Global Category Leader – Potatoes

Lead Yum!'s global Potatoes category across brands to create sustainable value, strengthen supply resilience, enable brand growth and deliver competitive advantage through the scale of the Yum! system. Leverage category expertise, market insight and strategic supplier partnerships to accelerate restaurant unit economics, embed responsible sourcing, create resilience and enable brand growth through the global Potatoes category community.

- Significant Supply Chain, category management or procurement experience, with demonstrated depth in strategic category leadership across multiple markets or regions; relevant food, ingredient or commodity experience advantageous.
- Demonstrated ability to develop multi-year category strategies, make clear strategic choices, and translate them into executable programs and measurable business outcomes.
- Strong commercial, financial and analytical acumen, with experience using category economics, cost drivers, supplier economics, market/commodity intelligence and pricing mechanisms to shape decisions and create value.
- Demonstrated strategic supplier relationship management, including building senior supplier leadership engagements and using supplier capability, investment, innovation and Joint Business Planning to create value and strengthen resilience.
- Proven ability to lead through a complex global matrix, influencing senior stakeholders across Brands, Regions and functions, resolving competing priorities and creating alignment without relying on direct authority.
- Demonstrated ability to anticipate category and supply risks, use external insight and scenario thinking to inform decisions, and balance commercial value, resilience, responsible sourcing and Brand requirements.
- Strong people and digital leadership build capability through coaching and cross-market learning and uses data, analytics, digital sourcing and AI-enabled tools to improve decisions and execution.

Salary Range: $142,500 to $167,600 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.