Growth Director: Rest of Sub Saharan Africa

Yum! Brands
Johannesburg
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Marketing & GrowthExperience: 10+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Enterprise leadership","Influence","Negotiation","Storytelling","Executive communication"]

Drive sustainable growth across Rest of Sub Saharan Africa by enabling the RoSSA business model through disciplined financial leadership, business planning, and capital governance. Own planning, forecasting, performance reporting, and unit economics while developing investor and franchise partner propositions. Lead accelerated expansion strategy, evaluate investment proposals through the Investment Committee, and co-create the annual operating plan with cross-functional squads to move markets from insight to commitment and scale.

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Growth Director: Rest of Sub Saharan Africa

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Job Summary

Drive sustainable growth across Rest of Sub Saharan Africa by enabling the RoSSA business model through disciplined financial leadership, business planning, and capital governance. Own planning, forecasting, performance reporting, and unit economics while developing investor and franchise partner propositions. Lead accelerated expansion strategy, evaluate investment proposals through the Investment Committee, and co-create the annual operating plan with cross-functional squads to move markets from insight to commitment and scale.
Location: Johannesburg
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Marketing & Growth
Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Enable and embed the RoSSA business model by aligning financial planning, development priorities, franchisee support, governance routines, and execution disciplines across priority markets.
  • •Lead business planning, forecasting, performance reporting, and financial analysis to achieve revenue, operating profit, capital efficiency, and net new unit growth targets.
  • •Develop and govern franchisee/equity business model economics, including margin improvement, restaurant-level profitability, capital requirements, returns, and risk assumptions.
  • •Develop and execute an accelerated unit expansion strategy for Rest of Sub Saharan Africa, including market prioritisation, pipeline planning, site feasibility, and launch readiness.
  • •Form part of the Investment Committee to evaluate store, remodel, acquisition, and consolidation proposals; lead cross-functional squads and governance to move markets from insight to investment decision, partner commitment, launch, and scale.

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years’ relevant senior experience in finance, business planning, franchise development, market expansion, investment governance, corporate development, or related fields, preferably in restaurant, hospitality, retail, or consumer products.
  • •Build scalable commercial models and convert strategy into measurable execution by using scenario modelling, unit economics, ROI analysis, capital allocation, margin improvement, and performance tracking.
  • •Strong financial and commercial fluency, including business planning, forecasting, and performance reporting to support revenue, operating profit, capital efficiency, and unit growth targets.
  • •Working knowledge of franchise operating models, development pipelines, restaurant economics, market-entry requirements, and multi-country business model enablement.
  • •Create investor-ready business cases and board-level decision narratives, and demonstrate ecosystem building through franchise partner attraction, investor engagement, funder relationships, government navigation, and strategic alliances.
Experience:10+ yearsRestaurantHospitalityRetailConsumer productsFranchising
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:Enterprise leadershipInfluenceNegotiationStorytellingExecutive communication
Tech Stack:Financial modellingERPCRMMarket analyticsBI dashboardsProject trackingCollaboration platforms

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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