Job Title: Senior Manager, Legal
Job Responsibilities:
- The Senior Manager, Legal will report directly to the Chief Legal Officer for KFC Global and Pizza Hut Global, providing legal and strategic advice with a primary focus on the Center of Excellence Supply Chain Management, market roll-out of Digital & Technology initiatives, global marketing initiatives, strategic legal initiatives, and master services agreements.
- Lead negotiations of key global partnership agreements in collaboration with other functions. This includes working with major vendors across multiple service industries such as supply chain, licensing, and contracts to develop strategic alliances and execute key business initiatives successfully.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to direct the global policy and governance agenda. This involves focusing on growth strategies, governance/standards roll-outs to enhance compliance, and facilitating growth.
- Manage a senior paralegal and external consultants, including setting their priorities, measuring results, and implementing best practices to drive efficiencies across the business.
Education and Experience Information:
Education/Certifications:
- Required: Juris Doctor (.) or equivalent law degree from an accredited law school and admission to the bar in the home state.
Experience:
- Required:
- Minimum of 7+ years of experience from a top-tier law firm and/or comparable in-house experience.
- Strong leadership and strategic skills with a high degree of business acumen.
- Demonstrable success in working effectively across functions and with external parties to resolve complex business and risk management issues efficiently.
- Significant experience in drafting and negotiating commercial and corporate contracts.
- Ability to manage people, foster strong relationships with key stakeholders, executives, and external partners to establish strategic alliances, and drive business initiatives.
- Preferred:
- Knowledge of franchising, digital and technology, and supply chain agreements/processes within the Food and Beverage Industry.
- General legal background with the ability to think strategically across a multitude of issues and cross-functional initiatives.
- Hands-on legal expertise in drafting and negotiating agreements directly, with little supervision and within tight budgets and timelines.
- International work experience preferred.
- Franchising/commercial background preferred.
Salary Information:
- 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.
Company Description:
The company, KFC, is a subsidiary of **Members Only** (NYSE: YUM.), and is a global chicken restaurant brand with a rich, decades-long history of success and innovation. It was founded by Colonel Harland Sanders, who believed in doing things “the hard way” because nothing ever got done right by cutting corners. The core values of hard work, hospitality, and integrity remain central to the brand today.
While rooted in its heritage, KFC is always looking forward to the future and evolving to make it easier for customers to enjoy their chicken. Through digital innovation, KFC aims to be available everywhere, implementing a frictionless and friendly experience leveraging scalable technology stacks and standards, and accelerating rollouts via multiple channels. A new KFC restaurant opens somewhere in the world every six hours.
As KFC grows, the company is committed to doing so responsibly through commitments like the 2025 global plastic packaging goal and the KFC Harvest program, which has donated over 82 million pounds of food to local communities around the world. KFC's purpose is feeding people’s potential, whether that involves helping team members get through school, turning their passion for fried chicken into a career, or being a positive force in communities. KFC fights inequality and believes in all people. Everyone has a seat at the table: from millionaires to truck drivers, to the more than 800,000 team members, to customers around the world, KFC treats everyone like family.
KFC values the unique perspectives and backgrounds of its people, which are what make the company distinctively KFC. The company celebrates every opportunity to honor these diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
