Yum! Center for Global Franchise Excellence

Full-stack Engineer

• Lead, mentor, and coach a team of Software Engineers, supporting their technical growth and career development.
• Act as a hands-on technical leader, setting coding standards, architectural principles, and best practices.
• Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and learning-oriented team culture with strong ownership and accountability.
• Guide engineers on effective and responsible use of AI tools to enhance daily engineering work (e.g., design, coding, debugging, testing, documentation).
• Proactively identify, troubleshoot, and resolve complex performance or scalability issues.
• Work closely with DevOps/SRE teams to improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment reliability, and runtime stability.
• Drive improvements in system observability, monitoring, and alerting.
• Ensure high standards of code quality through design reviews, code reviews, automated testing, and documentation.
• Design, develop, and review robust Java-based systems using Spring ecosystem and microservices architecture.
• Work effectively with cross-functional and international teams (e.g., UK, US).
• Communicate complex technical topics clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Leverage AI-assisted developer tools (e.g., for code generation, refactoring, test creation, log analysis, incident triage, and documentation) to improve development speed without compromising quality.
• Explore and propose practical AI use cases in backend engineering, and system observability.

Senior Software Engineer

Strategy

• Lead end-to-end NRM strategy development, including diagnostics across pricing, value architecture, promotional strategy, and portfolio design.
• Define Key Value Item (KVI) strategies aligned to consumer perception and competitive positioning, and develop omni-channel growth strategies across in-store, delivery, and digital.
• Shape initiatives to accelerate Same Store Sales Growth (SSSG) and Average Unit Volume (AUV), establishing clear 12–24 month roadmaps.
• Translate analytics into insights and actionable commercial recommendations in partnership with NRM Finance to define financial ambition.
• Lead cross-functional workshops with Brand, Finance, Marketing, and Operations teams to align on pricing and growth decisions.
• Develop executive-ready storytelling and materials, delivering clear oral and written communications in senior leadership forums

Net Revenue Management Strategy Manager

People Operations

• Partner with functional leaders to shape and deliver the people strategy, ensuring broad alignment to commercial priorities, growth ambitions, and long-term capability needs
• Partner with senior leadership to shape organisation design, capability, and workforce strategy
• Translate strategy into clear, prioritised execution plans that drive measurable business outcomes
• Act as a key member of the P&C leadership team, contributing beyond people topics
• Act as a trusted advisor to C-suite and senior leaders, providing challenge, insight, and perspective
• Drive high-quality decision making through data, insight, and strong judgment
• Hold leaders to account on talent, performance, and culture standards
• Navigate complex, high-stakes decisions with credibility and confidence
• Lead organisation design and workforce planning, ensuring the business is structured for performance, scale and the future
• Build and embed a robust talent architecture (succession, performance, development, mobility)
• Raise the bar on leadership capability and accountability across the organisation
• Make and support tough people decisions where needed to drive performance
• Shape and embed a high-performance, values-led culture across the RSC
• Ensure culture is driven through leadership behaviour, not just programmes
• Use engagement and inclusion insights to drive targeted, meaningful action
• Champion a best-in-class employee experience that supports performance and retention
• Shape and drive enterprise-wide change and transformation initiatives (ex: growth, ways of working)
• Ensure disciplined execution, clear communication, and strong adoption of initiatives
• Anticipate future capability needs and build the organisation ahead of demand
• Building strong relationships with employees and coaches across the RSC and be a culture leader
• Bringing the outside in and listening to our people to design and embed new ways of working, policies and practices for our RSC team that maximise team and individual productivity
• Coaching our people to continually deliver exceptional performance that they feel proud of and support talent mobility
• Team player- Strong interpersonal and teamwork skills. Collaborative nature, willing to work constructively with input from coaches and peers. Intellectual curiosity and great judgement skills.

Head of People & Culture Business Partner

Growth Marketing

• Partner with Chief Development Officers and market leaders to design franchise growth plans that support KFC’s ambition to be the largest global QSR
• Review market growth strategies and translate them into clear, executive-ready recommendations for senior leadership approval
• Lead our Franchise Policy Committee responsible for reviewing and approving franchise growth incentives and investments
• Build financial models and business cases to evaluate complex franchise incentives, development investments, and expansion scenarios
• Travel across 150+ markets to identify best practices, strengthen relationships, and share learnings across the global system
• Review and help assess prospective strategic franchisees, including evaluating strategic fit, growth potential, and long-term partnership value
• Support select M&A-related work, including strategic assessment, financial analysis, and integration planning related to growth opportunities
• Partner cross-functionally with Finance, Strategy, Legal, and market teams to align on development priorities for each of Yum’s 13 BMUs.
• Help shape strategies that accelerate KFC’s global growth through strong, high-performing franchise partnerships

Manager, Global Franchise Growth

Director

• The Director, Portfolio Delivery & PMO is responsible for the governance, operating model, and portfolio coordination required to scale Byte’s revenue-impacting initiatives globally from approval through deployment.
• This role leads program governance and end-to-end deployment orchestration across products, brands, markets, and delivery partners, ensuring complex cross-functional initiatives are executed with clarity, accountability, and predictability.
• The Director establishes the frameworks, stage gates, decision forums, and portfolio processes that enable scalable delivery, while overseeing the Global Portfolio Delivery and PMO to drive consistent execution across markets.
• The role is accountable for aligning priorities, sequencing work across markets, managing program-level risks and dependencies, and ensuring initiatives meet defined readiness criteria before progressing through key milestones.
• Governance frameworks and stage gates are defined, adopted, and followed
• Ownership and decision rights are clear across all delivery participants
• Program-level risks and dependencies are identified and escalated early
• Deployments follow consistent, predictable operating standards
• Initiatives are not advanced or closed without meeting defined governance criteria

Director, Portfolio Delivery – PMO

Chief Marketing Officer

• Build a distinctive, culturally relevant brand across LA&C by setting a clear vision for how Taco Bell shows up in each market and pushing for work that breaks through, not blends in
• Design and embed a scalable marketing operating system across the region, including briefing, planning, execution, and measurement, so markets can consistently deliver high-quality work
• Shift the organization from reactive marketing to proactive planning, ensuring clarity in priorities, calendar, and resource allocation across all markets
• Develop and coach marketing leaders across LA&C and franchisee organizations, building capability, confidence, and independence over time
• Create strong alignment between marketing, operations, finance, and digital, ensuring marketing decisions are grounded in commercial impact and operational reality
• Lead the Regional Marketing Fund (RMF) with discipline, ensuring investments are focused, measurable, and tied to business outcomes
• Drive performance through marketing, with a clear link to transactions, mix, and profitability, not just activity or brand metrics
• Build and scale integrated ways of working across agencies and partners, including the implementation of an Integrated Agency Team (IAT) model in each market
• Operate as a system leader, identifying root causes and building long-term solutions

Chief Marketing Officer – Latin America & Caribbean

Community Manager

• Assist Manager in setting strategy for franchisee engagement with local nonprofit partners
• Lead the strategy for communicating with grantees, planning the annual grant awards announcement
• Managing the effort with Communications and Marketing teams to highlight grantees’ work through storytelling.
• Lead implementation of grant program evaluation framework to assess the strategies of the program(s) and identify areas for improvement.
• Onboard new vendors as needed to position up our grantmaking for future growth.
• Manage and grow team administering multi-million annual grants portfolio and serve as lead liaison to 50+ nonprofits.
• Assist Manager in leading of program delivery of the Community Grants, Emergency Relief Grants, Capital Grants, Impact Fund, and International Grants programs and lead the full program grant cycles.
• Oversee grants disbursement and grant impact reporting.
• Oversee grant review processes: proposals, evaluations, and site visits.
• Inform and advise leadership about program insights and best practices in grantmaking.
• Actively work with the communications team to capture, develop, share, and utilize knowledge to lift the work of grantees.
• Oversee new engagement opportunities and facilitating connections between franchisees and grantees.
• Collaborate and network with industry experts and funders.

Community Grants Program Lead

Analyst

• Responsible for field (restaurant) compensation delivery for approximately 900 equity restaurants
• Timely bonus plan administration
• Minimum wage monitoring and issue resolution
• Assisting with survey participation/market analysis
• Delivery of year-end compensation activities (salary planning, annual bonus payouts, etc)
• Report into the Total Rewards Business Partner (TRBP) – Taco Bell & Habit Burger
• Work closely with the broader Yum Total Rewards teams, Division/Brand People & Culture teams, HRIT, Payroll, and external vendors

Associate Compensation Analyst

Manager

• Execute transaction-driving calendar campaigns using audience-first strategies to support sales and key business priorities like Value and Cantina.
• Lead customer growth by partnering with media teams to reach new, light, and lapsed users through a mix of mass and targeted media.
• Collaborate closely with Social, Creative, Product/Pillar, and I&A teams to align inputs, ensure strong creative execution, and support KPI development.
• Manage day-to-day campaign execution including trafficking, asset delivery, timelines, and cross-functional coordination to ensure campaigns launch smoothly.
• Apply data and insights, including audience segmentation and campaign performance, to inform optimizations and improve results over time.
• Contribute to test-and-learn initiatives and share key takeaways to support continuous improvement in media performance.
• Lead media operations including budget tracking, Upfront coordination, and identification of emerging media opportunities.

Senior Associate Manager, Integrated Media, Marcom

Payroll

• Payroll Processing: Calculate and process salaries, overtime, bonuses, and deductions (tax, benefits) in a timely manner.
• Compliance & Tax: Ensure strict adherence to federal, state, and local tax laws; prepare and submit payroll tax reports.
• Accounting: End to end accounting with payroll.
• General Ledger Maintenance: Reconcile payroll-related general ledger accounts and prepare journal entries.
• Support month‑end close activities related to payroll accounting, Post payroll journals and ensure accurate mapping in the general ledger.
• System Administration: Update and maintain payroll software, including employee data, hires, terminations, and leave tracking.
• Reporting & Auditing: Generate reports for management review and participate in payroll audits.
• Employee Support: Resolve payroll-related inquiries and discrepancies efficiently.
• Systems & Process Improvement: Work on payroll systems and ERP tools such as ADP, Oracle, JDE (or equivalent).

Assistant Manager, Payroll

• Support month-end close activities and meet reporting timelines.
• Review trial balance movements and validate key P&L and Balance Sheet accounts.
• Prepare monthly P&L results and key drivers for the Local Management Team.
• Submit monthly financial statements in Hyperion with complete and accurate data.
• Coordinate with Business Development and Legal to reconcile unit counts and update store trackers.
• Investigate variances and document assumptions and adjustments.
• Share final unit-count outputs with the Local Management Team and the Global External Reporting Team.
• Assist in preparing the roll-forward schedule.
• Prepare and consolidate monthly Balance Sheet schedules.
• Prepare Balance Sheet roll-forward and variance analysis and submit required Hyperion inputs.
• Prepare monthly P&L variance analysis and management deck commentary (vs. prior month, budget, and forecast).
• Support SSG and SSSG calculations, MD&A, and commentary for the Controller Deck.
• Identify trends and risks and drive process improvements to improve accuracy and timeliness.
• Prepare and deliver the Controller Deck with clear commentary and supporting schedules.

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Support the achievement of Yum D&T’s financial targets for revenue, G&A, and operating profit by actively building the annual operating plan and quarterly forecasts
• Forecasting responsibilities will include employee-related costs (salaries, bonus, benefits, capex rates), project costs, license & vendor costs, depreciation, T&E, and other soft costs
• Create and align repeatable inter-company charging mechanisms to reflect “cost truth” across Byte product P&Ls
• Identify and communicate risks and opportunities, period/quarterly forecasting & analysis, preparing periodic & quarterly cause of change walks, reviewing G&A spend with leadership to promote stewardship and achievement of Yum D&T’s operating profit target
• Evolve and maintain software/license tracking
• Explore opportunities to drive optimizations and savings across software suite
• Forecast 3–5-year software outlook to feed into Byte’s Long Range Plan (LRP)
• Own Byte’s “Spend Smarter” savings target
• Lead ideation and execution. Develop list of opportunities, then work with cross-functional partners to deliver savings
• Summarize insights and implications in presentations and other communications to leadership
• Explore new ways of leveraging AI to automate processes
• Own strategic projects, requests and/or analysis as needed

Associate Manager, Finance

Account Manager

• Support partner-specific delivery strategy by analyzing performance, identifying trends, and helping inform recommendations
• Assist in managing day-to-day communication with DoorDash and Grubhub, including coordination, follow-ups, and issue resolution
• Coordinate and track aggregator-specific tests, including setup, performance monitoring, and results reporting
• Track and help manage co-marketing budgets, ensuring accuracy and alignment with planned initiatives
• Support briefing and execution of campaign assets in partnership with Marketing and Creative teams
• Coordinate with the Media team to support integration of delivery initiatives into broader media plans
• Assist in preparing materials for joint business planning and quarterly business reviews
• Help identify opportunities for tech and operational enhancements to improve delivery performance and experience
• Ensure partner initiatives are aligned with internal priorities by maintaining timelines, tracking deliverables, and supporting cross-functional communication

Senior Analyst, Delivery Partnerships

Operations

• Drive operational excellence, franchisee performance, and brand standards across the franchise system.
• Lead and develop a team of Franchise Business Consultants.
• Partner cross-functionally and influence franchise owners to deliver consistent, high-quality guest experiences.
• Ensure alignment with brand vision, growth objectives, and performance expectations.

Director, Franchise Operations

• Own financial performance and support commercialization of the Byte Digital Suite products (Commerce, Connect, Menu/Portal).
• Build and maintain product-level financial models and P&Ls, including revenue, cost, and margin tracking.
• Partner with Product teams to evaluate new features and initiatives, translating them into business cases (investment, ROI, payback).
• Monitor product performance against targets and proactively identify risks and opportunities.
• Support the Director in shaping product strategy through financial insights and scenario analysis.
• Lead short- and long-term revenue planning and track progress for the Digital Suite, including forecasts, targets, and variance analysis.
• Partner with Control on invoicing alignment and revenue reporting inputs.
• Analyze drivers of revenue performance (e.g., adoption, pricing, mix) and recommend actions to improve outcomes.
• Support execution of pricing strategies across Digital Suite products, ensuring consistency with overall pricing frameworks.
• Analyze pricing performance and contribute to pricing optimization efforts (e.g., packaging, tiers, discounting).
• Partner with Sales and Go-To-Market teams to provide financial modeling on deals and commercial structures.
• Act as a key partner to Product, Finance, and GTM teams to ensure alignment between product plans, investment use cases and financial outcomes.
• Help drive adoption of standardized tools, processes, and reporting for commercialization and revenue management.
• Communicate insights clearly to stakeholders, enabling informed decision-making.