Expansion Manager (m/f/d)

Imagine you're going through a city and see the perfect corner for a new bakery shop with cafe. You feel it immediately: the running frequency, the neighborhood, the potential. While others just go on, you stay standing. Because you know that right here people will drink their first coffee in the morning, that right here the scent of fresh bread can change a whole street. At the same time, you bring life into our existing locations, transform it with a team of partners, making them shine in new splendour and raise potential. If you know that, we should talk.

Who we are

The Lohners – this is a family company from the heart of the Eifel with around 200 specialist shops in Rhineland-Palatinate, Hesse, NRW and more than 2,000 employees. Built by Achim and Ellen Lohner: For many decades with passion, attitude and a quality promise that you taste in every bread. You have transferred the bakery to a foundation and are still available for advice. Since 2025, our company has been headed by a new management, chaired by Bernd Kütscher, one of the most profiled heads of the German bakery trade and your direct contact person in all questions of expansion. Together we are facing an exciting new chapter. And we're not just looking for someone who finds real estate or redesigns specialist shops. We are looking for a personality that grows together with us.

As an expansion manager (m/w/d) with the Lohners, you are not a specialist, not a worker. You are the central force behind our growth. In close coordination with the management, you meet decisions with scope and see how your ideas become real places where people come together. You will find our future: location for location. You explore regions, analyze locations, recognize opportunities others overlook. You're not just going on routes. You read cities and neighborhoods like open books. Whether it's a city centre, a shopping center, a commercial area, a loading park or a new building district that just arises: you know where a specialist business belongs to the wagers before it has an address. And give existing sites a new shine. You negotiate at eye level. Market operators, LEH managers, landlords, owners, project developers, brokers, municipalities: You are confident in every round of talks. You're not just negotiating contracts. You create partnerships. You understand economic parameters as well as building-law framework conditions and align both. You control the whole process. From the first idea about the evaluation and cost-effectiveness calculation to the contract signature and coordination of our partners during the construction: You hold all threads in your hand. You build a network that carries. Your address book becomes one of our most valuable goods. You'll be struggling with players in the LEH, real estate agents, city planners and business promoters and becoming the first point of contact in the region when someone has an interesting area.

A completed training as a real estate businessman/wife, a further education on the real estate specialist or a study with real estate cover – or a comparable qualification that brought you here Several years of professional experience in expansion, real estate management or location development. Particularly valuable: experience from the bakery environment, from food retail, from commercial chains or from the marketing of commercial real estate. You know the logic of frequency positions, understand rental contract constructions and know what it is about trading locations Negotiation security not from textbooks, but from experience. You can convince a landlord as well as a management An existing network in real estate management, ideally in the business area of Lohners. Or the proven ability to quickly build such a network Entrepreneurial thinking, self-initiative and the ability to drive things forward without having to take every step. You work structured, decide courageously and communicate clearly readiness to travel within our business area and a driving licence: Many of the best locations are not found at the desk

Real design power. You don't build a department after submission. You will also shape the expansion of one of the largest and most famous bakery companies in Germany – in a phase where everything is possible. Your title “Expansion Manager” is not an exaggeration: You're running this area. Direct wire for management. The Chairman of the Management Board is your direct Sparring partner who understands, evaluates and supports your work. Short decision paths, no endless voting loops. A family business that is serious. The wagers are not listed on the market, not foreign-controlled, not interchangeable. This includes handshake and quality. The founding family is behind the company and behind the people who keep it. Attractive framework conditions. Company car, of course also for private use. A reward that meets your experience and responsibility. To this end, Jobrad, attractive employee discounts at many dozens of partner companies from all areas and, of course, with us: for who finds locations for us should also know how well our bread tastes. .