Data Product Owner, BMU Enablement

As the Product Manager for BMU Enablement, you will support the strategy and delivery of foundational data capabilities for our Brands and markets. This role focuses on building cross-brand data warehousing, BI, and reporting solutions. You will ensure these solutions are implemented effectively, aligned with the needs of business stakeholders in Yum, brands, and markets, and built with reusability, modularity, and design thinking in mind to maximize impact and sustainability. This is an execution-heavy role requiring deep coordination across business and technical stakeholders. You will act as a connecting rod between technical capability teams such as engineering and architecture, and cross-functional partners like PMO and User Experience designers, ensuring alignment from vision through implementation. Additionally, you will ensure alignment from a governance perspective, helping enact and uphold data standards within local implementations, in partnership with governance and data strategy stakeholders. You’ll also be responsible for supporting communication and change management across brands, markets, and Yum.

Key Responsibilities:

Solution Delivery & Implementation:

• Support the rollout of BMU capabilities in close partnership with engineering, regional data leads, and business stakeholders.
• Manage user stories, Jira boards, documentation, UAT, and bug resolution workflows.
• Ensure intake and feedback loops are clearly structured and incorporated into future release cycles.

Product Backlog & Requirement Management:

• Translate feature needs into clear documentation and sequencing in partnership with senior leadership.
• Support backlog grooming, sprint planning, and requirement handoffs to delivery teams.
• Maintain documentation repositories and delivery tracking dashboards.

Cross-functional Support & Coordination:

• Act as the day-to-day connector between central product, technical, and market data leadership.
• Ensure decisions and tradeoffs are logged, communicated, and reflected in updated workstreams.

Communication & Change Management:

• Help prepare rollout communications, demos, and feature documentation for stakeholder distribution.
• Support the creation of reference materials including FAQs, release notes, and decision logs.
• Provide light enablement and onboarding support to markets as needed.

Product Value Realization & Feedback Loops:

• Define success metrics and partner with analytics and business teams to ensure solutions deliver measurable value.
• Coordinate UAT in a way that reflects business use cases and validates solution readiness for user adoption.
• Collect structured feedback from stakeholders and synthesize it into future backlog prioritization and continuous improvement.
• Ensure product launches include appropriate messaging, positioning, and support for sustained use.

Salary Range: $120,000 to $140,000 annually + bonus eligibility. This is the expected salary range for this position. Ultimately, in determining pay, we'll consider the successful candidate’s location, experience, and other job-related factors.

The Yum! Brands story is simple. We have the four distinctive, relevant and easy global brands – KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and The Habit Burger Grill -- born from the hopes and dreams, ambitions and grit of passionate entrepreneurs. And we want more of this to create our future!

As the world’s largest restaurant company we have a clear and compelling mission: to build the world’s most love, trusted and fastest-growing restaurant brands. The key and not-so-secret ingredient in our recipe for growth is our unrivaled talent and culture, which fuels our results.

We’re looking for talented, motivated, visionary and team-oriented leaders to join us as we elevate and personalize the customer experience across our 48,000 restaurants, operating in 145 countries and territories around the world!

We put pizza, chicken and tacos in the hands of customers through customized ordering, unique delivery approaches, app experiences, and click and collect services and consumer data analytics creating unique customer dining experiences – and we are only getting started.

Employees may work for a single brand and potentially grow to support all company-owned brands depending on their role. Regardless of where they work, as a company opening an average of 8 restaurants a day worldwide, the growth opportunities are endless. Taco Bell has been named of the 10 Most Innovative Companies in the World by Fast Company; Pizza Hut delivers more pizzas than any other pizza company in the world and KFC’s still use its 75-year-old finger lickin’ good recipe including secret herbs and spices to hand-bread its chicken every day.

Yum! and its brands have offices in Chicago, IL, Louisville KY, Irvine, CA, Plano, TX and other markets around the world. We don’t just say we are a great place to work – our commitments to the world and our employees show it. Yum! has been named to the Dow Jones Sustainability North America Index and ranked among the top 100 Best Corporate Citizens by Corporate Responsibility Magazine in addition to being named to the Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index. Our employees work in an environment where the value of “believe in all people” is lived every day, enjoying benefits including but not limited to: 4 weeks’ vacation PLUS holidays, sick leave and 2 paid days to volunteer at the cause of their choice and a dollar-for-dollar matching gift program; generous parental leave; competitive benefits including medical, dental, vision and life insurance as well as a 6% 401k match – all encompassed in Yum!’s world-famous recognition culture.