Manager, Poultry, FIT

What You’ll Be Serving Up:

This position maintains and improves the quality of KFC Chicken Brand Standard products, while developing new ones; by partnering with FIT managers around the world as well as multiple KFC poultry suppliers ensure the safety, quality, and consistency of poultry products delivered to KFC restaurants.

Here’s How You’ll Spice Things Up:

• Drives KFC Global Food Innovation and Technology as well as Yum! Food safety and Quality Assurance strategy, goals and objectives.
• Partner with a Global Poultry Product Managers or FIT leaders around the world to meet current Poultry Brand Standard specifications. 
• Supports poultry commercialization initiatives, spec review and supply chain initiatives as guided by FIT KFC Global Sr. Manager.
• Manages relationship with multiple poultry suppliers through his/her market counterparts.
• Develop a monitor & performance system to ensure compliance to specifications and Yum QA Programs by markets.
• Drives follow up and corrective action plans on all critical issues.  
• Develop new poultry products to increase the KFC Core menu. i.e. new chicken fillet, chicken nuggets, 9pz cut within different weight ranges.
• Ensures specifications comply with all FDA/USDA and local regulatory guidelines, manages specification updates ensuring all markets comply and meet product design requirements.  
• Monitors raw material supply and demand trends to determine changes in Global specifications that can positively impact the business; assists development of contingency plans for such occurrences.
• Provides risk/benefit analysis of supplier partners and influences approved supplier decisions based on supplier performance against key metrics.
• Identifies opportunities for product/process improvements through root cause and trend analysis.  
• Leads “Global Poultry Colleges” to drive quality improvements for KFC ingredients.
   

What You Bring to the Table:

Education/Certifications:

• Bachelor of Science in Poultry Science, Food Science or related scientific field.  M.S./PhD. Preferred.  

Experience: 

• Years of Experience – 10 years food industry experience in poultry QA, Production, Processing and/or R&D minimum 3 years supervisory/management experience.
• Demonstrated success in talent management and assessment. 
• Strong product management experience. 
• Willing to travel up to 70%.
• Strong interpersonal skills and strong personal initiative.
• Must be able to build alliances and be a team player. 
• Must be able to present material in composed and confident manner. 
• Strong application of principle, practices, and procedures within area of specialization. 
• Ability to plan and prioritize multiple projects. 
• Must be able to execute projects within timelines and budgets. 
• Must be able to anticipate and identify potential challenges and recommend course of action to resolve. 
• Must demonstrate sound judgement and strong reasoning skills.
   

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.