Yum! Center for Global Franchise Excellence

Chief Marketing Officer

• - Own and lead the end-to-end regional marketing strategy for Pizza Hut Europe, with clear accountability for **transactions, sales, and value perception**.
• - Execute a **QSR-like value strategy** that strengthens Top Entry Value, Delivery Value, and Online Value Offers across all European markets.
• - Develop and deploy a **value layer analysis framework** (COGS, mix, media allocation) to optimize value architecture and profitability.
• - Track and benchmark value performance across top European markets, ensuring consistency and best-practice sharing.
• - Develop a principal marketing calendar and ensure all market calendars are aligned with these principal.
• - Drive pricing architecture, and campaign effectiveness across Europe.
• - Act as a **digital thought leader**, assessing and optimizing digital advertising effectiveness across awareness, engagement, and conversion.
• - Step-change digital performance and brand relevance across markets through innovation, testing, and disruptive thinking
• - Define and steward the regional brand strategy, ensuring Pizza Hut is positioned as an **Everyday Brand** while accelerating relevance with **younger audiences**.
• - Ensure all markets consistently deliver the Pizza Hut brand story through distinctive, locally relevant communications.
• - Lead the development and rollout of omni-channel campaigns that grow brand love, drive transactions, and retain customers.
• - Manage regional campaigns end-to-end, from concept development through execution, budget management, performance evaluation, and optimization.
• - Analyse consumer data and trends and ensure decision making is based on this analysis.
• - Partner closely with franchisees to co-create **annual local marketing plans**, including value offers, promotions, innovation, and communications that drive sales and traffic.
• - Act as a trusted strategic partner to franchise leadership, balancing brand consistency with local market agility.
• - Enable markets with clear frameworks, tools, and guidance while holding them accountable for execution and results.
• - Own regional product development initiatives, including core product improvements, food innovation, and regulatory-driven changes.
• - Partner cross-functionally to ensure innovation pipelines support both brand strategy and transaction growth.
• - Bring Pizza Hut’s social purpose, **“An Equal Slice for Everyone,”** to life across Europe.
• - Lead the rollout of the **Unlocking Opportunity Program **across Europe.
• - Manage end-to-end execution in collaboration with Yum! and external social partners, ensuring authenticity, scale, and measurable outcomes.
• - Invest in long-term capability building across markets and agency partners, particularly in strategy, brand positioning, digital performance, and creativity.
• - Expand know-how sharing and best-practice deployment across the region.
• - Act as a people grower, developing high-performing teams and future marketing leaders within your team.
• - Collaborate closely across the organization on initiatives such as Brand Tracking, Google partnerships, attribution, and marketing technology.

Marketing Director

Data Engineer

• Design and develop highly scalable and extensible data pipelines from internal and external sources using cloud technology such as AWS, Airflow, Redshift, EMR.
• Implement new source of truth datasets, in partnership with analytics and business teams.
• Collaborate with data product managers, data scientists, data analysts, and data engineers to document requirements and data specifications.
• Develop, deploy, and maintain serverless data pipelines using Event Bridge, Kinesis, AWS Lambda, S3, and Glue.
• Focus on performance tuning, optimization and scalability to ensure efficiency.
• Build out a robust big data ingestion framework with automation, self-heal capabilities and ability to handle data drifts.
• Adopt automated and manual test strategies to ensure product quality
• Learn and understand how Taco Bell products work and help build end-to-end solutions.
• Ensure high operational efficiency and quality of your solutions to meet SLAs.
• Actively participate in code reviews and summarize complex data into usable, digestible datasets.

Data Engineer III

Recruitment

• Lead financial evaluation and deal assessment for franchise recruitment, M&A targets, and strategic partnerships.
• Represent Pizza Hut in preliminary conversations with prospective franchisees and acquisition candidates.
• Evaluate prospective franchisees' fit within available opportunities.
• Assist in identifying and evaluating unique growth opportunities for Pizza Hut's inorganic growth funnel.
• Assess organizational and restaurant-level P&L data to provide recommendations on valuation and deal structure.
• Review franchise candidate financial submissions to determine eligibility for desired markets or acquisition opportunities.
• Serve as the first point of contact for new franchisee, M&A, and strategic partnership opportunities, hosting introductory calls.
• Create and maintain opportunity pipelines for franchise recruitment, M&A, and strategic partnerships.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to assist in candidate and opportunity assessment throughout the evaluation and implementation process.
• Build and maintain relationships with prospective and current franchisees, ensuring long-term success for Pizza Hut.

Development Strategy and Recruitment Analyst

People Operations

• Serve as a trusted People & Culture advisor to senior leaders across GETS, Cyber, and Global Restaurant Technology Operations.
• Coach functional leadership teams on people and talent decisions, aligning organizational capabilities with business priorities and proactively identifying and addressing risks and opportunities related to talent, capability, and organizational health.
• Influence outcomes through strong relationships, sound judgment, and effective collaboration across a diverse set of stakeholders.
• Navigate enterprise complexity, ambiguity, and competing priorities with high emotional intelligence, professionalism, and a growth mindset that embraces learning and continuous improvement.
• Partner closely with the People & Culture Director to ensure people and business strategies are executed cohesively across GETS, Cyber, and Global Restaurant Technology Operations, including collaboration with the PCBP supporting the GRTO senior manager team and Service Desk population.
• Define and evolve skill and capability roadmaps, lead talent review processes, and partner with leaders to design scalable support models that ensure future-ready talent, equitable development, and strong leadership pipelines aligned to business and global needs.
• Lead execution of workforce planning, talent movement, succession planning, and global resourcing strategies.

People & Culture Business Partner

General Counsel

• Provide broad legal support to one or more client teams in Yum! D&T’s Commercial Products vertical (e.g., Product, Engineering & Architecture, and Reliability & Engineering teams), Enterprise Technology vertical (e.g., AI and Data, IT Shared Services, Global Technology Risk Management, and Restaurant Technology Operations), and Support functions (e.g., Finance, Strategy and HR) on a diverse range of matters and issues associated with the development and deployment of Yum!-owned technology and services into restaurants around the globe.
• Independently draft, negotiate and facilitate execution of strategically important SaaS, PaaS, cloud services, IT infrastructure, technology, license, and other commercial agreements tied to Yum! D&T’s products, services, and strategy.
• Partner with the Yum! Trademarks team to review, and obtain clearance for, trademarks associated with Yum! D&T’s portfolio of products and services; advise Yum! D&T Product and Strategy teams on guardrails around usage, in line with broader business objectives and organizational risk tolerance.
• Partner with Yum! Procurement to conduct request for proposals (RFPs) for products and services connected to the Yum! D&T suite of products and services.
• Lead and/or participate on project teams and working groups associated with Yum!’s ambition to be the world’s preeminent “digital franchisor”; participate in, and provide legal support for, other ad hoc projects, as assigned.
• Develop and maintain expertise in areas of the law impacting Yum! D&T’s products, services and strategy, including those around data privacy, AI, intellectual property, technology and commercial contracts.

Senior Corporate Counsel

Project Manager

• Inspire, create, and develop trend-setting beverage ingredients, from prototype to commercialized. Ensure they meet our consumer, operations, and financial needs
• Participate in Product Development team working sessions, sharing, collaborating and building on ideas and prototypes
• Collaborate with brand marketing, and consumer insights peers understanding beverage cost of sales targets and guardrails
• Partner with PD, Commercialization, QA & Restaurant Food Safety to maintain quality and safety standards, and are thoroughly tested to confirm
• Follow and create project timelines and problem solve when required to ensure programs hit deadlines
• Proactively identify the needs, design, execution of product showings and development sessions. Assist/participate in product evaluations, competitive analysis, and special events
• Manage multiple suppliers and vendors, providing clear direction, feedback, and next steps
• Deliver presentations with a high degree of competence in a clear concise manner both written and verbally in front of leadership and large audiences

Project Manager, Product Development – R&D

Art Director

• The Strategic Art Director is responsible for the development of visual concepts, campaigns, and brand systems across print, digital and experiential platforms that tell the story behind our company strategy.
• Work directly with Communication Leads for concept development and execution of creative campaigns that align with the company's communication and storytelling objectives.
• Partner with key business stakeholders to translate insights and objectives into innovative design solutions that achieve measurable impact.
• Uphold high standards for storytelling and design quality across all creative outputs and develop visually stunning leadership presentations.
• Confidently present and articulate creative concepts to clients, executives, and cross-functional partners, connecting the creative vision to business strategy.
• Oversee creative projects from ideation through execution, managing timelines, deliverables, and collaboration with Yum! Corporate Communications, as well as functional clients within Yum!

Strategic Art Director

DevOps Engineer

• Design, test, implement, deploy, and support continuous integration pipelines that build and deploy to cloud-based environments (development, stage/testing, production)**• Help build the foundation for future technology platforms by setting standards around cloud-native patterns**• Act as a key consultant and representative for the organization and contribute to functional strategy and help set team direction by establishing priorities and work plans to meet objectives.**

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Product Designer

• Support and lead UX design for the Kitchen Display System, aligning user needs, operational constraints, and product goals.
• Frame complex, multi-role workflows (line cooks, expo, kitchen managers) into clear, usable experiences.
• 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 real-time, workflow-driven systems used in live kitchen environments.
• Own end-to-end design across multiple KDS views and states, including station workflows, error states, and edge cases.
• Create interaction models, patterns, and frameworks that support consistency across the KDS experience.
• Deliver production-ready designs, specs, and prototypes that engineers can implement with confidence.
• Act as the primary design partner for KDS 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.

Senior Product Designer

Artificial Intelligence

• Grow enterprise AI Adoption and champion communities that amplify usage across brands, functions, and markets
• Maintain and evolve the AI Academy, ensuring development paths remain current with the rapid pace of AI advancements
• Identify, evaluate, and introduce emerging AI tools and features that materially improve employee productivity
• Support the design and delivery of learning content, playbooks, and enablement sessions that strengthen enterprise AI fluency
• Partner with functional teams to map end-to-end workflows, uncover pain points, and identify opportunities for agent-driven automation
• Translate business needs into structured requirements for Crave AI agent builds, ensuring clarity across engineering, product, and operations teams
• Manage the full lifecycle of automation projects - from scoping and requirements to pilots, rollout, and iteration
• Create artifacts, demos, and storytelling materials that articulate value and progress
• Establish repeatable processes, templates, and best practices to scale workflow discovery and automation across the enterprise
• Build strong relationships across technology, operations, learning, brand teams, and global markets
• Drive alignment and decision-making through strong communication, structured thinking, and problem-solving
• Serve as a trusted partner to teams adopting new AI tools, offering guidance, troubleshooting, and clarity during change
• Help cultivate a culture of experimentation, continuous learning, and AI-first ways of working

Measurement Lead – AI Acceleration, Adoption

Business Analyst

Senior Business Analyst – AI Acceleration, Adoption

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Own the company financial planning process, including annual budgeting, quarterly forecasting, and period close reporting
• Lead financial modeling, scenario planning, and ad-hoc analyses to support strategic decisions
• Oversee deliverables for YUM Planning (e.g. YumCast, Intra-Quarter Forecast, etc.) and partner with Control to confirm accuracy and timeliness of financial results
• Provide support for executive-level financial materials, presentations, board decks, performance insights
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Finance, Development, Strategy, Ops, and others to support initiatives with financial guidance
• Manage capital spending, including bi-annual updates and ensuring new stores are hitting hurdle targets
• Maintain the Long-Range model to ensure that results and decisions are keeping the Brand on track to deliver on its 2030 goals
• Champion continuous improvement, including implementation of planning tools & systems to enhance efficiency

Senior Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis

Product Manager

• Support product discovery within the purchase flow, leveraging data and customer understanding to identify problems to solve and defining new capabilities to add to the product backlog.
• Manage and refine the prioritized backlog and drive cross-functional prioritizations based on strategic business impact and value, balancing immediate customer needs or pain points with long-term opportunities and cross-functional objectives and constraints.
• Deliver measured improvements to revenue and customer satisfaction through strategic objectives, vision creation, and assisting in day-to-day product delivery
• Work closely with solution architects and development teams to understand the technology enablers or constraints for new product ideas; finalize product requirements to include business, customer, and technical goals and constraints.
• Organize and lead team through discovery, ideation and creative problem solving, rapid prototyping, end-to-end solutioning, communication planning, execution, and reporting.
• Engage and manage stakeholders; build cross-functional partnerships to ensure that projects align with evolving technology, journeys, and organizational standards for architecture, security, and portfolio standards/methodologies
• Deliver measured improvements to revenue and customer satisfaction through strategic objectives, vision creation, and assisting in day-to-day product delivery

Senior Product Manager

• Define information architecture, conceptual models, taxonomy, and domain logic for configuration-heavy or multi-role systems.
• Establish system clarity by mapping objects, relationships, behaviors, constraints, and states.
• Create scalable, coherent structures that other designers and engineers can confidently build upon.
• Lead the scoping of design work, breaking large ambiguous problem spaces into actionable, sequenced design efforts.
• Prioritize design focus areas to maximize velocity and unblock engineering.
• Communicate design progress, risks, and decisions to PM and engineering partners, reducing ambiguity across teams.
• Push back when proposed technical approaches degrade experience quality or violate established models.
• Facilitate design–engineering tradeoff discussions grounded in system logic and user impact.
• Ensure engineering understands interaction rules, behaviors, states, edge cases, and object relationships before implementation.
• Provide structure, guidance, and critique to the Workflow/Interaction Designer working within your system models.
• Help convert system logic into flows, prototypes, and task-level interactions.
• Ensure alignment between IA decisions and downstream interaction patterns.
• Produce high-quality IA maps, conceptual diagrams, domain models, and architectural documentation.
• Create task flows, wireframes, and mid-fidelity prototypes when needed to illustrate behaviors, transitions, and interactions.
• Use usability principles to simplify complex conceptual spaces and improve the operator experience.
• Facilitate collaborative working sessions with engineering, PM, data, and operations partners.
• Establish shared mental models and structural clarity across functions.
• Drive decisions in ambiguous areas through clear reasoning, diagrams, and conceptual framing.
• Mentor other designers in IA, systems thinking, workflow modeling, and structured problem-solving.
• Contribute to the evolution of design practices, tools, and rituals across the design org.
• Support the development of reusable patterns and frameworks that contribute to a cohesive design system.

Senior Product Designer – Systems, Information Architecture

Technical Project Manager

• Manage and lead multiple projects, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities and strategic objectives.
• Utilize waterfall and agile methodologies to transform ambiguous deliverables into detailed, actionable project plans.
• Interface remotely with cross-functional teams and stakeholders, maintaining open lines of communication.
• Maintain up-to-date project plans, providing objective insights into project and task health for effective decision-making.
• Present projects and report project status to relevant teams, stakeholders, and leadership, ensuring transparency and alignment.
• Facilitate project communication, ensuring clear and timely updates across all project stakeholders.
• Contribute to the growth and maturity of the D&T PDO Program, offering ideas and feedback for continuous improvement.
• Leverage AI technologies to enhance project delivery, increase productivity, and streamline processes.
• Ensure compliance with established practices and procedures, solving routine problems and escalating complex issues.
• Maintain a high level of accuracy and quality assurance, welcoming work reviews and feedback.