods per week
Are curious, resourceful, and don't wait to be "shown" — you ask questions and try
Want to grow in emotional intelligence, business acumen, public speaking, and people leadership
Are motivated by challenge, not deterred by it
About
About Chick-fil-A Perry:
Located in Perry, GA — "Where Georgia Comes Together" — our restaurant is operated by Steven Richardson, a Chick-fil-A Owner/Operator with over a decade of experience in the brand, including leading a top-20% customer metrics location in Southern California where he won back-to-back Symbol of Success awards.
Steven's purpose is to inspire excellence through significance — and that's exactly what this program is built to do.
Perry is one of Georgia's fastest-growing cities, 90 miles south of Atlanta, home to the Georgia National Fairgrounds and a thriving downtown. It's a great place to build your career and your life.
We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or any other protected characteristic.
Chick-fil-A Perry | 1600 Sam Nunn Blvd., Perry, GA 31069 | 478.919.7436 | 04762@chick-fil-a.com