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Job Description
What You'll Be Serving Up :
The Associate Manager, Strategy is responsible for driving high-impact strategic initiatives for KFC globally, partnering with Finance and cross-functional leaders at Corporate and Business Units to identify and support execution of emerging opportunities that will enable step-change growth for our business. This role will help bring to life our strategy and support critical projects in service of that.
Here's How You'll Spice Things Up :
Strategic Execution (50%)
- Partner with cross-functional project teams to help develop, frame, and analyze the most effective ways to deliver KFC's strategic objectives.
- Transform financial analysis into presentations with meaningful conclusions used to inform / influence both KFC Global Leadership Team and Business Unit leadership.
- Define and manage robust processes, dashboards and deliverables to track progress, identify risks, and drive accountability for the successful execution of strategic and transformation projects.
- Proactively support Global Leadership Team members as they execute the plan for each initiative to overcome barriers, solve problems, re-allocate resources, and adjust as needed based on internal and external factors.
- Embed with cross-functional teams as necessary to champion work and drive results
Communications & Measurement (40%)
Ad Hoc Analysis and Reporting (10%)
What You Bring to the Table :
Education / Certifications
Undergraduate Degree from accredited 4-year university
Experience
What's In It for You :
About Us
Who is KFC?
KFC, a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE : YUM.), is a global chicken restaurant brand with a rich, decades-long history of success and innovation. It all started with one cook, Colonel Harland Sanders, who believed in doing things "the hard way," because nothing ever got done right by cutting corners. Hard work, hospitality and integrity are still core to our brand today.
While we're grounded in our heritage, we're always looking forward to the future and evolving to make it easier for our customers to enjoy our chicken. Through digital innovation, our goal is to make KFC available everywhere, implementing a frictionless & friendly experience leveraging scalable technology stack and standards and accelerating rollouts via multiple channels. And we're growing... a new KFC restaurant opens somewhere in the world every six hours.
As we grow, KFC is committed to doing so responsibly through commitments like our 2025 global plastic packaging goal and the KFC Harvest program, which to date has donated over 82 million pounds of food to our local communities around the world. Our purposes is feeding people's potential, whether that means helping team members get through school, turn their passion for fried chicken into a career, or being a positive force in our communities. We fight inequality and believe in all people. Everyone has a seat at our table : from millionaires to truck drivers, to our more than 800,000 Team Members, to our customers around the world, KFC treats everyone like family.
Our people are what make us distinctively KFC, and we value every opportunity to celebrate the unique perspectives and backgrounds they bring to our company. To learn more about KFC Global, check out our company page here.
