RESTAURANT SUPPORT CENTRE (HQ)
RESTAURANT SUPPORT CENTRE ROLES
CHANGING THE GAME.
CHANGING THE FUTURE.
Bring it.
We welcome people from all walks of life to take a seat at our table. And we’re looking for ambitious people to join our Colonel’s HQ. Based in Woking, we support our incredible restaurant teams across the UK & Ireland. So, if you’re looking for a career where you can be original, authentic, and supported to succeed, we want to hear from you.
Whether it be revolutionising the way we do our technology or creating award-winning campaigns in marketing, at our RSC you can take your career to the next level in several different areas including: Operations, Supply Chain, Legal, People & Culture, Marketing, Digital Technology and Support, Development, Finance and Corporate Affairs and Sustainability.
Fun shouldn’t be saved for Fridays. At our RSC, we bring energy, creativity, and collaboration to the table, every day. So, whether you’re looking for that Monday morning buzz, or a team that makes you feel special every day – we’ve got it all right here, waiting for you.
AVAILABLE ROLES
Development
Associate Quantity Surveyor Construction Project Manager
The Construction Team are looking for an Associate Quantity Surveyor / Construction Project Manager to be responsible for developing cost documents, value engineering & project managing new restaurants and extending/refurbishing existing sites for KFC equity and to partner & guide third party franchise businesses. The role also has potential for growth with ad hoc & roll-out projects on the equity estate as they arise.
Finance
Payroll Administrator
The Payroll Administrator role sits within a team of 5, working in a fast-paced, customer support focused environment. We work together to provide a Shared Service Centre that is efficient, effective, professional and value adding.
People & Culture
Learning & Development Manager
We aim to build heart-led, high-performing teams by investing in people, with the People Experience team driving this vision. This role focuses on designing and delivering impactful learning and development initiatives to enhance restaurant and leadership capability, while managing stakeholder relationships, tracking program effectiveness, and ensuring alignment with future business needs.
Digital & Technology
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Legal
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Marketing & Food
Senior Product Development Manager
KFC UKI is seeking a Senior Product Development Manager (12-month maternity cover) to lead EPD and NPD projects across its Core Development or New Product Development Teams. Reporting to the Head of Food & Quality, this leadership role involves managing two direct reports, driving innovation, optimizing products, and ensuring menu success through collaboration with cross-functional teams, suppliers, and franchisees.
Insights Manager
As an Insight Manager you will drive customer-centric strategies and brand performance analysis, supporting growth through data-driven insights and strategic planning. This role involves managing brand tracking, leading qualitative and quantitative research projects, and championing the customer voice across the business to identify risks and opportunities.
Channel Delivery Lead
We're seeking a passionate Delivery Channel Lead to drive the growth of our delivery services and take our famous fried chicken to the next level. Reporting to the Head of Digital Growth, you’ll own the strategy, partnerships, and performance for KFC’s delivery channels, blending strategic insight, creative thinking, and a results-driven approach to fuel our delivery success and bring our chicken to customers wherever they are.
Innovation Manager
As KFC’s Marketing Innovation Manager, you’ll lead the strategic evolution of the UK&I core menu by developing data-driven, consumer-tested product pipelines that align with growth goals. From ideation to launch, you’ll oversee the entire process, ensuring new products are on-trend, market-leading, and customer-loved through collaboration with cross-functional teams.
Corporate Affairs & Sustainability (including KFC Foundation)
KFC Youth Foundation Employability Programme Coordinator
The KFC Youth Foundation, established in 2015, focuses on empowering young people to fulfill their potential through safe spaces, mentoring, and life skills development. As part of its transition to a service delivery model, the Foundation will incorporate the Hatch employability program, which provides workshops and paid work experience for youth aged 16-25 who are not in education, training, or employment.
The Employability Programme Co-Ordinator will oversee the coordination of the Hatch program, acting as a key link between youth organizations, KFC restaurants, and other work experience providers. This includes facilitating training, managing stakeholder relationships, and ensuring smooth delivery of placements while maintaining data management, monitoring, and reporting processes. The role requires experience in managing youth-focused programs, strong organizational and relationship-building skills, and a passion for supporting young people in achieving their potential.
Supply Chain
Category Buyer - Development
KFC Europe is one of YUM’s largest Regions and significant profit contributor. It has over 1800 stores across 6 BMU’s: UK; France; Germany; Netherlands, Spain & Italy, it also includes their satellite markets, Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, Ireland, Portugal, and Switzerland. The region is expected to grow at over 150 stores per annum. This role is primarily focussed on the U.K. market and the 51 equity owned restaurants, however there is plenty of scope to develop the role to a regional position for the right candidate.
Restaurant Excellence
Food Safety Manager
As a Food Safety Manager, you will ensure the delivery of a best-in-class Food Safety strategy, maintaining high standards across safety and compliance while building the KFC UK&I brand reputation. This role involves leading food safety projects, overseeing compliance systems like HACCP, managing external relationships, and collaborating with various teams to uphold operational excellence.
Buckets of Benefits
A career with KFC offers much more than just fantastic earning potential. We value, support and reward achievement with amazing incentives and benefits. We help you to take care of your health, financially plan for the future and make day-to-day savings on the things that are important to you right now.
The good to knows
A competitive salary, pension plan (up to 11% company contribution), life assurance, private healthcare, study support and a yearly bonus at every level.
The stuff no one likes to talk about
All colleagues are covered by our life, income and critical illness insurances as well as personal accident cover for protection and peace of mind.
Flexible, hybrid working
We operate a flexible working policy: most roles are based in Woking, Surrey (24 minutes from London Waterloo) a couple of days a week. But we’re open to chatting about what you need as long as it works for you, your team and the wider business.
Keeping the balance
Lots of flexible lifestyle benefits, inclusive policies, Employee Resource Groups (or Communities of Belonging) and collectives to get involved in.
Company get togethers
We get together a few times a year to talk about the business and have a big party in the summer and at Christmas (where we give out our Bolo Awards too).
Family
Our families are important to us. From becoming a new parent where we offer enhanced leave for both parents, we have created paid leave options to support colleagues during those really important times.
Colleague Discount
If you love KFC as much as we do, you’ll received a 25% discount.
Wellbeing benefits
We want you to be your best self, so you’ll have access to lots of wellbeing initiatives and programmes, including: Finishing at 1pm every Friday (we like to call it Fri-YAY), Live well days – an additional 5 days per year to disconnect from the day-to-day,
Employment assistance programme
24/7 access to our Employee Assistance Platform for support on health, social, family, and wealth. And Sanctus 1:1 mental health coaching sessions.
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