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Yum! Brands · 23 hours ago

Sr Business Analyst - AI Acceleration and Adoption

Plano, TX

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$99K/yr - $117K/yr

3+ years exp

Yum! Brands is seeking a Senior Analyst for AI Adoption & Automation to play a critical role in their enterprise AI transformation. This role focuses on expanding the impact of the AI Academy, driving AI readiness, and identifying automation opportunities to improve productivity and operational speed.

Food and BeverageHospitalityRestaurants

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Grow enterprise AI Adoption and champion communities that amplify usage across brands, functions, and markets

Maintain and evolve the AI Academy, ensuring development paths remain current with the rapid pace of AI advancements

Identify, evaluate, and introduce emerging AI tools and features that materially improve employee productivity

Support the design and delivery of learning content, playbooks, and enablement sessions that strengthen enterprise AI fluency

Partner with functional teams to map end-to-end workflows, uncover pain points, and identify opportunities for agent-driven automation

Translate business needs into structured requirements for Crave AI agent builds, ensuring clarity across engineering, product, and operations teams

Manage the full lifecycle of automation projects - from scoping and requirements to pilots, rollout, and iteration

Create artifacts, demos, and storytelling materials that articulate value and progress

Establish repeatable processes, templates, and best practices to scale workflow discovery and automation across the enterprise

Build strong relationships across technology, operations, learning, brand teams, and global markets

Drive alignment and decision-making through strong communication, structured thinking, and problem-solving

Serve as a trusted partner to teams adopting new AI tools, offering guidance, troubleshooting, and clarity during change

Help cultivate a culture of experimentation, continuous learning, and AI-first ways of working

Qualification

AI tools proficiencyWorkflow analysisChange managementProcess designCommunication skillsStructured thinkingTraining expertiseInterpersonal skillsProblem-solving

Required

3-5+ years in roles such as strategy, operations, AI/tech enablement, consulting, product, or change management

Ability to distill complex, ambiguous problems into clear, actionable frameworks

Ownership mindset with a track record of taking initiatives from concept to execution

Strong workflow analysis, process-design, and operational problem-solving skills

Excellent written and verbal communication, including executive-ready storytelling

Comfort with modern AI tools and a commitment to staying current on emerging technologies

Change-management and training expertise, including driving adoption, enabling users, and supporting behavioral/operational shifts

Strong interpersonal skills, with a reputation for building trust quickly and effectively

Preferred

Experience in transformation, learning & development, product operations, or AI enablement programs

Benefits

Bonus eligibility

Company

Yum! Brands

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Yum! Brands is a quick-service restaurant brand that primarily operates the likes of KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell.

Founded in 1997

Louisville, Kentucky, USA

1001-5000 employees

http://www.yum.com

H1B Sponsorship

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