Description
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.
Job Description
The KFC Global Digital team is building one of the most valuable assets for the KFC Organization. It’s a brand-new data platform combining some of the key data sources across our >150 markets to drive Business Intelligence, Advanced Analytics, and numerous other use cases. The platform is built using the best-of-breed cloud-based technologies.
We are looking for a Data Product Manager to become the voice of our stakeholders around data and analytics needs. An individual in this role will help create a strategic vision for what Data & Analytics means for KFC, effectively communicate business requirements to technical teams and ensure that our products are delivered according to stakeholder expectations and perform budget planning and allocation. This is a high-visibility role within both the KFC and the Yum organizations with a high potential for career progression and growth.
Organizations Supported: KFC Global, KFC Business Market Units
Revenues: 11 Business Market Units, 27,000 Global Restaurants, $31 billion in system sales
Responsibilities
• Establish the vision and strategic plan for the KFC Data & Analytics organization
• Work closely with business stakeholders to establish project requirements and effectively communicate priorities to the technical delivery team
• Partner closely with our Solution Architecture, PMO, and Engineering Delivery teams to ensure maximum business value creation
• Partner with global and regional stakeholders to understand their objectives around every business domain including marketing, operations, and finance Participate in Solution Design Data Engineering hand-over sessions and provides continuous guidance and clarification to the engineering teams
• Work closely with Delivery Lead and Program Manager to establish and continually evolve project delivery process
Minimum Requirements
• 5 years of experience in Data Product Ownership or Management
• Experience in owning multiple simultaneous products
• Experience in budget allocation and planning for medium sized teams
• Experience in managing both internal and vendor teams and performing project resource allocation
• Strong verbal and visual communication skills
• Ability to translate complex technical terminology, concepts and issues into terms understandable to technical and non-technical teams
• Advanced knowledge of Agile and other software delivery methodologies
Benefits
• Year-round half-day Fridays
• Hybrid work environment.
• On-site campus daycare through Bright Horizons
• On-site campus fitness center
• 401(k) contribution matching up to 6%
• Comprehensive medical and dental care
• Four weeks of vacation plus paid holidays, volunteer time, and 5 sick days
• 18 weeks maternity leave/6 weeks paternity leave & family bonding time
• Potential for international travel
• Culture that is unmatched, a recognition-based culture, and more!
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.
Responsibilities
- An individual in this role will help create a strategic vision for what Data & Analytics means for KFC, effectively communicate business requirements to technical teams and ensure that our products are delivered according to stakeholder expectations and perform budget planning and allocation
- Establish the vision and strategic plan for the KFC Data & Analytics organization
- Work closely with business stakeholders to establish project requirements and effectively communicate priorities to the technical delivery team
- Partner closely with our Solution Architecture, PMO, and Engineering Delivery teams to ensure maximum business value creation
- Partner with global and regional stakeholders to understand their objectives around every business domain including marketing, operations, and finance Participate in Solution Design Data Engineering hand-over sessions and provides continuous guidance and clarification to the engineering teams
- Work closely with Delivery Lead and Program Manager to establish and continually evolve project delivery process
Qualifications
- 5 years of experience in Data Product Ownership or Management
- Experience in owning multiple simultaneous products
- Experience in budget allocation and planning for medium sized teams
- Experience in managing both internal and vendor teams and performing project resource allocation
- Strong verbal and visual communication skills
- Ability to translate complex technical terminology, concepts and issues into terms understandable to technical and non-technical teams
- Advanced knowledge of Agile and other software delivery methodologies
Educational Requirements
- High School
Benefits
- Year-round half-day Fridays
- Hybrid work environment
- On-site campus daycare through Bright Horizons
- On-site campus fitness center
- 401(k) contribution matching up to 6%
- Comprehensive medical and dental care
- Four weeks of vacation plus paid holidays, volunteer time, and 5 sick days
- 18 weeks maternity leave/6 weeks paternity leave & family bonding time
- Potential for international travel
- Culture that is unmatched, a recognition-based culture, and more!