What You’ll Be Serving Up
You will play a critical role in ensuring the smooth and efficient operation of KFC’s Legal Department by facilitating key legal processes, coordinating compliance initiatives, and supporting business-critical legal functions. Your mission will be to drive operational efficiency and enhance cross-functional collaboration by providing administrative assistance, streamlining processes, and managing key requirements.
Here’s How You’ll Spice Things Up
- Strengthen legal efficiency by drafting, reviewing, and managing contracts, agreements, and legal documents while ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.
- Streamline legal processes by supporting litigation hold management, responding to attorney representation letters, and overseeing franchisee tender letters.
- Optimize day-to-day operations in the Legal function by managing vendor relationships, tracking budgets, reviewing invoices through Legal Tracker, and preparing budget reports to ensure cost efficiency.
- Enable effective Legal support by overseeing the implementation and maintenance of legal technology, tools, and subscriptions.
- Uphold compliance in the organization and across franchisees by maintaining, organizing, and managing legal records, franchise files, and case documentation.
- Protect business integrity by overseeing confidentiality protocols, preserving trade secrets, and supporting risk management processes.
- Streamline legal compliance efforts by tracking regulatory requirements, including bar and CLE compliance, and maintaining records for ongoing adherence.
- Improve legal team effectiveness by tracking and reporting Legal Department KPIs, preparing insights, and analyzing data to drive informed decision-making.
- Upskill your team members and organizational partners by coordinating and facilitating legal education programs, cross-functional training sessions, and franchisee legal support initiatives.
- Support franchise health and system growth by gathering and organizing information for Franchise Disclosure Documents and collaborating with stakeholders on franchisee agreements.
Education/Certifications
What You Bring to the Table:
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited 4-year university.
Experience
- 2+ years of experience in corporate administrative roles with a Bachelor’s, no experience required with a Master’s.
- Prior experience in a legal setting as a paralegal or legal administrative assistant preferred.
- Strong team player that contributes to a positive and productive team environment; able to build strong relationships with teammates and stakeholders to deliver on day-to-day mission.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to present effectively.
- Strong analytical skills to gather, analyze, and interpret data.
- Strong organizational skills to manage workload and schedules effectively.
- Relentless in the pursuit of excellence and maintaining high standards.
- Resourceful and adaptive in ambiguous situations with a proven ability to operate “in the grey.”
- Resilient in the face of obstacles and persistent in driving towards results.
- Thrive in a collaborative environment.
What’s In It For You
- Gain invaluable legal operations experience by supporting a world-class legal team in managing contracts, compliance, and risk mitigation for a leading global brand.
- Expand your influence by working closely with cross-functional teams, franchisees, and external legal partners to enhance business-critical legal functions.
- Develop expertise in legal strategy by managing key processes related to contracts, litigation, franchise compliance, and regulatory adherence.
- Be part of a high-impact team that plays a critical role in protecting the company, ensuring regulatory compliance, and driving business success.
KFC Corporation, based in Louisville, Kentucky, is one of the few brands in America that can boast about having a rich, 60-year history of success and innovation. In fact, KFC is the world's most popular chicken restaurant chain and a division of Yum! Brands, the world’s largest restaurant company.
Yum! Brands, Inc., based in Louisville, Kentucky, has over 45,000 restaurants in more than 135 countries and territories and is one of the Aon Hewitt Top Companies for Leaders in North America. In 2018, Yum! Brands was recognized as part of the inaugural Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index. The company’s restaurant brands – KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell – are global leaders of the chicken, pizza and Mexican-style food categories.
More important than our size is our commitment to breakthrough innovation and the success of our employees. We're proud of the unique culture we've built, one where everyone can be their best self, make a difference and have fun! We believe in our people, trust in their positive intentions, encourage ideas from everyone, and have actively developed a workforce that is diverse in style and background.
