Yum Restaurant Services Group ("Yum! Brands")is instituting a COVID-19 vaccination mandate for health and safety reasons. Effective January 3, 2022, YRSG requires that corporate employees are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of employment, subject to reasonable accommodation as required by law.​​​​​​

Yum! Brands is seeking a Director, Equity, Inclusion & Belongingwho will champion, promote, and guide the Company’s EIB strategy and initiatives across our Yum! Corp. employee group and Louisville campus. The position will report to the Chief Equity & Inclusion Officer and work closely with the Yum Chief People Officer and larger HR Team. This role is integral to the company, our culture, and the experience of each of our employees every day.

We have leadership and a workforce ready to continue the progress we have begun on our Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging journey and are looking for an influential and effective leader to continue the focus and guide our energy. We are seeking someone with a passion for building a diverse workforce, an inclusive culture, and a business that resonates with a multicultural consumer base. The ideal leader possesses proven leadership skills and bias for positive action needed to continually improve an organization from varying vantage points.

This person will continue to build on the established vison for equity, inclusion and belonging and architect and execute programs that advance the company towards this vision. This person will partner with leadership to ensure this vision continues to be operationalized into a sustainable and measurable working plan that translates into organizational processes, decision-making, and delivers collective value to the employee, franchisee, consumer, and community experiences.

This person will be responsible for leading the following, areas of focus (note: this list is not exhaustive):

Yum! Corporate EI&B:

• Address barriers in the employee experience and reimagine structures, systems, and processes to ensure we fully realize our vision of becoming a representative, equitable and inclusive organization.
• Influence Franchisee system on equity and inclusivity educations, strategies, programs, and practices.
• Build on the foundation of our short-term commitments and partner with HR to build a strategy to infuse diverse talent at every level in the organization. Could we list some high-level examples of the strategy they’ll be contributing to?
• Partner with HR team to identify barriers in our current attraction & selection processes and infuse diversity & equity efforts to ensure a diverse and equitable workforce aligned to our strategy.
• Partner with Brands and EIB team to ensure effective leadership, development, and coordination of our Employee Resource Groups, ensuring a positive impact and effectiveness across the organization and culture.
• Along with our CPO, lead the Advisory Council—an group of diverse associates partnering with leadership to explore issues in our business, culture and community.
• Promote and partner with training team and HRBPs to develop programs to enhance employee understanding on equity and inclusion issues.
• Own the metrics for measuring the effectiveness of corporate equity, inclusion, and belonging initiatives by partnering with data support to prepare quarterly reports with insights and recommendations for the senior leadership team, as well as the annual report we proudly publish internally and externally.
• Partner with HR and Senior leaders across corporate functions to develop organization-specific plans for advancing EIB goals relative to the challenges and opportunities faced by each function. Examples include, ad campaigns, site locations, and franchise recruitment.
• Partner with the Communications team to ensure maximum awareness and effectiveness of Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging initiatives.

External & Community Partnerships:

• Influence and partner with outside organizations to help to support our strategy and push beyond “best practices” and create ground-breaking thought-leadership and implementation of practices to support our future talent requirements.
• Ownership of global legislation in the field, partnering with our Employment Law team to ensure current and applicable legislation is applied to programs, tracking, data collection and practices embedded in our programs.
• Represent Yum! in public speaking engagements in our local communities both internally and externally.

Demonstrated Capability and/or Experience:

• Excellent command of contemporary equity, inclusion and belonging concepts and issues (e.g., recruitment and retention, access and equity, the educational impact of diversity, policy and legal dynamics of diversity, etc.).
• Successful record of leadership and experience in advancing equity, inclusion, and belonging within a complex organization.
• Demonstrated ability to serve as an internal resource and consultant, working collaboratively with multiple stakeholders in a sensitive context often complicated by the presence of competing perspectives or interests.
• Demonstrated understanding of the elements and dynamics of organizational change. Experience leading or participating in significant organizational change.
• Understanding of affirmative action, equal employment opportunity, compliance and anti-discrimination laws and regulations.
• Formal coursework or training in multiculturalism, intercultural communications or related topics preferred.
• Ability to research, identify and implement best practices of equity, Inclusion and Belonging
• Excellent communications skills, interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence. Demonstrated ability to cross organizational and cultural boundaries with ease, adapting language and style to the context both in person and at a distance.

Must be fully vaccinated by January 3, 2022, subject to reasonable accommodations. Proof of vaccination required.

Yum! Brands, Inc., has over 50,000 restaurants in more than 150 countries and territories, making it a leader in global retail development primarily operating the company’s brands – KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell – global leaders of the chicken, pizza and Mexican-style food categories. The Company’s family of brands also includes The Habit Burger Grill, a fast-casual restaurant concept specializing in made-to-order chargrilled burgers, sandwiches and more. In 2019, Yum! Brands was named to the Dow Jones Sustainability North America Index and in 2020, the company ranked among the top 100 Best Corporate Citizens by 3BL Media.

As the world's largest restaurant company, we have a clear and compelling mission: to build the world's most loved, trusted, and fastest-growing restaurant brands. The key and not-so-secret ingredient in our recipe for growth is our unrivaled culture and talent, which fuels our results. To that end, we're looking for talented, motivated, team-oriented individuals to join us and have the opportunity be your best, have fun, make friends, and make a positive impact.

We are excited about the future growth of our brands. In fact, as a company we are opening an average of 8 restaurants a day worldwide! This growth creates endless opportunities for professional, as well as personal growth. Customer sentiment and love for our brands is the fuel for our excitement! Taco Bell has been named one of the 10 Most Innovative Companies in the World by Fast Company. Pizza Hut delivers more pizzas than any other pizza company in the world, KFC's still uses its 75-year-old finger-lickin' good recipe, including secret herbs and spices to hand-bread its chicken every day, and the Habit Burger Grill is looking to expand its regional footprint across the country.

Check out some of our great benefits:

• 4 weeks of vacation per year plus holidays
• 2 paid days off per year to volunteer
• Onsite childcare through Bright Horizons
• Onsite dining center (yes, you can eat KFC, Taco Bell or Pizza hut every day!)
• Onsite dry cleaning, laundry services, concierge
• Onsite gym with fitness classes and personal trainer sessions
• Tuition reimbursement, education benefits and scholarship opportunities
• Discounts for life’s adventures (ex: theme parks, wireless plans, etc.)
• Generous parental leave for all new parents and adoption assistance program
• 401(k) with a 6% matching contribution from Yum! Brands with immediate vesting
• Comprehensive medical, vision and dental including prescription drug benefits and 100% preventive care
• Recognition based culture and unique, fun events year round
• Healthcare and dependent care flexible spending accounts
• Company paid life insurance
• Grow Yourself Week which is devoted to your personal devel