Global Strategy Analyst

Global Strategy Analyst

This role is part of Yum! Brands' Global Strategy team within the KFC global division, one of the company's largest growth engines. The Global Strategy Team turns data into decisions that grow sales, profits, and the brand across our worldwide portfolio. As a Global Strategy Analyst, you'll lead short- to medium-term strategy projects including, but not limited to digital development, loyalty programs, and franchisee partnerships, and partner with internal customers across BMUs and global functions to size whitespace, model financials, and translate competitive insights into executive-ready recommendations that accelerate unit development, drive same-store sales, and grow digital / loyalty penetration. You are a self-starter who turns ambiguous questions into structured analysis and clear decisions.

Strategic Planning & Analysis - 45%

• Manage strategy KPI dashboards (e.g., SSSG, transactions, digital mix) and independently run recurring channel / occasion and digital-development analyses that feed quarterly leadership reviews.
• Partner with Data & Analytics to stand up and run near-real-time (daily / weekly) performance refreshes; act as day-to-day contact with internal partners to align metric definitions and shape how results are visualized and analyzed, packaging outputs into tidy workbooks and one-page readouts.
• Build clear, executive-ready narratives, including modeling, for quarterly strategy reviews, board updates, and key leadership meetings.
• Support strategic development by modeling acquisition, developing market / peer comps & precedents, and constructing defensible cases (base / upside / downside) grounded in unit economics, synergy drivers, and integration assumptions.

Competitive Intelligence - 35%

Franchisee & Portfolio Health - 20%

What You Bring to the Table :

Preferred : Prior experience with restaurant / retail consumer businesses

What's In It for You :