Sr Business Analyst - AI Acceleration & Adoption

Sr Business Analyst - AI Acceleration & Adoption

As a highly structured thinker and influential collaborator, you will help scale AI literacy, champion new tools and capabilities, and guide end-to-end automation initiatives that improve productivity, decision quality, and operational speed. This role operates with high autonomy, works across diverse stakeholders, and delivers outcomes that meaningfully shape Yum’s AI maturity.

• Grow enterprise AI Adoption and champion communities that amplify usage across brands, functions, and markets
• Maintain and evolve the AI Academy, ensuring development paths remain current with the rapid pace of AI advancements
• Identify, evaluate, and introduce emerging AI tools and features that materially improve employee productivity
• Support the design and delivery of learning content, playbooks, and enablement sessions that strengthen enterprise AI fluency

• Partner with functional teams to map end-to-end workflows, uncover pain points, and identify opportunities for agent-driven automation
• Translate business needs into structured requirements for Crave AI agent builds, ensuring clarity across engineering, product, and operations teams
• Manage the full lifecycle of automation projects - from scoping and requirements to pilots, rollout, and iteration
• Create artifacts, demos, and storytelling materials that articulate value and progress
• Establish repeatable processes, templates, and best practices to scale workflow discovery and automation across the enterprise

• Build strong relationships across technology, operations, learning, brand teams, and global markets
• Drive alignment and decision-making through strong communication, structured thinking, and problem-solving
• Serve as a trusted partner to teams adopting new AI tools, offering guidance, troubleshooting, and clarity during change
• Help cultivate a culture of experimentation, continuous learning, and AI-first ways of working

• 3–5+ years in roles such as strategy, operations, AI/tech enablement, consulting, product, or change management
• Ability to distill complex, ambiguous problems into clear, actionable frameworks
• Ownership mindset with a track record of taking initiatives from concept to execution
• Strong workflow analysis, process-design, and operational problem-solving skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including executive-ready storytelling
• Comfort with modern AI tools and a commitment to staying current on emerging technologies
• Change-management and training expertise, including driving adoption, enabling users, and supporting behavioral/operational shifts

Strong interpersonal skills, with a reputation for building trust quickly and effectively

• Experience in transformation, learning & development, product operations, or AI enablement programs.

Salary Range: $99,200 - $116,700 annually + bonus eligibility.
This is the expected salary range for this position. Ultimately, in determining pay, we ll consider the successful candidate’s location, experience, and other job-related factors.

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