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What You Will Be Serving Up: 

KFC's growth is powered by strong franchise partnerships, smart market development, and disciplined long-term strategy. The Manager, Global Franchise Growth will play a key role in shaping how KFC grows around the world by partnering with Chief Development Officers and market leaders to build growth plans, evaluate strategic opportunities, and strengthen the processes that enable scalable expansion.

This is a highly strategic, globally connected role at the intersection of franchise growth, development strategy, finance, and executive decision-making. The person in this role will help influence market expansion plans, franchise incentive structures, partnership decisions, and select M&A-related work that supports KFC's long-term growth agenda.

This role is ideal for someone who combines strong analytical horsepower with sound business judgment, executive presence, and a passion for building high-impact franchise partnerships across diverse international markets.

Here's How You Will Spice Things Up:

• Partner with Chief Development Officers and market leaders to design franchise growth plans that support KFC's ambition to be the largest global QSR 
• Review market growth strategies and translate them into clear, executive-ready recommendations for senior leadership approval 
• Lead our Franchise Policy Committee responsible for reviewing and approving franchise growth incentives and investments
• Build financial models and business cases to evaluate complex franchise incentives, development investments, and expansion scenarios 
• Travel across 150+ markets to identify best practices, strengthen relationships, and share learnings across the global system 
• Review and help assess prospective strategic franchisees, including evaluating strategic fit, growth potential, and long-term partnership value 
• Support select M&A-related work, including strategic assessment, financial analysis, and integration planning related to growth opportunities 
• Partner cross-functionally with Finance, Strategy, Legal, and market teams to align on development priorities for each of Yum's 13 BMUs. 
• Help shape strategies that accelerate KFC's global growth through strong, high-performing franchise partnerships 

What You Bring to the Table:

• Experience in strategy, banking, finance, franchising, development, consulting, or another relevant business function 
• Strong financial modeling and analytical skills, with the ability to evaluate complex business opportunities and investment decisions 
• Ability to synthesize data and ambiguity into clear recommendations and practical actions 
• Strong communication and presentation skills, including experience preparing materials for senior leaders 
• Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders in a matrixed, global organization 
• Strong partnership mindset and the ability to build credibility across markets, leaders, and franchise partners 
• Comfort operating across diverse international markets and navigating complexity with sound judgment 
• Willingness to travel globally 

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in franchising, QSR, hospitality, retail, consumer, or other multi-unit business models 
• Experience with incentive design, market planning, development strategy, or corporate growth initiatives 
• Exposure to M&A, business development, or investment analysis 
• International business experience preferred 

What's In It for You:

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Opportunity to innovate within a global brand and make a significant impact.
• Collaborative, fast-paced work environment with a focus on professional growth and development.

Salary Range: $125,000 - $135,000 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.

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. To learn more about KFC Global, check out our company page here. 

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