Projects & Value Lead; Supply Chain

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.

• 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.

• Effective program management for agile prioritization of high impact business initiatives
• Efficient resource management to maximize 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 digitization 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

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• 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
• Fri‑Yay finishes…