Senior Franchise Development Strategy Analyst

What You’ll Be Serving Up:

The Development Strategy Senior Analyst is responsible for supporting the development and implementation of KFC Global Growth and Development strategies through project leadership and analytic support to global Development teams, including franchise and corporate restaurant development, market planning and penetration strategies, and new restaurant and reinvestment analyses.

Here’s How You’ll Spice Things Up:

Analysis:

• Provide analytic support for KFC Development-related strategies, processes, and policies.
• Develop and support strategic frameworks, financial models, and insight-based analysis to drive global growth.
• Lead the ongoing tracking and review of incentive agreements, communicating meaningful insights to key stakeholders.

Reporting:

• Develop and maintain dashboards to assess new restaurant growth, reinvestment actions, and sales/investment results. Deliver meaningful and concise insights to the global development team and the KFC global leadership team.
• Create and maintain key suite of standard reporting and analytics to enhance team productivity, expedite decision-making, improve forecasting, and drive actionable insights.
• Manage the development reporting and forecasting process by consolidating and analyzing information.

Strategic Initiatives:

• Store Data Master Data Management Solution and data related initiatives which includes:
  • Lead the ongoing management of the Asset Information System (AIS) as the central repository and single source of truth for critical global development data.
  • Collaborating with D&T and internal stakeholders to build relevant dashboards. 
  • Partner with stakeholders to ensure adherence to standardized processes and governance frameworks, maintaining consistent and accurate data reporting.
  • Coordinate and oversee data clean-up initiatives to address data quality issues.
  • Manage AIS-related improvement projects aimed at enhancing system functionality and usability.
  • Driving profitability and sustainable restaurants.

Other Development Support:

• Support KFC Global Leadership Teams as needed in planning, business reviews, and ad hoc projects.

What You Bring to the Table:

Education/Certifications:

• Required: Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Business, or related field

Experience:

• Development, strategy, or finance experience with demonstrated organizational impact and increasing responsibility
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite of products, including advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills
• Self-motivated, intellectually curious, logical thinker, and Customer Maniac
• Desire to have a large commercial impact on the organization
• Proven track record driving results through creative thinking and problem solving
• Project management and organization capability
• Excellent interpersonal, influencing, and collaboration skills
• Strong communication with ability to present to senior leadership.
• Experience modeling complex business issues to influence decisions through data
• Ability to manage high-volume workload and adapt to shifting priorities.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.

Preferred:

• Experience in multi-unit restaurant/retail industry
• Familiarity with Power BI, computer programming, GIS, and other real estate-related tools
• Experience with dashboards and reporting automation

What’s In It for You:

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Opportunity to innovate within a global brand and make a significant impact.
• Collaborative, fast-paced work environment with a focus on professional growth and development.

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.