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You are balancing same store sales, new unit openings, and guest satisfaction while labor, food cost, and supply chain volatility refuse to cooperate. The right executive lifts AUV, tightens unit economics, and protects culture. Think operators who shave minutes off kitchen ops and speed drive thru without denting hospitality scores. Builders who scale menu innovation and new formats with clean P and L impact. Tech minded leaders who use data to fix the morning rush, cut waste, and sharpen forecasting. You get tighter slates, fewer interviews, faster ramp to 90 days, and board ready clarity from day one.
How MSH Delivers QSR Talent
We follow a structured, consultative process to ensure you receive top QSR talent fast. Here’s how we make it happen.
1. Board mandate and success profile
Align with CEO and board on outcomes tied to comp sales, margin, digital growth, and franchise health. Lock the scorecard, decision makers, and timeline so there is no drift.
2. Market intelligence and target list
Map competitor benches, PE portfolios, and franchise systems. Pull performance signals and change velocity. Use Aeon Hire to visualize pipeline health and ensure diverse slates with real depth.
3. Discreet outreach and qualification
Engage seated executives with multi unit scale. Validate scale fit, turnaround versus scale stories, and franchisee empathy. Guard confidentiality at every touch.
4. Proof based assessment
Operator led interviews with scenario work tied to drive thru, menu, supply chain, and digital. Triangulate references and reputation checks. Document risk flags and mitigation options.
5. Curated executive slate and board ready artifacts
Three to five finalists with track record narratives, comp structures, and relocation constraints. Clear side by side views that make the decision obvious. No resume dumps, ever.
6. Offer, close, and 90 day ramp
Guide compensation, equity ranges, and approval paths. Orchestrate resignation strategy and start. Stand up a 30 60 90 plan with early metric targets so the hire lands fast and sticks.
Our Trusted Advisors
Kurt Vosburgh
Vice President of Sales, Global Technology
Kurt uses strategic insight, optimized solutions, and a collaborative approach to provide talent solution programs to clients, from implementation to support—managing external partnerships and internal delivery teams.
Sayan Bhattacharya
Managing Director
Bringing over a decade of experience in technology and management, Sayan is known for his dynamic approach. He has a notable history of transforming IT projects, combining extensive management expertise with a passion for technology.
Matt Gorman
Chief Revenue Officer
Based in Connecticut, Matt brings 15+ years of leadership experience in the staffing and recruiting industry. He has extensive experience aligning business behind revenue, bridging C-Suite, optimizing strategy, and leveraging labor as a means to production.
Kate McHugh
Director of Business Development
Kate McHugh is the Director of Business Development, North America at MSH, where she drives growth initiatives across the region. With a strong background in sales and technology solutions, she’s been pivotal in expanding MSH’s reach and impact.
Restaurant Brands International Workforce Solution Showcase
Restaurant Brands International partnered with MSH on an end to end Strategic Workforce Solution and RPO across professional and campus hiring. The engagement began in 2012 and continues today.
Result
"Working with MSH has helped us hire in some particularly tricky situations where other partners had failed – they are particularly adept at problem solving and getting the job done creatively and quickly. The team is incredibly responsive – everyone I’ve worked with is highly ambitious, with a strong roll-up-sleeves attitude and a really strong sense of being here 24/7 for you as a customer. I’d recommend MSH because they are really unique problem solvers in the talent space! They are results-oriented, resourceful, scrappy, hungry to achieve, and also really good innovative thinkers for where you need some longer term or more innovative talent solutions (besides just hiring)."
Kim Logan
Former Head of Talent Management
Average 35 Day TTF Across all brands
100 Plus Hires Per YearSustained annual volume
150 Plus Campus HiresLDP and interns across three continents
Our Solutions Help You Hire QSR Corporate Roles With Confidence
Executive search for corporate HQ
C suite and VP leaders with multi unit scale and franchise savvy. COO CDO CMO CFO CIO CHRO and Chief Supply Chain who move comps, throughput, and loyalty without breaking unit economics.
Direct hire leadership placements
Function heads who run the plan. VP Operations, Supply Chain, Finance, Digital, Data and Analytics, Franchise Development, Real Estate, People and Culture. Fewer interviews and faster yes.
Interim executives for critical gaps
Seated operators and builders who stabilize drive thru, protect guest metrics, and keep openings on time while the permanent search runs.
Team buildouts for rapid scaling
Stand up corporate pods that deliver outcomes. Development and real estate engines, digital and loyalty, analytics and demand planning, supply chain resilience.
Recruitment process outsourcing (RPO)
A dedicated engine for ongoing executive and director hiring. Clean intake, measurable time to slate, and board ready visibility across multiple searches.
Talent intelligence and market maps
Live views of competitor benches, PE platforms, and franchise systems. Compensation ranges, succession signals, diversity insights, and readiness to move.
Frequently Asked Questions
Schedule a consultation with our QSR recruitment experts and see how MSH can help you hire top-tier professionals quickly, efficiently, and with confidence.