Supply Manager
Yum! Brands, Inc., and its subsidiaries franchise or operate more than 44,000 restaurants in 151 countries and territories under its iconic brands — KFC, Taco Bell and Habit Burger & Grill. KFC and Taco Bell are global leaders in the chicken and Mexican-inspired food categories, respectively. Habit is a fast-casual concept known for fresh, cooked-to-order food. Fueled by Yum!’s Recipe for Good Growth and its Raising the B.A.R priorities, Yum! combines the strength of its global brands, franchise system, scale and leading digital and technology capabilities to drive growth, create long-term value, and build the world’s most loved, trusted and connected restaurant brands.
What makes Yum! a great place to work? It's our people. We invest in people capability so that our global workforce can make the most of their careers. With ongoing opportunities for personal and professional success, we've built a culture that rewards and recognizes great effort while providing the flexibility that is so important to all of us.
This role requires you to lead supply chain planning and optimisation across applicable Yum! Brands in BU Africa, ensuring reliable ingredient flow, effective inventory policies, optimal network capacity and strong cost-to-serve performance. The role integrates S&OP and planning processes across brands, strengthens supplier and third-party partnerships, advances digitisation, and develops a high-performing regional supply team.
Responsibilities:
Lead supply chain planning and optimization
•Lead supply chain planning and optimization across Africa, including stock policy management and network capacity planning.
•Plan ingredient inventory flow in line with demand forecasts, working-capital targets and budget constraints within the third-party logistics commercial model.
•Lead tactical and strategic supplier-capacity planning to support forecasts, least-cost sourcing, capacity utilisation and future product growth.
•Maintain clear supply plans, inventory policies and performance routines that balance service, risk and cost.
Strengthen reliability, capacity and contingency planning
•Collaborate with the supply chain team, third-party logistics partners and franchise partners to review supplier capacity and identify supply opportunities.
•Work with third-party logistics partners to deliver high reliability at the best sustainable cost to serve.
•Develop, implement and maintain a supply contingency matrix that mitigates inventory-policy and capacity risks.
•Monitor supply constraints and coordinate timely mitigation actions with internal and external partners
Integrate cross-brand S&OP and planning
•Lead the seamless integration of supply chain planning and S&OP processes across all applicable Yum! Brands in BU Africa.
•Align demand, supply, inventory, capacity and commercial assumptions with brand and functional stakeholders.
•Provide clear visibility of supply risks, trade-offs and decisions to regional and global leadership teams.
•Establish governance, measures and review routines that improve planning discipline and execution.
•Ensure planning practices and partner performance comply with relevant policies, standards and contractual requirements.
Advance supply chain digitization and continuous improvement
•Develop a supply chain digitization strategy that enables end-to-end automation of S&OP and planning processes.
•Simplify and improve planning workflows, data visibility and decision-making to increase functional efficiency.
•Use performance insights to identify improvement opportunities across service, inventory, capacity and cost.
Lead people and partnerships
•Lead, coach and develop the Supply Network Managers, Demand Planning Manager and Supply Chain Analyst.
•Build strong partnerships with brand functions, regional and global supply chain teams, franchise partners, suppliers, third-party logistics providers and consultants.
•Foster an inclusive, collaborative and high-performance culture that challenges the status quo and delivers enterprise-wide change.
Education:
•Minimum bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Business, Logistics, Supply Chain Management or a related discipline.
•Additional qualifications in supply chain, logistics or project management are advantageous.
Experience:
•Minimum 10 years’ experience in senior supply chain roles, including supply chain planning and logistics management.
•End-to-end supply chain knowledge with substantial experience in logistics, planning, inventory policy, S&OP and supplier-capacity management.
•Demonstrated experience leading enterprise-wide strategic change and managing teams across multiple countries.
•Food-industry or related-sector experience is preferred.
Knowledge and Skills:
•Expertise in supply chain planning, inventory optimization, network capacity planning and cost-to-serve management.
•Ability to translate demand forecasts and commercial targets into practical inventory, capacity and supply plans.
•Strong understanding of S&OP, third-party logistics models, supplier performance, contingency planning and working-capital management.
•Proven ability to develop and execute digital transformation and process-improvement strategies.
•Strong leadership and coaching capability, with the confidence to challenge the status quo and drive change.
•Excellent communication, partnership and influencing skills across senior internal and external stakeholders in a global organisation.
•Ability to work effectively across brands, functions, markets and cultures while managing competing priorities. Normal working conditions apply in accordance with Yum! Brands policy.