Associate Manager – Global Direct (F&P) Category
About The Position
This highly visible global role shapes Pizza Hut’s supply chain strategy in support of a brand with more than 15,000 restaurants across over 100 markets. The role supports Pizza Hut’s growth by strengthening supplier partnerships, improving franchisee economics, increasing regional alignment, and driving sustainable competitive advantage. The Associate Manager serves as a strategic partner to supplier partners, franchisees, regional supply chain teams, and cross-functional teams. The role drives procurement excellence, supply continuity, risk management, operational resilience, and long-term value creation across a complex franchise ecosystem.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of experience in supply chain roles, ideally in the food industry or a related field.
- At least 5 years of experience in global or regional strategic category management or procurement.
- Strong leadership skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders, challenge the status quo, and drive change.
- Strong commercial and financial acumen.
- Excellent communication and partnership skills, with the ability to work effectively with internal and external partners across a global business.
- Strong presentation, verbal, and written communication skills, and the ability to gain buy-in and influence stakeholders at all levels in a global organization.
- High level of intellectual curiosity.
- Strong analytical skills, including experience with spend analytics, procurement technologies, and data-driven decision-making tools.
Responsibilities
- Drive global category management, including category strategy, supply assurance, specification alignment, capacity building, and cost savings or avoidance.
- Partner with regional supply chain teams and franchisees to drive participation, alignment, and adoption of regional and global sourcing strategies through commercial partnership, stakeholder influence, and value-based engagement.
- Ensure supply continuity and operational resilience across a multi-country supply network, proactively mitigating geopolitical, inflationary, commodity, logistics, and operational risks.
- Build supply chain management capabilities and process excellence to advance category management practices, including cost modelling, commodity intelligence, supplier relationship management, and technology enablers.
- Develop data-driven business cases that improve franchisee economics, operational efficiency, and long-term system value.
- Own strategic supplier relationships and develop new supplier partnerships to drive competitive advantage and make Pizza Hut a customer of choice. Lead negotiations and capacity and business continuity planning, and support limited-time offers and innovation.
- Drive governance, compliance, and adherence to Pizza Hut standards.
- Drive specification harmonization and optimization in collaboration with regional brand teams.
- Champion sustainability initiatives within the Pizza Hut supply chain and embed long-term ESG goals into category and sourcing strategies.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
