Join Yum! Brands as the Supply Chain Management Projects & Value Lead, where you will drive high-impact, end-to-end supply chain initiatives that improve quality, enhance supply reliability, optimize cost, and unlock commercial value across the business. In this role, you’ll lead key projects, champion continuous improvement, accelerate our sustainability and digitization efforts, and support the integration of Yum! Brands across Europe. You’ll partner closely with cross-functional leaders and external suppliers to deliver strategic, scalable, and future-focused supply chain solutions.
Responsibilities- Lead and deliver high-impact supply chain projects focused on improving quality, supply reliability, sustainability, and cost optimization.
- Build and manage detailed project plans, ensuring on-time execution, effective risk management, and seamless handover to operational owners.
- Drive agile program prioritization and resource allocation to maximize commercial value and strengthen the end-to-end value chain.
- Optimize supply chain processes, identifying opportunities for efficiency, capability building, digitization, and continuous improvement.
- Guide commercialization of new and promotional products, ensuring supply alignment, stakeholder engagement, and integrated delivery across markets.
- Provide strategic input into regional supply chain planning, including logistics, procurement, category strategy, and inflation outlook communication.
- Develop and maintain KPI scorecards to track performance, measure impact, and support data-driven decision making.
- Foster strong internal and external partnerships, ensuring alignment across brands, markets, suppliers, consultants, and leadership teams.
- 8–10 years of supply chain–related experience, including at least 3 years in a management role
- Demonstrated understanding of the key drivers that enable responsiveness and agility within the supply chain
- Strong project management skills with a proven track record of delivering high-impact initiatives
- Solid commercial and financial acumen
- Formal project management experience preferred
Skills Required
- 8-10 years of supply chain-related experience
- At least 3 years in a management role
- Strong project management skills
- Demonstrated understanding of supply chain drivers
- Formal project management experience
Yum! Brands Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Corporate roles include four weeks of vacation, year‑round half‑day Fridays, company holidays, dedicated “Live Well” days, and paid volunteer days. These policies contribute meaningfully to overall compensation value for corporate employees.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Offerings include free access to mental‑health counselors, onsite/virtual wellness tools, onsite gyms in select offices, and wellbeing discounts. Smoking‑cessation and weight‑management programs further bolster lifestyle support.
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Parental & Family Support — Benefits span family‑planning coverage such as adoption, fertility, and baby‑bonding leave. Corporate materials also note enhanced parental leave for U.S. corporate employees.
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What We Do
Yum! Brands, Inc., based in Louisville, Kentucky, and its subsidiaries franchise or operate a system of over 55,000 restaurants in more than 155 countries and territories under the Company’s concepts – KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and the Habit Burger Grill. The Company's KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut brands are global leaders of the chicken, Mexican-style food, and pizza categories, respectively. The Habit Burger Grill is a fast casual restaurant concept specializing in made-to-order chargrilled burgers, sandwiches and more. What makes Yum! a great place to work? It's our people. As the world's largest restaurant company, we invest in people capability so that our global workforce can make the most of their careers. With ongoing opportunities for personal and professional success, we've built a culture that rewards and recognizes great effort while providing the flexibility that is so important to all of us.
