KFC Hiring for Executive Assistant, Corporate Communications at Plano, TX Full Time

• Manages and serves as the gate keeper for all leader(s) calendar needs across multiple time zones and business unit partners, including global travel, global meetings, weekly meetings, and day-to-day meeting requests.
• Proactively anticipates the needs of leaders and takes the initiative to perform tasks with little supervision and provide innovative ideas and solutions when needed.
• Intentional and proactive collaboration and negotiation with others to enforce and protect leader(s) boundaries and commitments.

Internal Brand Experience And Event Management

• Lead event project/program manager for KFC Global signature events (MPM, IFC, Town Halls, Team Huddles, etc.)
• Responsible for coordination, logistics, and agenda planning including budget, bookings, contract negotiation, travel planning, vendor management, food demos, swag, recognition and communications. 

Departmental Needs

• Routes or answers correspondence not requiring executives’ attention; analyzes situations and responds accordingly.
• Coordinate teambuilding activities, manage department meetings, drive culture initiatives, and provide event planning as requested.
• Responsible for coordination, logistics, and agenda planning for multiple functional summits and conferences, both domestic and international. This includes budget, bookings, contract negotiation, travel planning, vendor management, and communications. 
• Supports onboarding logistics for new functional team members.
• Reviews and tracks expense reports and code and track invoices.
• Plays a key leadership role for company Administrative Assistants.
• Provides support for functional team members visiting from other markets internationally.
• Sets up new local and international vendors for cost center accounts in partnership with Accounts Payable.
• Supports and assists leader(s) with outside boards as required.
• Works closely with Leadership Team and others relative to Yum meetings, ensuring presentations are produced, organized, and prepared for all meetings.
• Act as a trusted partner to other KFC Global leaders and executive assistants.

Travel Arrangements & Visas

• Creates all travel arrangements, including international and domestic flights and lodging.
• Obtains and oversees all visa documentation for travel in partnership with the immigration team.
• Coordinates international and domestic travel agendas and provides itineraries. 
• Monitors and adheres to all international travel regulations when organizing travel.

Who is KFC?

KFC, a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE: YUM.), is a global chicken restaurant brand with a rich, decades-long history of success and innovation. It all started with one cook, Colonel Harland Sanders, who believed in doing things “the hard way,” because nothing ever got done right by cutting corners. Hard work, hospitality and integrity are still core to our brand today.

While we’re grounded in our heritage, we’re always looking forward to the future and evolving to make it easier for our customers to enjoy our chicken. Through digital innovation, our goal is to make KFC available everywhere, implementing a frictionless & friendly experience leveraging scalable technology stack and standards and accelerating rollouts via multiple channels. And we’re growing… a new KFC restaurant opens somewhere in the world every six hours.

As we grow, KFC is committed to doing so responsibly through commitments like our 2025 global plastic packaging goal and the KFC Harvest program, which to date has donated over 82 million pounds of food to our local communities around the world. Our purposes is feeding people’s potential, whether that means helping team members get through school, turn their passion for fried chicken into a career, or being a positive force in our communities. We fight inequality and believe in all people. Everyone has a seat at our table: from millionaires to truck drivers, to our more than 800,000 Team Members, to our customers around the world, KFC treats everyone like family.

Our people are what make us distinctively KFC, and we value every opportunity to celebrate the unique perspectives and backgrounds they bring to our company.