Job Description

Responsibilities:

Drives KFC Global Poultry Innovation and Technology strategy, goals, and priorities while partnering with Yum! Food safety and Quality Assurance to meet standards.
Partner with Global Poultry Product Managers or FIT/QA leaders around the world to meet current Poultry Brand Standard specifications.
Develop new poultry products to increase the KFC Core menu. i.e. new chicken fillet, chicken nuggets, 9pz cut within different weight ranges.
Supports poultry commercialization initiatives, spec review, and supply chain initiatives as guided by FIT KFC Global Sr. Manager.
Manages relationships with multiple poultry suppliers through the market counterparts.
Develop a monitor & performance system to ensure compliance with specifications and Yum QA Programs by markets. Drives follow-up and corrective action plans on all critical issues with them.
Manages specification updates ensuring all markets comply and meet product design requirements and global/local regulations.
Monitors raw material supply and demand trends to establish changes in Global specifications that can positively impact the business; assists development of contingency plans for such occurrences.
Identifies opportunities for product/process improvements through root cause and trend analysis and establishes processes to monitor suppliers performance against key metrics.
Drives “Global Poultry Colleges” to drive quality improvements for KFC ingredients and participate in Product Excellence & Taste Colleges.
Approve and validate chicken setpoints in new equipment.
Lead and support team in Global Food demos.

Minimum Requirements:

Education/Certifications – Bachelor of Science in Poultry Science, Food Science, or related scientific field. M.S./Ph.D. Preferred.
10 years of food industry experience in poultry QA, Production, Processing and/or R&D minimum 3 years of supervisory/management experience
Exceptional leadership and interpersonal skills.
Must be able to define global strategies, lead a cross-functional team by building alliances and becoming a team player and guide poultry suppliers.
Must be able to anticipate and identify potential challenges and recommend courses of action to resolve them.
Must be able to create and present material in a composed and self-assured manner
Demonstrated success in talent management and assessment
Exceptional product management experience, application of principles, practices, and procedures within area of specialization
Willing to travel up to 40%
Ability to plan, prioritize, lead and execute multiple projects within timelines and budgets
Must demonstrate sound judgment and exceptional reasoning skills

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.