Sr. Paralegal, Contract Manager

What You’ll Be Serving Up:

Manage end-to-end legal support for contract intake and negotiations across all KFC US departments. Your mission will be to ensure compliance, mitigate risk, and support KFC US business goals by driving effective contracting processes. 

Here’s How You’ll Spice Things Up:

• Manage intake of vendor contract requests and maintain appropriate tracking, reporting and storage of same.
• Draft and negotiate vendor contracts, including: non-disclosure agreements, testing distribution and supply agreements, master products and services agreements, master consulting agreements, data processing agreements, statements of work, order forms, facilities agreements, and hotel and event agreements.
• Provide accurate, helpful risk assessments and work proactively and cooperatively to develop solutions to complex problems. Appropriately escalate high risk issues to supervising attorney. 
• Support RFP process by ensuring that stakeholders understand timelines and critical legal requirements.
• Develop expertise related to compliance with internal policies governing the collection and use of customer data.  Support efforts to ensure customer data is collected and processed in compliance with applicable data privacy laws.
• Work cross-functionally with Yum! Stakeholders to ensure contracts comply with internal company standards.
• Work on special projects to support corporate and restaurant technology initiatives as requested.
• Ensure ongoing alignment with internal teams through regular 1x1 meetings, email communications, training/coaching, and measuring and sharing results.
• Other assignments and tasks as delegated by the Chief Legal Officer. 

What You Bring to the Table:

Education/Certifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required, paralegal certification preferred 

Experience 

• At least 4 years’ paralegal experience in a law firm or law department – (in-house experience preferred))
• Mindset focused on providing risk assessments and real-world solutions. Ability to support large number of business stakeholders and understand their needs and goals, tolerance for risk, team members’ roles and skills. Capacity always to be flexible and to embrace the support role. 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. 
• Ability to build individual relationships and to communicate with leadership as needed.
• Ability to manage outside counsel/consultant relationship.
• High personal and professional integrity and the ability to establish personal credibility within the department and organization 
• Comfort working in a fast-paced, evolving environment with high expectations for excellence. 

KFC Corporation, based in Louisville, Kentucky, is one of the few brands in America that can boast about having a rich, 60-year history of success and innovation. In fact, KFC is the world's most popular chicken restaurant chain and a division of Yum! Brands, the world’s largest restaurant company.
 
Yum! Brands, Inc., based in Louisville, Kentucky, has over 45,000 restaurants in more than 135 countries and territories and is one of the Aon Hewitt Top Companies for Leaders in North America. In 2018, Yum! Brands was recognized as part of the inaugural Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index. The company’s restaurant brands – KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell – are global leaders of the chicken, pizza and Mexican-style food categories. 
 
More important than our size is our commitment to breakthrough innovation and the success of our employees. We're proud of the unique culture we've built, one where everyone can be their best self, make a difference and have fun! We believe in our people, trust in their positive intentions, encourage ideas from everyone, and have actively developed a workforce that is diverse in style and background.