Yum! Center for Global Franchise Excellence

Data Scientist

• Lead and mentor a team of Data Scientists and AI Engineers across multiple domains and products.
• Provide technical and career development guidance; foster a collaborative, high-trust culture.
• Drive standards for experimentation, evaluation, reproducibility, and model performance.
• Shape end-to-end ML and AI strategy across core DS use cases (forecasting, pricing, recommendation) and emerging LLM/VLM applications.
• Guide architectural choices around model selection, evaluation design, and deployment workflows.
• Provide oversight on LLM fine-tuning, prompt design, ASR/embedding adaptation, and production readiness.
• Act as a key interface between technical contributors and business/product stakeholders.
• Distill analytical output and AI system behavior into clear presentations, dashboards, or executive summaries.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, TPM, and Ops to align team output with company priorities.

Senior Manager, Data Science & AI Engineering

Analyst

• Join Yum! Brands as a Senior Analyst, KFC U.S. Control, supporting the financial reporting and franchise accounting operations of KFC U.S.
• This hybrid role, based in Louisville, KY, plays a critical part in ensuring accurate revenue recognition, franchise incentive accounting, royalty reporting, and compliance with US GAAP.
• Partner cross-functionally with Brand Finance, Accounts Receivable, Franchise Health teams, and more to support period close, quarterly reporting, and franchise financial oversight.
• Analyze complex financial data into meaningful business insights.

Senior Analyst, Control

Director

• Lead strategic initiatives and transformation within YUM Connect's Digital & Technology Finance division, driving alignment with the company's mission and operating model to shape its future.
• Serve as steward of the organization’s mission and strategic direction, ensuring alignment across Digital & Technology and Finance.
• Lead the preparation of strategic deliverables — including earnings materials, Board of Directors updates, and Annual Operating Plan presentations.
• Partner with senior leadership to shape the agenda and content for leadership team meetings, enabling clear decisions and strategic focus.
• Translate organizational goals into clear initiatives, measurable outcomes, and aligned communications.
• Own the operating rhythms of the business — including monthly operating reviews, leadership team meetings, and key planning cycles.
• Lead the strategy and execution of key transformation programs, including offshoring, global talent partnerships, and workforce optimization.

Director, Strategy – Transformation

Technical Program Manager

• Lead end-to-end delivery of **large-scale Byte POS deployments**, from planning through go-live and stabilization
• Coordinate across **Technology, Restaurant Operations, Finance, Security, Legal, Franchise teams**, and external partners
• Drive integrated program plans covering software, hardware, integrations, network readiness, training, and cutover
• Identify risks early, manage dependencies, and keep complex programs moving forward
• Adapt deployment approaches to meet **regional and market-specific needs** while maintaining consistency and quality
• Communicate program progress, risks, and decisions to senior stakeholders
• Capture learnings from deployments and improve repeatable rollout playbooks

Technical Program Manager – POS Platform Enablement

• Partner with Product teams to define and commercialize short- and long-term product opportunities across the SaaS platform.
• Translate product strategy and roadmaps into clear financial plans, including investment requirements, ROI, and success metrics.
• Build, own, and actively manage product-level P&Ls, including targets for revenue, cost, and profitability.
• Establish financial guardrails to support decision-making on product prioritization, feature investment, and portfolio trade-offs.
• Maintain a strong understanding of SaaS cost structures and cost drivers to improve productivity, margin, and scalability.
• Drive cross-functional alignment to ensure commercial plans are executed and outcomes achieved.
• Own short- and long-term revenue planning by product, including forecasts, targets, and scenario analysis.

Director, Business Model – Commercialization

Manager

• Develops a system to track and maintain deal flow.
• Conducts due diligence on targets and provides second layer analysis of materials produced by BMUs or third-party advisors.
• Develops robust financial models and creates deal materials that help drive M&A/investing decisions.
• Prepares materials for presentation to senior leadership and/or Yum Deal Committee.
• Is a key thought partner to the CGO/CDO, LT and BMU Development leaders on PHG Development Strategy Inorganic/M&A.
• Leads modelling and financial analysis to inform Development growth decisions, including evaluation with Yum!/PHG Finance & Legal on commercial and policy implications.
• Engages with and influences stakeholders and senior leaders to ensure alignment and approval, including creation of presentation materials.
• Guides and participates with BMUs/Franchisees/External parties in designing structures, negotiating deals, performing due diligence, and creating final binding agreements across multiple geographies.
• Leads and develops people indirectly with a focus on leveraging a growth mindset and a diverse, global team.

Manager, M&A – Mergers & Acquisitions

QA Engineer

• The Manager, Food Safety and Quality Assurance is critical to ensuring that we live up to this value through creating and leading implementation of strategies that effectively manage food safety and quality risks.
• This role will lead Yum! Brands’ Supplier Food Safety Governance program and will publish, communicate, coach, and plan for worldwide adoption of policies, standards, and audit programs across our food supply chain.
• Critical accountabilities for this role include working with Business Units, Franchisees, Suppliers, Audit Companies, Certification Program Owners, and other key stakeholders to implement global approaches to measure and manage food safety & quality risks from the supply chain.
• The position will also support Business Units with problem solving, crisis management and acceptance of alternative standards, where appropriate.
• Additionally, this role carries the responsibility for driving continuous improvement strategies based on analysis of Yum!’s Food Safety compliance status and performance trends.

Manager, Food Safety and Quality Assurance

• Inspire, create, and develop trend-setting food products from initial prototype through full commercialization, ensuring concepts meet consumer, operational, and financial objectives.
• Collaborate with Brand Marketing and Consumer Insights partners to deliver “new-to-the-world” innovation and breakthrough product concepts.
• Partner with Product Development Commercialization, Quality Assurance, and Food Safety teams to ensure products meet quality and safety standards and are thoroughly tested and validated.
• Participate in Product Development team working sessions, contributing ideas, building on concepts, and advancing prototypes through collaboration.
• Create and manage project timelines, proactively identifying risks and solving problems to ensure programs are delivered on schedule.
• Proactively identify and support the planning, design, and execution of product showings, development sessions, product evaluations, competitive assessments, and special events.
• Manage multiple suppliers and vendors by providing clear direction, actionable feedback, and defined next steps.
• Prepare and deliver clear, concise, and professional presentations in both written and verbal formats to large and diverse audiences.
• Lead and develop a team of one to two Product Developers, providing guidance, coaching, and oversight of projects from ideation through launch

Manager, Product Development – Food Innovation

Attorney

• Gain knowledge and hands-on experience driving business outcomes.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to help drive the company’s key business initiatives.
• Support in ensuring global legal compliance across a wide range of focus areas.

Legal Summer Intern

• Assist in developing strategic vision, driving and tracking progress against it with the Development teams in the field.
• Track & manage the international development pipeline, ensuring growth commitments are met, identifying opportunities & risks, and communicating clearly and timely with TBI leadership.
• Develop and maintain dashboards to more effectively communicate and assess new restaurant growth, reinvestment actions, and sales/investment results.
• Evaluate new unit performance identifying risks & opportunities, deriving actionable insights, and communicating with urgency to inform strategy performance and drive decision-making.
• Provide analysis & modeling to drive insights and recommendations supporting key growth strategies. E.g. new market entries, portfolio optimization, business model improvement, development agreements/incentives, market mapping & site selection, etc.
• Lead development of Asset Information System (AIS) strategy execution & drive system enhancements and field adoption to establish a comprehensive, automated view of key Development information.
• Partner with Finance to develop an Equity Investment Assessment process to include capital review, equity returns, site assessment, performance improvement, etc. to inform and drive decision-making around international equity development.
• Aid in preparing presentations for key meetings e.g. ILT/ET meetings, Yum meetings, Franchise Conventions, FPCs/Investment committees, etc.

Senior Associate Manager, Development

General Counsel

• Support senior counsel with strategic defense of litigation matters nationwide, including commercial, consumer protection, ADA, personal injury, and real estate.
• Assist in responding to information requests, discovery, and pre-litigation filings.
• Support senior counsel with responses and objections to subpoenas and other legal documents.
• Assist in developing and implementing compliance frameworks stemming from litigation as needed.
• Assist with escalated customer complaints.
• Keep apprised of, and ensure compliance with, newly enacted state and federal laws.

Litigation Counsel

• Supervise the construction of Taco Bell Corporate restaurants for special projects, installations, tests and remodels within existing Taco Bell restaurants. Responsible for managing the entire project from design approval thru opening. Including, but not limited to, GC sourcing & bidding, invoicing, schedules, cost tracking, equipment vendors coordination, construction, punch list, opening and 11-month warranty tracking.
• Develop tight project budgets and aggressive schedules in partnership with Global Design team.
• Directly manage the work of general contractors and third party vendors as it relates to Taco Bell construction projects and delivery and install timing.
• Select qualified General Contractors (GC’s) for competitive bidding, review and qualify bids, award work and directly supervise the performance of GC’s throughout each project.
• Closely manage the documentation of all project-related material and documents (ie. bid documents, project trackers, invoices/draw requests, notices of construction progress, closeout documents, warranty inspections, etc.)
• Extensive (up to 30-50%) travel as required to perform construction site visits, pre-bid/pre-construction meetings to facilitate high-quality project openings.

Associate Construction Manager

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Lead marketing analysis efforts across the market including modeling future program financials, monitoring existing program performance, and analyzing past offer results. Includes collaboration with franchisees, supply chain, food innovation, and marketing partners.
• Monitor and analyze the financial health of our franchise system and provide actionable insights to senior leadership.
• Own the recurring financial planning and forecasting efforts at the business-unit level including sales forecasting, G&A management, and more.
• Own our profitable growth pillar and related projects including strategic pricing, investment planning, and protecting franchisee returns.
• Provide support to global and shared Finance and Control teams on market specific reporting and requests.

Associate Manager, Market Finance – Planning

Backend Engineer

• Develop Golang based GraphQL web services and Nodejs Typescript workflow services as part of our scalable interactive ecommerce platform
• Work with in-memory and external caching solutions to improve platform performance
• Write comprehensive unit tests
• Architect, design, optimize, and refactor code for peak performance
• Mentor junior engineers in engineering best practices
• Contribute to requirement elicitation and grooming of new functionalities
• Collaborate cross-functionally to design features impacting multiple microservices

Lead Golang Engineer

DevOps Engineer

• Troubleshoot and analyze store level issues.
• Conduct production validation test for deployments.
• Document processes, tools, and known solutions.
• Participate in problem records troubleshooting bridges.
• Communicate findings clearly during issue investigation.
• Analyze ingested metrics to identify store or platform level issues.
• Implement monitoring and alerting.
• Participate in sprint planning, design, operations and deployment meetings.
• Serve as SRE liaison for Platform, Service Desk and Proactive teams.
• Support vendor NextGen projects and platform upgrades.
• Maintain vendors build servers for smarthub in Taco Bell lab.
• Validate and coordinate resolutions across teams.
• Support existing tools.
• Apply technical knowledge and learning to improve the tooling.
• Initiate and work on projects that provide value to Engineering, SRE, or SD teams.