Hybrid Regional Category Manager – LAC

at Yum! Center for Global Franchise Excellence

• Job title: Regional Category Manager – LAC
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior, Lead
• Salary: $125,200 - $147,200 per year
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Fort Lauderdale, United States

About the role

• Regional Category Manager supporting supply chain management across Latin America for Yum! Brands. Collaborating with regional stakeholders and global teams to drive sustainable value.

Responsibilities

• The Regional Category Manager (LAC) plays a key role in supporting and advancing SCM across the Latin American region.
• This position partners closely with regional stakeholders, global category teams, and franchisees to ensure category initiatives align with business priorities and drive sustainable value across the system.
• Success in this role requires strong relationship-building skills, the ability to influence across functions and cultures, and comfort operating in an environment where priorities can evolve and ambiguity exists.
• With significant opportunity to help strengthen and mature SCM, this individual will contribute to supplier strategy execution, risk management, specification optimization, and sustainability integration, while supporting long-term growth and competitive advantage across the region.

Requirements

• 8+ years’ experience in supply chain roles, ideally within food industry or related field
• 5+ years’ experience of global / regional strategic category management / procurement
• Bilingual (English/Spanish) required
• Strong leadership skills; prepared to challenge status quo and drive change
• Excellent communication and partnership skills with the ability to work effectively with internal and external partners across the global business
• Strong communications (presentation, verbal, writing) and ability to gain buy-in & influence key stakeholders at all levels in a global organization
• High level of intellectual curiosity
• Data and analysis-driven with strong Excel skills

Benefits

• Employees (and their eligible family members) may enroll in the following types of insurance coverage: medical, dental, vision, legal, and accidental death and dismemberment, as well as FSA/HSA (depending on enrolled medical plan).
• Yum! also provides short-term disability, long-term disability, and life insurance.
• Employees may enroll in our 401(k) plan.
• Yum! provides 4 weeks of vacation, paid sick leave, 10 paid holidays, a floating day off and 2 paid days for volunteer time each calendar year.