About the Role
You'll be at the heart of shaping and improving our supply chain, leading projects that make a real impact on quality, reliability and cost. From bringing exciting new and promotional products to life, to driving our sustainability ambitions and building a more inclusive supplier network, you'll play a key role in helping us deliver better results across the entire value chain.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and coordinate supply chain projects from idea through to delivery, ensuring they create meaningful impact and are delivered on time.
- Balance quality, supply continuity and cost to achieve the best outcomes for both the business and our customers.
- Drive continuous improvement across our end-to-end supply chain, identifying smarter and more efficient ways of working.
- Support the commercialisation of new and promotional products, helping to bring innovation to market successfully.
- Champion our sustainability journey and work closely with suppliers to create a more resilient and inclusive supply base.
- Build strong relationships with internal teams and external partners, ensuring clear communication, collaboration and stakeholder buy‑in at every stage.
What Will You Spend Your Time Doing
- Effective program management for agile prioritisation of high impact business initiatives
- Efficient resource management to maximise commercial value and benefit
- Risk management across the food, pack and equipment supply base
- Provide input into overall SCM strategies and plans, including logistics, planning, projects, asset procurement/supply
- Integrate projects and initiatives to overall delivery of supply chain goals
- Cascade category‑specific inflation outlooks to key stakeholders across markets ensuring clear understanding of underlying data, drivers, and business implications
- Develop and maintain a KPI scorecard system to track the performance for projects
- Project life‑cycle management
- Drive can‑do & breakthrough mindset within project teams, to ensure teamwork across the entire stakeholder group
- Support the supply chain digitisation strategy in alignment with Yum! Global
- Support and enable the integration of various Yum! brands in Europe to deliver a commercial competitive advantage
- Ensure projects are completed on time with effective hand‑over
- Lead and coordinate improvement initiatives for supply chain processes
- Maintain good project stakeholder engagement
- Adhoc requirements
Experience
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Min 8 – 10 years supply chain related experience with a minimum of 3 years at a management level. Demonstrated understanding of the key drivers that enable responsiveness & agility in the supply chain. Strong project management with a track record of delivering high impact projects. Sound commercial and financial acumen. Ideally possess experience in formal project management.
Skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills with the ability to effectively communicate complex information to various audiences.
- Ability to think strategically and develop long‑term plans and initiatives aligned with business objectives.
- Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills with the ability to make sound and data‑driven decisions.
- Ability to effectively influence and negotiate with stakeholders at all levels.
- Proven ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, prioritise tasks, and meet deadlines.
- Ability to coach and mentor franchisees and other stakeholders.
- Strong teamwork and collaboration skills with the ability to work effectively across departments and functions.
- Ability to adapt to changing priorities and navigate ambiguity in a dynamic environment.
- A proactive and results‑oriented approach with a strong drive to achieve goals.
About You
- A genuine team player
- A self‑starter with curiosity, energy and adaptability
- Hungry to learn and thrive in a small, mighty team
- A practical problem‑solver with strong commercial instincts
- Obsessed with high standards, momentum and getting things done
- And of course… a true KFC believer
Benefits
We offer benefits that make your life that little bit easier, because we know the juggle is real.
From flexible, hybrid working to Friday early finishes and Live Well Days, we’ve created a package that supports the real you, in and out of work.
- Hybrid working from our Woking RSC (just 24 mins from London). This role is remote based but occasional visits to our RSC will be required.
- Up to 11% company pension contributions
- Friday finishes at 1pm every Friday
- 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays)
- 5 Live Well Days a year, just for you
- Bonus scheme linked to company & personal performance
- Private healthcare, Digital GP access & mental health coaching
- Enhanced parental leave and flexible return options
- Study support, income protection, life cover & more
- 25% off the chicken
KFC FOR EVERYONE
Whoever you are and wherever you’re from, KFC is a place where you can bring the real you to work.
Our promise is this: every person who applies to a role at KFC, regardless of age, background, ethnicity, gender, ability, religion or sexual orientation, will have an equal opportunity to work here. We don’t just welcome, we encourage applications from underrepresented groups from all industries.
If you’d like any additional support with your application, have a disability or condition that may affect your performance during the recruitment process, or have any other requirements — just let us know. We’ll be there to help you be the real you.
Contact Details:
Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) Recruitment Team
