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Position Overview:

Responsibilities

• Manage the development of Supply Chain sustainability strategy, ensuring this translates broader business commitments into supply chain goals & targets across our People, Planet & Food pillars
• Partner with KFC Global & Yum! sustainability leads to represent Supply Chain in broader ESG strategy development & goals setting
• Work cross-functionally & with our regional BU teams to create a multiyear implementation roadmap for Supply Chain to achieve our commitments & defined SC sustainability strategy, and drive progress against this
• Define & implement metrics to measure progress against key ESG goals and provide regular reports and updates on performance to the KFC Global team
• Identify best practice approaches and tools within the KFC business units and create repeatable models which can be scaled across all markets to accelerate the delivery of goals
• Partner with the Global & Regional teams to integrate ESG methods into our supply chain management processes, including category management, procurement & logistics
• Develop & implement capability building programs for internal stakeholders on ESG practices & standards
• Work with external supply partners and industry peers to understand initiatives / innovations which can support & accelerate ESG delivery and identify forums / opportunities for these to be shared
• Stay up-to-date with sustainability trends and best practice to ensure our supply chain strategy remains aligned with changing developments & regulations

Requirements

• 10+ years’ experience in supply chain management or related field in the food / beverage industry, with good knowledge of end-to-end Supply Chain management, including procurement, planning and logistics
• Exception knowledge sustainability methods and best practices, with experience in developing and implementing sustainability strategies & goals
• Excellent communication & collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively and influence key stakeholders across the business
• Solid project management skills, with the ability to prioritize, manage multiple projects, and meet deadlines

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.