What You'll Be Serving Up:
The Global Talent Specialist plays a key role in driving enterprise-wide talent processes, strengthening global HR collaboration, and enabling a high-performing, development-focused culture across KFC globally. This role partners closely with Market HR teams, Centers of Excellence (COEs), and senior leaders to deliver seamless global talent processes, ensure organizational clarity, and elevate the employee experience through best-in-class talent practices.

Here's How You'll Spice Things Up:
Global Talent Processes & Planning

• Support Global PPR (People Performance Review) process by ensuring timelines are met across markets, managing communications with Chief People Officers (CPOs) & HR Leads, and consolidating all talent insights and data.
• Transform talent data into compelling narratives and strategic insights to inform leadership decision-making and workforce planning.
• Partner with global stakeholders to continuously improve the PPR experience, tools, and outcomes.

Organizational Design & Clarity

• Maintain accurate, up-to-date global organizational charts by partnering with Market teams to collect and validate changes.
• Support leadership visibility into organizational structure and talent pipelines for strategic workforce planning.

HR Partnership & Collaboration

• Serve as a key liaison between KFC Global and the Yum Center of Excellence (COEs) including L&D, TR, TA, COB, PCX.

Global Talent Council Management

• Plan, coordinate, and facilitate quarterly Global Talent Council meetings with Market CPOs and HR leaders.
• Develop meeting materials including agenda, deck templates, and consolidated market submissions.
• Capture key discussion points and follow-ups and distribute post-meeting summaries to ensure alignment and execution.

Talent Development & Leadership Onboarding

• Develop and coordinate onboarding plans for new senior leaders (L12+) joining the KFC Global team, ensuring a consistent and high-quality leadership induction experience.
• Support the design, execution, and tracking of functional mentorship programs to strengthen capability building across the organization.

HR Community Building

• Lead a Market HRBP Council to foster a strong global HR community; facilitating collaboration, capability sharing, and best-practice exchange across markets.
• Create engagement forums, toolkits, and communication channels that enhance connectivity and consistency across HR teams globally.

Change Management:

• Work closely with Yum COE leaders and KFC market HR leads to ensure change initiatives drive intended business outcomes.
• Ensure global communication and engagement strategies support change adoption.

What You Bring to the Table:

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organizational Development, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 8 years of experience in HR, Talent Management, Organizational Development, or similar roles.
• Experience supporting global HR processes or working in a matrixed, multinational environment preferred.
• Strong project management, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• High attention to detail with the ability to synthesize complex data into clear insights.
• Strong relationship-building skills and ability to influence without authority.

Key Competencies:

• Collaboration & Stakeholder Management - Partners effectively across markets and COEs.
• Strategic Thinking - Connects data, insights, and people implications to business strategy.
• Project & Process Management - Drives timelines, organizes complex inputs, and ensures high-quality delivery.
• Communication & Storytelling - Delivers clear, compelling narratives for senior audiences.
• Agility & Adaptability - Works effectively in a fast-paced, globally distributed environment.

Salary Range: $110,000 - 120,000 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.