Yum! Center for Global Franchise Excellence

Manager

• Partner to achieve the US national new store Franchise Development Plan and build a pipeline for future franchise development growth.
• Shepard projects through the Taco Bell Development Approval process.
• Complete and execute plans and strategies for priority markets in designated regions.
• Identify and action against trade areas best suited to urban development.
• Identify opportunities in rural markets to develop small freestanding assets or viable endcaps with drive-thru or inline assets.
• Identify areas where new franchisees are needed and partner with the Franchise Recruiting team to recruit.
• Develop, fill, and maintain the pipeline of new restaurants; Forecast the timeline of new restaurant openings and assess risks.
• Act as owner for designated markets and help lead the broader development team toward the development goals established in those trade areas.
• Engage with the Brand Strategy team to find solutions to development barriers such as impact, growth approval, viable vehicles, etc.

Real Estate Manager, Franchise Development

Public Relations

• Develop and lead earned and shared media plans for Pizza Hut US.
• Build press-worthy narratives and drive media relations.
• Manage PR agency and deliver partnerships & activations to improve brand awareness.
• Support cross-functional teams to integrate PR and partnerships early in campaigns.

Manager, Public Relations

• Evaluate and execute acquisitions, divestitures, equity investments, and refranchising initiatives across Yum! and its brands, with increasing autonomy on complex transactions.
• Partner with senior deal leads to underwrite opportunities through financial modeling, valuation analyses, and scenario planning to inform investment and capital allocation decisions.
• Analyze and synthesize materials from counterparties and advisors, developing clear, actionable insights and recommendations.
• Review transaction documents (Letters of Intent, Asset Purchase Agreements, and related legal materials) and support negotiations in partnership with Legal.
• Lead or support U.S. refranchising transactions end‑to‑end, including offering materials and stakeholder coordination.
• Manage closing and post‑closing processes to ensure deliverables and follow‑ups are completed.
• Coordinate internal and external stakeholders throughout each transaction, ensuring approval paths, timelines, and dependencies are met.
• Prepare materials for Deal Committee, Capital Committee, senior leadership, and the Yum Board of Directors.
• Maintain Yum!’s M&A knowledge base, track industry trends, and support pipeline development.

Associate Manager, M&A – Mergers and Acquisitions

Product Designer

• Lead experience strategy and design execution for the Menu platform across multiple initiatives and workstreams, from discovery through delivery
• Independently frame complex, ambiguous problems involving data models, workflows, permissions, and global operational constraints
• Design scalable, system-aware solutions that balance usability, flexibility, and technical feasibility across brands and regions
• Partner deeply with Product, Engineering, Data, and Operations to align on priorities, tradeoffs, and delivery plans
• 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 and data rich systems
• Own end-to-end design across multiple Menu views and states, including station workflows, error states, and edge cases.
• Create interaction models, patterns, and frameworks that support consistency across the experience.
• Deliver production-ready designs, specs, and prototypes that engineers can implement with confidence.
• Act as the primary design partner for Menu between 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 environments where accuracy, 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

Operations

• Oversee all on-premise channel operations to ensure high performance and superior customer experiences.
• Manage the deployment and performance of all FOH and BOH technologies, including KDS and POS.
• Manage the performance and optimization of digital menu boards to enhance in-restaurant customer engagement.
• Ensure the effective implementation, management, and performance of kiosk and self-service technologies.
• Develop and execute strategies to scale on-premise technology solutions across restaurants.
• Continuously analyze performance data to identify opportunities for improvement and optimize operations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align on-premise operations with overall business objectives.
• Manage the commercialization and operational integration of digital platforms to enhance efficiency.

Associate Manager, Digital & Technology Ops

Recruitment

• Provide essential administrative and logistical support to the Talent Acquisition (TA) team.
• Support the end-to-end hiring process, including interview scheduling, onsite interview coordination, job postings, and completion of required documentation.
• Manage interview schedules: Coordinate virtual and onsite interviews in partnership with recruiters and executive assistants, including logistics such as travel arrangements and room bookings.
• Prepare interview itineraries: Create and distribute detailed interview schedules and itineraries to candidates and interviewers.
• Serve as the main point of contact for candidates during onsite interviews, ensuring a smooth and welcoming experience.
• Quickly address and resolve last-minute scheduling or logistical issues in collaboration with recruiters.
• Review job descriptions and post open roles to the Yum! Careers site in a timely manner.
• Post roles to specialty job boards and manage related invoices and tracking.
• Facilitate new hire documentation and onboarding processes, including monitoring background checks.
• Assist with ad-hoc reporting and administrative tasks as needed to support the TA team.

Recruiting Coordinator – 6 Month STA

Analyst

• Maintaining and updating marketing spend trackers to provide clear visibility of year‑to‑date and forecasted expenditure, highlighting variances and communicating overspends or anomalies to budget holders.
• Collaborating with marketing and commercial finance teams through regular catch‑ups to ensure advertising spend remains aligned with approved budgets across markets.
• Identifying and implementing opportunities for process improvement aimed at increasing efficiency and strengthening internal controls in line with Sarbanes‑Oxley (SOX) requirements.
• Performing periodic and monthly balance sheet reconciliations to ensure accuracy and completeness.
• Delivering period‑end and month‑end tasks within strict reporting deadlines.
• Supporting internal and external audit activities by preparing documentation and responding to queries.
• Preparing franchise billing requests accurately and in accordance with agreed timelines and processes.

Analyst – 12 Month FTC

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

• 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.**