LTO Commercialisation and Innovation Lead

Yum! Brands
United Kingdom
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Administration & Executive AssistanceExperience: 6+ yearsSkills: ["Project management","Stakeholder management","Risk management","Supplier management","Escalation"]

Own the procurement and supply chain link between innovation calendars, LTO plans, and brand commercialisation priorities across Europe for KFC and Taco Bell. Coordinate cross-functional teams and suppliers to define early supply requirements, launch supplier briefs, and build readiness plans with guardrails for quality, food safety, sustainability, cost, and capacity. Track performance, escalate blockers, and translate lessons into faster, more reliable launches.

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LTO Commercialisation and Innovation Lead

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Job Summary

Own the procurement and supply chain link between innovation calendars, LTO plans, and brand commercialisation priorities across Europe for KFC and Taco Bell. Coordinate cross-functional teams and suppliers to define early supply requirements, launch supplier briefs, and build readiness plans with guardrails for quality, food safety, sustainability, cost, and capacity. Track performance, escalate blockers, and translate lessons into faster, more reliable launches.
Location: United Kingdom
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Coordinate supply requirements across innovation calendars, LTO plans, and brand commercialisation priorities.
  • •Launch supplier briefs and run supplier engagement forums to define ingredients, packaging, and components with clear quality, food safety, sustainability, cost, and capacity guardrails.
  • •Build launch readiness plans, risk trackers, decision logs, and escalation routes to support reliable market execution.
  • •Secure sourcing routes, pricing, MOQs, lead times, alternative suppliers, and continuity plans for LTO components with category leads.
  • •Track commercial and operational performance of launches, capture lessons, and support portfolio prioritisation by making supply chain complexity, cost, and risk visible.
Travel: Low travel

Key Requirements

  • •6+ years' experience in procurement, supply chain, food commercialisation, NPD, innovation, category management, or project delivery.
  • •Experience supporting food, packaging, or product launches in QSR, foodservice, FMCG, retail, or manufacturing environments.
  • •Strong project management skills to manage timelines, dependencies, actions, and cross-functional decisions.
  • •Good understanding of supplier briefing, costing, capacity, food safety, quality, and launch readiness requirements.
  • •Excellent stakeholder management across brand, market, supplier, operations, finance, and technical teams.
Experience:6+ yearsFoodProcurementQSRFMCGFoodservice
Skills:Project managementStakeholder managementRisk managementSupplier managementEscalation
Languages:English

Company Brief

Yum! Brands
Yum! Brands is a global quick-service restaurant company that develops, franchises and operates KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and Habit Burger & Grill, serving tens of thousands of restaurants across more than 150 countries with digital and franchise-led growth strategies.
Industry: Restaurants & Food Service
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Louisville, United States
Founded: 1997
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