Yum! Center for Global Franchise Excellence

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Conduct planning process for HQ G&A (50%)
• Own and understand the G&A budget and prepare monthly & quarterly variance analyses for Senior Management.
• Lead development of full-year, quarterly and intra-quarter forecasts by using, updating and maintaining financial forecast models.
• Work closely with Functions to understand their budget and ensure accurate expense reporting, as well as identifying any risks & opportunities.
• Collaborate with Control and Intra-Company teams to ensure accurate expense recording or reclassification.
• Load quarterly budgets into HFM or Oracle, actively participating in the transition to new financial reporting system.
• Support the rollout of DOMO dashboards for Functions and update budgets as needed.
• Build strong relationships and communicate effectively with all Functions.
• Coordinate financial capital planning for KFC’s Equity portfolio (30%)
• Track capital expense requests from business units and ensure they are timely approved, following up on any pending signatures.
• Analyze capital expense requests, reviewing models submitted by business units to understand the key metrics driving return on investment and summarize them in tracking file.
• Work together with business units’ teams to resolve any pending questions from Senior Management ahead of approval.
• Participate in process to measure new unit’s performance vs. forecast, identifying success factors and opportunities.
• Support Global Planning and Analysis (20%)
• Assist the global planning team in consolidating BMU-level plans on a quarterly basis, including P&Ls, SSSG, WPSA, and CAPEX.
• Participate in reporting process by analyzing financial performance of all BMUs.
• Collaborate on quarterly load of forecasts into HFM or Oracle.
• Contribute to the preparation of quarterly and annual plans, providing key financial metrics to Investor Relations.

Senior Finance Analyst

Technical Project Manager

• Oversee scrum ceremonies and enforce agile best practices across technical teams.
• Coordinate with product owners and stakeholders to align on milestones and dependencies.
• Identify and resolve delivery risks, impediments, and resource constraints.
• Provide transparent reporting on progress, risks, and mitigation plans to leadership.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Staff Technical Project Manager – Financial Systems

Operations

• Lead and develop a leading high performing team of Regional Directors, Above Restaurant Leaders, and Restaurant General Managers while transforming the industry standards for restaurant level operations
• Create and drive the operational strategy across the equity portfolio to maximize efficiency, profitability, and guest satisfaction by ensuring the seamless implementation of new technologies, streamlined processes, and innovative restaurant solutions.
• Build strong, productive relationships with cross-functional partners and equity operators to align organizational priorities, vision, and execution.
• Oversee P&L management for the equity portfolio, ensuring optimal cost management and resource allocation while directing strategies to enhance restaurant performance against operational KPIs, including labor optimization, cost management, and guest satisfaction.
• Lead and manage large-scale organizational changes, ensuring smooth transitions in processes, technology, and operations by effectively communicating and engaging with teams to embrace change, minimizing disruption and maximizing adoption.
• Ensure the Taco Bell values of innovation, inclusivity, and guest-centricity are reflected in every facet of restaurant operations and leadership development by driving a culture that prioritizes guest service, team collaboration, and high performance.

Senior Director, Equity Field Operations

Project Manager

• Lead the development and execution of operational initiatives from early concept through field testing and post-test review.
• Manage, update, and maintain the Habit Hub intranet, ensuring content is accurate, up to date, easy to navigate, and aligned with Operations Services communication needs.
• Assist in designing project rollout plans, timelines, and communication frameworks to guide operators through new processes and tests.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to coordinate field test activities, including scheduling, materials preparation, test protocol setup, and follow-up actions.
• Gather and organize field feedback during tests; summarize insights, operational gaps, and opportunities for improvement.
• Pull and analyze Tracks reporting and operational metrics (labor, food cost, throughput) to evaluate test performance and business impact.
• Develop operational reference tools such as job aids, trackers, quick guides, and checklists.
• Support project documentation and tracking using Microsoft Office, Monday.com, and Smartsheet.
• Partner cross-functionally with FIT, Supply Chain, FSQA, Training, Digital, and HR teams to ensure alignment across testing and rollout phases.
• Participate in calibration calls, test recap calls, and operations update meetings; take detailed notes and maintain action item logs.
• Assist in creating PowerPoint decks and visual summaries highlighting test results, learnings, and recommendations.
• Conduct periodic restaurant visits to observe tests, validate operational feasibility, and identify real-time challenges.
• Troubleshoot test-related issues and escalate findings as needed.
• Visit restaurant locations to observe field tests or assist with rollout activities.
• Maintain organized project documentation, including protocols, timelines, insights databases, and final reports.
• Provide support to the Operations Services inbox, routing inquiries and helping resolve project-related field questions.
• Perform additional duties and support operational projects as required.

Project Analyst, Operations Services

Product Marketing

• Support coach in gathering and analysis of competitive food and beverage landscape, and new and emerging food trends to support the identification of new menu innovation, product launches and menu optimizations.
• Support coach in developing and executing store design, operational frameworks, and Live Mas Café expansion plans.
• Support Live Mas Cafe calendar execution & performance by collaborating with cross-functional teams from a variety of departments including Advertising, Food Innovation, Consumer Insights, Operations, Finance, Sales Analysis, Supply Chain, Architecture & Development, Local Store Marketing and Agency partners.
• Generate timelines and work back schedules for limited time offers and menu updates programs partnering with Marketing Operations.
• Coordinate cross-functional collaboration and requests to prepare for key business stage gates, including test/launch alignments, product design ideations, draft forecasts, operational considerations, supply strategy and authorization dates.
• Partner with Coach to develop strategic documents for program recommendations, launch & promotional plans, and alignments within established processes.
• Lead cross-functional meetings – providing key updates and seeking out critical cross-functional input to move projects forward.
• Collaborate with Consumer Insights and Product Development partners to generate new product ideas, write concepts & consumer insight research, and execute product test/launch plans, providing input demonstrating understanding of key insights.

Associate Manager, Product Marketing

Product Designer

• Support and lead experience strategy and UX direction across the POS platform, spanning multiple feature areas
• Serve as a UX lead for POS, ensuring consistency, scalability, and quality across workflows
• Frame and resolve complex, ambiguous UX problems that cut across features, teams, or markets
• Define and evolve interaction models, workflows, and design patterns that support long-term scalability
• Drive alignment and convergence where UX solutions are fragmented or inconsistent across teams
• Select and define appropriate design methods, frameworks, and approaches for complex initiatives
• Partner closely with Product and Engineering leadership to influence prioritization, scope, and tradeoffs
• Facilitate design reviews, critiques, and working sessions to align teams around shared solutions
• Influence design practices and standards beyond immediate project teams
• Mentor and guide other designers through design leadership and feedback (IC-only role)
• Clearly articulate design strategy, risks, and tradeoffs to senior stakeholders

Senior Product Designer – POS Designer

• Support and lead UX for the Inventory product area, aligning design direction with product goals, operational realities, and user needs.
• Frame complex inventory challenges into clear, actionable design opportunities across workflows such as counting, ordering, waste, transfers, prep, and reporting.
• Translate business and operational goals into coherent experience direction without over-indexing on feature-level design.
• Design end-to-end, production-ready experiences across mobile and web for operational users (e.g., restaurant managers, shift leads, team members).
• Create clear user flows, interaction patterns, and detailed UI designs that balance usability, speed, accuracy, and real-world constraints.
• Ensure designs support scalability, accessibility, and consistency while remaining pragmatic for engineering delivery.
• Act as the primary design partner for Inventory Product and Engineering leads.
• Facilitate design critiques, working sessions, and reviews to align across disciplines.
• Communicate tradeoffs clearly, balancing usability, technical feasibility, and delivery constraints.
• Advocate for user-centered solutions while navigating tradeoffs between operational needs, technical constraints, and business priorities.
• Design for operational environments where speed, legibility, and error recovery are critical.
• Incorporate accessibility and usability best practices appropriate for shared, on-premise systems.
• Anticipate failure modes and "unhappy paths," ensuring the system remains usable under stress or degraded conditions.

Senior Product Designer II – Inventory Designer

Android Engineer

• Serve as a technical owner for major components or end-to-end features within the TKDS Android platform
• Be a hands-on developer driving software development in a fast paced and dynamic environment
• Lead architecture and design discussions, making trade-off decisions that balance performance, reliability, security, and speed to market
• Partner closely with Product, UX, QA, Platform, and Cloud teams to align technical execution with business outcomes
• Set and enforce engineering standards across code quality, testing strategy, observability, documentation, and operational readiness
• Act as a mentor and technical multiplier, coaching engineers across the team through design reviews, deep-dive sessions, and hands-on guidance
• Lead the evolution of CI/CD pipelines, automated testing strategies, and development tooling, including AI-assisted engineering workflows
• Influence technical roadmaps and contribute to long-term platform strategy, ensuring solutions scale with business growth and future capabilities

Senior Software Engineer II – Android

• Support and lead UX design for Portal Core, including navigation, discovery, onboarding, and shared workflow patterns that span Byte portal products.
• Define and drive end‑to‑end UX across multiple concurrent workstreams, from early problem framing through delivery and iteration.
• Partner with Product to shape requirements, challenge assumptions, and identify gaps or risks early.
• Translate business and operational goals into coherent experience direction without over-indexing on feature-level design.
• Design scalable, high-fidelity design for data-rich, content authoring, and workflow-driven systems used by multiple personas.
• Own end-to-end design across multiple Portal views and states, translating platform strategy and outcome‑driven goals into clear, scalable experience frameworks and interaction models.
• Create interaction models, patterns, and frameworks that support consistency across the Portal experience.
• Deliver production-ready designs, specs, and prototypes that engineers can implement with confidence.
• Act as the primary design partner for Portal Core Product and Engineering leads.
• Facilitate design critiques, working sessions, and reviews to align across disciplines.
• Communicate tradeoffs clearly, balancing usability, technical feasibility, and delivery constraints.
• Ensure design intent and quality are preserved through implementation.
• Design for operational environments where speed, legibility, and error recovery are critical.
• Incorporate accessibility and usability best practices appropriate for shared, on-premise systems.
• Anticipate failure modes and “unhappy paths,” ensuring the system remains usable under stress or degraded conditions.
• Identify experience gaps, fragmentation, or inconsistencies across the Portal and proactively drive convergence through reusable patterns and guidance.

Senior Product Designer – Portal Designer

• Own the experience architecture for your Digital Ordering domain, defining interaction models, workflows, navigation structures, and cross‑platform patterns.
• Translate complex commerce logic (menu structure, customization rules, offers, rewards, pricing) into intuitive, scalable experience frameworks.
• Create system‑level diagrams, ecosystem maps, and workflow schemas to align designers, product managers, and engineers.
• Ensure architectural decisions support reuse, consistency, and long‑term scalability across brands and platforms.
• Partner closely with the Design Systems team to ensure designs leverage shared components and patterns, and to develop UX patterns that support both the design system and Digital Ordering experiences.
• Lead end‑to‑end design for complex, multi‑step flows, from concept through execution‑ready designs.
• Create detailed user flows, prototypes, and annotated specifications for engineering partners.
• Define edge cases, error handling, fallback states, and recovery paths to ensure reliability in high‑traffic, real‑time environments.
• Design across web, mobile app, and loyalty surfaces with attention to platform‑specific behaviors and constraints.
• Partner closely with the Design Systems team to apply, evolve, and validate components and patterns in real production workflows.
• Identify new pattern opportunities, component needs, and system gaps based on Digital Ordering use cases.
• Advocate for scalable, system‑aligned solutions while balancing the need for brand differentiation across experiences.
• Ensure consistent, high‑quality application of design system standards across teams and platforms.
• Act as a primary design partner to Commerce Product, Engineering leads and Design Systems Team, influencing roadmap decisions through clear articulation of user needs and system constraints.
• Facilitate design critiques, alignment sessions, and decision points to drive clarity and quality.
• Communicate design rationale and tradeoffs effectively to technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Support and mentor junior designers (L4–L7) through workflow modeling, systems thinking, and interaction design craft.
• Establish and reinforce UX principles and best practices for large‑scale, consumer commerce experiences.
• Improve design documentation quality, accessibility, and cross‑team understanding.
• Model strategic thinking and design leadership consistent with Yum!’s leadership values.

Senior Product Designer II, Digital Ordering Systems – Platform

Product Manager

• Define and maintain product vision, strategy, and roadmap for consolidation and reconciliation capabilities.
• Collaborate with finance and Controls team to gather requirements and prioritize backlog.
• Drive adoption of agile practices within the fusion team and ensure alignment with enterprise standards.
• Oversee feature delivery aligned with financial close milestones and compliance requirements.
• Monitor product performance, identify improvement opportunities, and implement enhancements.

Senior Product Manager II – Consolidation, Close & Reconciliation

• Provide strategic financial support for e-commerce and digital channels including Aggregator, Owned Channel & Kiosk, focusing on digital promotions & KFC Loyalty.
• Complete test market analysis to support the business case for new digital promotions. Make assessments of incrementality, promo profitability, impact to channel economics and impact to the customer base.
• Conduct post-promo analysis to document promo KPI’s for share back to the franchise system.
• Support project teams in developing product & promotion pipeline, helping to translate financial data into actionable insights.
• Complete test market analysis to support business case for new product/promotion/strategic pipeline, and influence cross-functional teams to ensure KFC is pursuing easy to execute, sales- and profit-driving initiatives.
• Partner with Restaurant Supply Chain Team to ensure there is adequate supply to cover promotional activity
• Perform various ad hoc initiatives to support the business as they arise.

Senior Associate Manager, Finance – Strategic Planning, Calendar & Innovation

QA Engineer

• Refine existing practices and implement new quality assurance practices across the organization to ensure the highest quality deliverables reach our consumers.
• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of onshore and nearshore quality engineers.
• Define and track key KPIs and quality metrics to evaluate system health, test coverage, and automation ROI.
• Drive root cause analysis of production issues using observability tools such as DataDog, ensuring continuous system stability.
• Guide the implementation and evolution of test automation frameworks for API, Web, and Mobile platforms.
• Collaborate with development and DevOps teams to optimize performance and quality in a cloud-native infrastructure.
• Maintain a strong partnership with product and engineering leadership to align quality efforts with business goals.
• Stay current on emerging technologies and industry best practices in quality engineering, DevOps, and cloud architecture.

Director, Quality Engineering

• Manage day-to-day Live Más Café workstream, overseeing multiple facets spanning across beverage menu innovation, store design, and operational frameworks to ensure scalable success.
• Lead a cross-functional team on Live Mas Café to plan & deliver the innovation pipeline, product launches, and limited time offers.
• Lead the strategy and execution of 2026 U.S. market expansion, defining objectives, shaping test design, aligning cross-functional teams to deliver operational excellence, capture key learnings, and build the blueprint for future national scale.
• Drive cross-functional leadership alignment discussions to progress key workstreams and projects, including but not limited to product exploration, creative development, merchandising briefs and launch plans.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners including Consumer Insights, Food Innovation, Brand, Finance, Tech, and Operations on product commercialization, forecasting and performance reporting, local store marketing, and overall go-to-market execution of new store launches.
• Translate business insights and consumer learnings into strategic tactics and levers that continue sustain store Live Más Café performance and drive incremental growth.
• Engage and coordinate with key franchisee partner, maintaining regular touchpoints and alignment to support store-level launches and drive consistent operational success.
• Coach and develop a product marketing team to enable and deliver key goals & responsibilities. **

Product Marketing Manager

Brand Manager

• Lead and support Live Más Café beverage marketing campaigns, from developing creative briefs and guiding creative development to in‑market execution in partnership with cross‑functional and agency teams.
• Partner with cross‑functional teams (Advertising, Food Innovation, Consumer Insights, Operations, Finance, Sales Analysis, Supply Chain, Architecture & Development, Local Store Marketing) to develop integrated, multi‑channel activations that support the Live Mas Café calendar and effectively engage target consumers.
• Interpret and use consumer insights to inform decision-making, leveraging research, testing, and performance data to inform briefs, platform strategy, and messaging.
• Help build Live Más Café as a destination by supporting menu storytelling, merchandising, digital experiences, and launch communications.
• Help craft compelling presentations for partners at all levels, effectively communicating business challenges, opportunities, and recommendations.
• Manage cross functional inputs, timelines, and routing, ensuring creative consistency, compliance, and on time delivery.
• Lead cross-functional meetings – providing key updates and seeking out critical cross-functional input to move projects forward
• Partner with Coach to develop strategic documents for program recommendations, launch & promotional plans, and alignments within established processes
• Monitor category trends, competitive activity, and cultural beverage shifts to inform strategic recommendations and long-range roadmap planning