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Global Procurement Category Lead – Restaurant Indirects
Location
United Kingdom
Posted
2 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Global Procurement Category Lead – Restaurant Indirects
Yum! Center for Global Franchise Excellence
• Develop, align stakeholders around, and execute multi-year global category strategies that deliver commercial value, operational excellence, risk mitigation, sustainability, and innovation. • Lead complex, multi-country sourcing initiatives and collaborate with regional teams and franchisees to drive adoption and realise benefits. • Conduct high-value negotiations with strategic suppliers to secure optimal commercial outcomes, service performance, operational resilience, and risk reduction. • Monitor global market dynamics, supplier capabilities, inflationary pressures, innovation trends, sustainability developments, and emerging risks across the Restaurant Indirects portfolio. • Influence senior stakeholders across Global Operations, Development, Finance, Brand Leadership, Supply Chain, and Franchisee organisations to align sourcing strategies with business priorities. • Build executive-level relationships with strategic suppliers and represent Yum! Brands in key commercial negotiations, supplier forums, and industry engagements. • Support the implementation of sourcing strategies across markets through effective governance, supplier playbooks, communication plans, and adoption support. • Foster cross-functional collaboration to ensure category strategies align with brand standards, restaurant development plans, facilities requirements, and sustainability objectives. • Drive year-on-year value creation through strategic sourcing, supplier performance improvement, specification optimisation, demand management, and innovation. • Operate effectively in a fast-paced and evolving environment, proactively identifying opportunities and solving complex business challenges. • Manage category risks and ensure appropriate mitigation strategies, supplier resilience plans, compliance requirements, and business continuity measures are in place. • Support franchisee engagement and alignment to global and regional sourcing programmes where applicable.
Job Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, category management, supply chain, or a related commercial discipline, including significant exposure to global or multi-market environments.
- 5+ years of experience in strategic category management, ideally across restaurant indirects, facilities management, construction services, utilities, sanitation, waste management, MRO, or related operational services.
- Proven success managing complex, multi-market supplier portfolios and sourcing programmes across indirect spend categories.
- Strong understanding of restaurant development, facilities operations, service delivery models, supplier governance, and franchise business environments.
- Deep expertise in strategic sourcing, category strategy development, supplier relationship management, contract negotiation, and category lifecycle management.
- Demonstrated experience negotiating complex regional or global agreements and implementing supplier performance frameworks.
- Strong analytical and commercial acumen with the ability to interpret data, financial models, supplier proposals, cost drivers, and market intelligence to support decision-making.
- Experience applying total cost of ownership (TCO), should-cost modelling, value engineering, and other value optimisation methodologies.
- Demonstrated ability to lead strategically within complex, matrixed, and ambiguous global organisations while balancing competing stakeholder priorities and delivering measurable outcomes.
- Experience leading cross-functional initiatives and influencing stakeholders without direct authority across international markets.
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and presentation skills, with the ability to influence audiences at all organisational levels.
- Resilience, adaptability, and sound judgement when navigating ambiguity and change.
- High levels of integrity and commitment to compliance, ethical sourcing, supplier accountability, and responsible business practices.
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