Paralegal, Yum! Digital & Technology
Yum! is looking for a business-oriented, bold thinker with a passion for delivering results to join our Yum! Digital & Technology (D&T) Legal Team as a Paralegal. This Paralegal will work in close collaboration across various functions and brands in the organization and, among other things, will be responsible for contract administration and document management support; contract revisions; general intake of legal matters; maintenance and management of legal and contract databases; and provision of legal support to internal stakeholders.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Work with internal legal teams and/or external legal counsel to identify potential legal and/or business risks and provide proactive solutions.
- Communicate directly with internal business stakeholders and external vendors to prepare all forms of legal documents including master service agreements, SaaS agreements, adoption agreements, statements of work, and order forms.
- Prepare and coordinate documents for execution and maintain contract database.
- Maintain and enhance cross-functional legal tracking system.
- Conduct, coordinate and/or assist with the review of consumer-facing promotional materials.
- Management of general and time-sensitive correspondence.
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree
- Minimum 3+ years of legal experience in a law firm or corporate environment
- Detail oriented with an ability to proactively manage, juggle, and prioritize multiple projects and competing deadlines and resolve critical issues in real time.
Preferred Requirements
- Experience on a digital and technology team preferred
- Familiarity with data privacy, AI and similar areas of the law
- Strong communication skills and the ability to effectively support a variety of stakeholders, both inside and outside the company.
- Team player and the ability to work with others directly and indirectly and to interrelate politely and professionally but firmly with demanding priorities and influence when needed.
- Flexibility, creativity, good judgement, enthusiasm, and diplomacy.
- Confident and dependable, with strong initiative and excellent client service skills.
- Urgency and results focus to ensure timely and appropriate response to rapidly changing situations.
Salary Range: $78,300 to $101,200 annually + bonus eligibility. This is the expected salary range for this position. Ultimately, in determining pay, we'll consider the successful candidate’s location, experience, and other job-related factors.
At Yum!, one of our core values is to Believe in ALL People. This means seeing the value in everyone and unlocking their full potential to be their best self. YUM! Brands, Inc. (including its subsidiaries Yum Restaurant Services Group, LLC (“YRSG”) and Yum Connect, LLC (“Yum Digital and Technology”)(collectively, “Yum”) is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to equity, inclusion, and belonging for all dimensions of diversity. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other protected characteristic. Yum! is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities or special needs.
The Yum! Brands story is simple. We have the four distinctive, relevant and easy global brands – KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and The Habit Burger Grill - born from the hopes and dreams, ambitions and grit of passionate entrepreneurs. And we want more of this to create our future!
As the world’s largest restaurant company we have a clear and compelling mission: to build the world’s most love, trusted and fastest-growing restaurant brands. The key and not-so-secret ingredient in our recipe for growth is our unrivaled talent and culture, which fuels our results.
We’re looking for talented, motivated, visionary and team-oriented leaders to join us as we elevate and personalize the customer experience across our 48,000 restaurants, operating in 145 countries and territories around the world!
Employees may work for a single brand and potentially grow to support all company-owned brands depending on their role. Regardless of where they work, as a company opening an average of 8 restaurants a day worldwide, the growth opportunities are endless. Taco Bell has been named 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 and KFC’s still use its 75-year-old finger lickin’ good recipe including secret herbs and spices to hand-bread its chicken every day.
Yum! and its brands have offices in Chicago, IL, Louisville KY, Irvine, CA, Plano, TX and other markets around the world. We don’t just say we are a great place to work – our commitments to the world and our employees show it. Yum! has been named to the Dow Jones Sustainability North America Index and ranked among the top 100 Best Corporate Citizens by Corporate Responsibility Magazine in addition to being named to the Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index. Our employees work in an environment where the value of “believe in all people” is lived every day, enjoying benefits including but not limited to: 4 weeks’ vacation PLUS holidays, sick leave and 2 paid days to volunteer at the cause of their choice and a dollar-for-dollar matching gift program; generous parental leave; competitive benefits including medical, dental, vision and life insurance as well as a 6% 401k match – all encompassed in Yum!’s world-famous recognition culture.
