Program Manager, Consumer Innovation & Commercialization

Taco Bell was born and raised in California and has been around since 1962. We went from selling everyone’s favorite Crunchy Tacos on the West Coast to a global brand with 7,500+ restaurants, 350 franchise organizations, that serve 42+ million fans each week around the globe. We’re not only the largest Mexican-inspired quick service brand (QSR) in the world, we’re also part of the biggest restaurant group in the world:
Yum! Brands.

Much of our fan love and authentic connection with our communities are rooted in being rebels with a cause. From ensuring we use high quality, sustainable ingredients to elevating restaurant technology in ways that hasn’t been done before… we will continue to be inclusive, bold, challenge the status quo and push industry boundaries.

We’re a company that celebrates and advocates for different, has bold self-expression, strives for a better future, and brings the fun while we’re  fuel our culture with real people who bring unique experiences. We inspire and enable our teams and the world to Live Más.

At Taco Bell, we’re Cultural Rebels. Want to join in on the passion-fueled fun? Learn more about the career below.

The Program Manager, Value & Digital Enterprise is a strategic leadership role within Taco Bell’s Enterprise Operations & Program Management team. This role leads the integrated Value, Digital Integration, and Loyalty portfolios, translating business strategy into coordinated cross-functional plans that deliver current-year commitments while building the future pipeline.

The Program Manager provides senior program leadership across multiple interconnected portfolios, leading through ambiguity, aligning priorities across functions, surfacing risks and trade-offs early, and ensuring leaders have the visibility and recommendations required to make timely decisions. The role partners closely with category and enterprise Team Leads and works across Marketing, Digital & Technology, Product, FIT, Operations, Finance, Insights, and other cross-functional teams to connect strategy, planning, and execution through Taco Bell’s 3

Ds Enterprise System.

This role also leads and develops two L8 Associate Program Managers, allocating program-management capacity based on business complexity, risk, and priority while building a high-performing program-management capability. Success requires a leader who can operate at both Speed 1, delivering today’s commitments, and Speed 2, planning and enabling tomorrow’s growth.

• Partner with the Value Team Lead to translate Value strategy into an integrated current- and future-year roadmap across testing, national launches, and pipeline development.
• Lead program management across the Value portfolio, connecting initiatives through Discover, Design, and Deploy and ensuring cross-functional readiness for key business milestones.
• Identify sequencing, resource, timing, and cross-functional dependencies early; develop scenarios and recommended paths when priorities, scope, or capacity conflict.
• Provide leadership visibility into portfolio health, critical milestones, decisions, risks, and readiness, ensuring issues are surfaced at the right time and level.

• Lead integrated planning across Digital Integration and Loyalty, connecting initiatives to the broader Marketing calendar, enterprise priorities, and enabling technology and operational roadmaps.
• Align business objectives and cross-functional roadmaps across Marketing, Digital & Technology, Operations, FIT, Finance, Product, and other partners to ensure coordinated delivery.
• Anticipate enterprise dependencies and readiness risks that could impact customer experience, launch timing, or…