PURPOSE OF THE JOB:This role ensures that the assigned Leadership Team member(s) and other department leadership operate efficiently and effectively by providing cross-functional administrative support in a fast-paced work environment. This key individual will manage multiple deliverables, commitments, and correspondence in support of the function’s needs and foster an overall high-performing work environment for the executive and the functional team(s).

Job Responsibilities

High-Performance Calendar Management

Manages and serves as the gate keeper for all executive calendar needs across multiple time zones and business unit partners, including global travel, global meetings, weekly meetings, and day-to-day meeting requests.
Proactively anticipates the needs of executives and takes the initiative to perform tasks with little supervision and provide innovative ideas and solutions when needed.

Departmental Needs

Routes or answers correspondence not requiring executives’ attention; analyzes situations and responds accordingly.
Coordinates team building programs, manages department meetings, and drives culture initiatives.
Supports onboarding logistics for new functional team members.
Reviews and tracks expense reports and code and track invoices.
Provides support for functional team members visiting from other markets internationally.
Sets up new local and international vendors for cost center accounts in partnership with Accounts Payable.
Supports and assists Leadership Team (LT) with outside boards as required.
Act as a trusted partner to the KFC Global LT and other KFC Global Executive Assistants

Travel Arrangements & Visas

Creates all travel arrangements, including international and domestic flights and lodging.
Obtains and oversees all visa documentation for travel in partnership with the immigration team.
Coordinates international and domestic travel agendas and provides itineraries.
Monitors and adheres to all international travel regulations when organizing travel

Working Relationships

KFC Global Leadership team
KFC Global functional team(s)
KFC business unit leaders
Other EAs across Yum’s brands and business units

Supervision Of Personnel

Knowledge And Skill Required

Education/Certifications
Preferred: Bachelor’s degree
Experience
Required:

▪ 5+ years of administrative experience with extensive knowledge of general office practices

▪ General understanding of corporate collaboration and business acumen

▪ Experience working with Global business and managing International time zones

▪ Superior software skills including Microsoft Office products and the ability to compose, type and proof a variety of letters, documents, and presentations with minimal supervision

▪ Solution-oriented mindset

▪ Flexibility, detail and results orientation, and strong follow-through skills

▪ Highly organized with the ability to perform multiple tasks and handle changing priorities successfully in a fast-paced environment

▪ High degree of integrity when dealing with confidential and sensitive information

▪ Ability to communicate effectively within all levels (both written and verbal) and excellent interpersonal and leadership skills

▪ High integrity and work ethic

▪ Excellent collaboration skills

Preferred:

▪ Prior experience supporting executive

Who is KFC?

KFC, a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE: YUM.), is a global chicken restaurant brand with a rich, decades-long history of success and innovation. It all started with one cook, Colonel Harland Sanders, who believed in doing things “the hard way,” because nothing ever got done right by cutting corners. Hard work, hospitality and integrity are still core to our brand today.

While we’re grounded in our heritage, we’re always looking forward to the future and evolving to make it easier for our customers to enjoy our chicken. Through digital innovation, our goal is to make KFC available everywhere, implementing a frictionless & friendly experience leveraging scalable technology stack and standards and accelerating rollouts via multiple channels. And we’re growing… a new KFC restaurant opens somewhere in the world every six hours.

As we grow, KFC is committed to doing so responsibly through commitments like our 2025 global plastic packaging goal and the KFC Harvest program, which to date has donated over 82 million pounds of food to our local communities around the world. Our purposes is feeding people’s potential, whether that means helping team members get through school, turn their passion for fried chicken into a career, or being a positive force in our communities. We fight inequality and believe in all people. Everyone has a seat at our table: from millionaires to truck drivers, to our more than 800,000 Team Members, to our customers around the world, KFC treats everyone like family.

Our people are what make us distinctively KFC, and we value every opportunity to celebrate the unique perspectives and backgrounds they bring to our company. To learn more about KFC Global, check out our company page here.