Job Description

WELCOME TO KFC AND YUM!

WHO ARE KFC?

Colonel Harland Sanders opened the first KFC in Corbin, Kentucky in 1938. He started with one restaurant, 11 herbs and spices, and an idea. From there our incredible brand and product grew to what it is today.

KFC first came to the UK in 1965 with our first restaurant in Preston, Lancashire. Today we are a billion-pound business with over 1000 restaurants run by our 28,000 restaurant team members. Our headquarters are based at the Restaurant Support Centre (RSC) in Woking, Surrey \xe2\x80\x93 a 24-minute train from Waterloo. Of the c.1000 restaurants in the UK, 95% are owned and operated by 34 franchise partners; the remaining 5% are company owned and run.

WHO ARE \xe2\x80\x98YUM!\xe2\x80\x99?

KFC is one of the 5 brands operated by our parent company Yum! along with Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, The Habit Burger Grill and recently added Heartstyles. We are the world\xe2\x80\x99s largest restaurant group with over 52,000 restaurants across the globe.

Yum! isn\xe2\x80\x99t your average Fortune 500 company. We like to do things a little differently. From our world-famous culture of fun and recognition to our focus on your career potential.

OUR CULTURE

BREAKTHROUGH RESULTS, TEAMWORK AND RECOGNITION

We believe that our success is driven by the power of our employees working in unison with a shared set of common goals and values. We are very proud that KFC UKI is recognised as a key market not only in terms of profit and innovation but also for the talent we grow and develop for Yum!.

We invest heavily in our people and helping them drive their personal development. As part of this we give each of our managers in the business the opportunity to go through Heartstyles. Heartstyles is a tool and strategy to measure and manage culture, building people\xe2\x80\x99s self-awareness and helping them to transform their behaviours. This tool can then be used in coaching conversations you have with your team and line manager and to help build effective individual development plans.

We celebrate success every day and to us recognition is much more than just saying thank you- it is about really celebrating achievements, milestones and behaviours. One of the ways we do this is through our own personal recognition awards.

As a company we take our corporate social responsibility very seriously and encourage our employees to \xe2\x80\x98give something back\xe2\x80\x99 through companywide charity efforts.

As an equal opportunity employer, we embrace individuality and diversity. We employ irrespective of background, age, ethnicity, colour, gender, disability, sexual or religious orientation and marital status.

MORE ABOUT THE ROLE

The Junior QA Manager is part of the Product Integrity team, and more specifically part of the Food QA team.

This team is working for different markets, in Western Europe, and the Food team is supplying all Food products for these markets.

The Product Integrity team is responsible for system and processes that ensure Food Safety from Farm to Fork, protecting KFC brand, as well as driving actions in product quality.

Key to this role is the ability to control supplier operational standards over different projects to assure best in class food safety and quality products in our stores in close cooperation with our markets.

KEY JOB FUNCTIONS INCLUDE:

• Ensure Yum! Food Safety requirements are met for all products delivered, while driving consumer satisfaction through product quality.
• Ensure legal/policy are followed, and support implementation of future legislation/policies.
• Monitor supplier performance management through different KPI\xe2\x80\x99s.
• Support the category\xe2\x80\x99s strategy with the procurement team in order to deliver rationalization or operation\xe2\x80\x99s simplification.

WHAT YOU\'LL DO:

• Manage all QA and FS KPI\xe2\x80\x99s of your own categories : complaint management, audit management, specification management, cutting management.
• Manage all reporting of the above KPI\xe2\x80\x99s.
• Participate to categories meetings with supply chain team, or markets team in order to improve the categories ( some travel abroad are possible).
• Work with suppliers (some visit at factories are possible) to improve product quality or implement corrective action.
• Participate to products tastings.
• Support the Product Integrity team if any urgent support is needed potentially in other categories.

WHAT WE\xe2\x80\x99D LOVE FROM YOU

EXPERIENCE

• Experience in Food Industry.
• Strong knowledge on HACCP and GFSI guidelines.
• Strong communication and \xe2\x80\x9ctaking people with you\xe2\x80\x9d skills.
• Analytical and strategic business thinking skills.
• Strong project management skills.

LEADERSHIP BEHAVIOURS

We look for leaders in our business at all levels who embody 3 key attributes: Smart, Heart & Courage

• SMART: Leaders who\xe2\x80\xa6 foster innovation, set a clear vision, communicate powerfully with all stakeholders and drive action;
• HEART: Leaders who develop & coach people around them; know themselves, care hard about others and have fun recognising others for their efforts;
• COURAGE: Leaders who have a growth mindset, make bold decisions with conviction; collaborate authentically and challenge their own thinking.

WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU

REWARD, PROGRESSION AND LOTS OF RECOGNITION

A career with KFC offers much more than just fantastic earning potential. We reward achievement with amazing incentives and benefits, including;

• Company and performance related bonus
• Generous pension with up to 11% company contribution
• Private healthcare with the option to increase to include family cover and extra dental cover
• Annual holiday allowance starts at 25 days with the option to buy or sell up to 3 extra days per year
• After 5 years\xe2\x80\x99 service, annual holiday allowance increases to 30 days
• Study support may be available for job-related qualifications
• Competitive maternity leave and flexible return to work options
• International career opportunities across Yum!
• Pick n Mix Benefits, options include gym membership, health screening and travel insurance

KFC is also a very sociable company and we strive to incorporate our company value of fun whenever we can. Our teams regularly enjoy nights out with their colleagues- including pay day drinks, weekly netball and football matches and each year we organise a big Christmas party to celebrate the successes of the year.

About Company: We do things the right way. It isn\xe2\x80\x99t always easy, but it\xe2\x80\x99s always better. We make our chicken by hand (and we eat it with our hands too). We lead with our hearts, work hard and have fun \xe2\x80\x93 and we welcome everyone. It doesn\xe2\x80\x99t matter who you are, where you\xe2\x80\x99re from, or what your shoe size is \xe2\x80\x93 everyone\xe2\x80\x99s got a place at the Colonel\xe2\x80\x99s table.

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