As a Principal Advanced Analytics Portfolio Lead, you lead the work to successfully scope, develop, launch and integrate into the business a substantial portfolio of advanced analytics products stewarded by the Advanced Analytics (AA) team within Enterprise Data & Analytics (ED&A). You will own the development of the vision and strategy for the products within this portfolio, plan for and lead their successful execution, and act as the primary representative of this portfolio to the business. This requires a person who has an entrepreneurial spirit and agile mindset with the enthusiasm and ability to develop trusted relationships and influence leaders and colleagues across the enterprise, including IT. The role requires a self-starter who can work under broad direction, capable of developing a point of view and selling the "art of the possible." Strong consultative and communication skills are key to success in this role and the ability to translate, interpret, visualize, and share outcomes to people at all levels of data literacy. It also requires strong agile project management skills. Our Flexible Future model offers a healthy mix of working in person and virtually, strengthening key elements of the Chick-fil-A culture by fostering collaboration and community.
 Our Flexible Future model offers a healthy mix of working in person and virtually, strengthening key elements of the Chick-fil-A culture by fostering collaboration and community.
The Employee Relations Manager will serve as the leader of the Employee Relations Investigation Team. The Employee Relations Manager will oversee the assignment, management, and direction of Employee Relations investigations. This role is responsible for directing the work of Employee Relations Advisors to mitigate risk and develop solutions to complex talent matters while serving as an ambassador for a civil work environment for Staff. In conjunction with senior leaders in Talent, this leader will influence the implementation of strategies to mitigate risk and protect the enterprise's culture.
Our Flexible Future model offers a healthy mix of working in person and virtually, strengthening key elements of the Chick-fil-A culture by fostering collaboration and community.
As a Principal Data Scientist, you will be responsible for leading and executing the most technically complex data science project work in support of multiple disciplines and lines of business within Restaurant Development. The person in this role will work as part of a larger, cross-functional, full-stack execution team charged with designing, building, and deploying, and monitoring advanced analytics products and models for Restaurant Development (RD).
This individual will also serve to set the long-term vision and strategy for advanced analytics capabilities for Restaurant Development.
The Principal Data Scientist will leverage expert exploratory data analysis skills to analyze and integrate a wide range of data in preparation for then applying or developing any needed methods, models, algorithms, and/or simulations to the most complex business or technical problems. They must be able to quickly learn new subject-matter in support of a specific project or task. They will also typically be expected to develop and demonstrate a high level of proficiency in multiple skill specializations across data science sub-disciplines (like causal inference, forecasting, simulation, optimization, machine learning, or deep learning, geospatial).
Our Principal Data Scientists typically work with full decision-making latitude for action or decisions on specific projects, solutions, or technical issues related to their work. They may lead the work of more junior data scientists and of 3rd party contingent or contract resources. They may also represent Restaurant Development in internal and external conversations.
Successful candidates for this role must have very strong analytical and research skills, a deep understanding of statistics and statistical modeling, a strong understanding of modern machine learning and its mathematical underpinnings, and they must have very strong programming skills with SQL, and R, Python. Additionally, candidates will need to understand geospatial analysis and tooling. They will need to be fast learners with a keen eye for detail, systems thinking, and process design. They must be team players who work steadfastly to create impactful change. This is a professional track role.
Our Flexible Future model offers a healthy mix of working in person and virtually, strengthening key elements of the Chick-fil-A culture by fostering collaboration and community.
We are seeking a Principal Team Leader, Cybersecurity, to establish a cybersecurity program, influence technical leaders across the organization, and lead a team of highly experienced cybersecurity practitioners as they design and implement new preventative cybersecurity solutions to support Chick-fil-A's vertical business lines and international restaurants (entities). As the leader of the team, you will have the opportunity to partner with the Digital Transformation and Technology (DTT) Security team to lead and tailor the security strategy for these entities, advise on best practices, coordinate remediations to cybersecurity requirements and requests, and ensure the overall security posture of solutions provided by DTT Entity Technology Solutions (ETS).
This role is based in Atlanta, GA. For candidates that do not live in the Atlanta Metropolitan area, Chick-fil-A offers a full relocation policy.
Our Flexible Future model offers a healthy mix of working in person and virtually, strengthening key elements of the Chick-fil-A culture by fostering collaboration and community.
This position is responsible for developing comprehensive, location-based market plans that drive strategic and tactical growth priorities across Regions/Area Support Teams (“ASTs”). The role includes working in close collaboration with partners across the business in order to influence and drive the most effective strategic location solutions (new site selection, existing restaurant asset strategy, cross-platform) that will best support our Owner/Operators and the communities they serve. The position requires ownership and communication of comprehensive local, regional, and national strategic plans, enabling Chick-fil-A to make the best decisions possible for short and long-term restaurant growth. This role will help lead and influence through the following capabilities: market expertise (local knowledge, context, perspective), growth strategy ownership, data interpretation (details + big-picture thinking), strategic-level guidance for larger bodies of work (including enterprise-level strategic bets), objective insights and recommendations, competitive intelligence, and portfolio management (perspective on broader network strategy and financial metrics).
Our Flexible Future model offers a healthy mix of working in person and virtually, strengthening key elements of the Chick-fil-A culture by fostering collaboration and community.
The National Alignment team was established to partner with ER Real Estate and Strategic Reinvestment to support the development and construction of major capital investments at existing restaurants. The Principal Program Lead role will be responsible for assessing, planning, and implementing program changes as well as establishing efficiencies for the entire program. They will require a “can do” “get it done” attitude with the ability to bring others along in the process. This person will contribute innovative thinking and imagine future needs.
Our Flexible Future model offers a healthy mix of working in person and virtually, strengthening key elements of the Chick-fil-A culture by fostering collaboration and community.
The Principal Team Leader, Regulatory Compliance and Risk Assessment & Mitigation for Restaurant Food Safety will lead a team of food safety professionals to implement strategy, design, and execution of all work related to food safety regulatory compliance. The FDA Food Code is updated bi-annually and becomes the framework that each state uses to create their own code. Individual municipalities also have the latitude to make changes to the state level code. The Restaurant Food Safety, Regulatory Compliance team has the resposability for staying current with Food Code at all three levels to ensure all restaurant procudures, equipment/small wares, and restaurant design are in compliance in every city we conduct business. This team has the same responsibility for international restaurants as well. The Principle Team Leader for this area of the business must work with tremendous autonomy as they are the face of CFA Inc. and Operators externally with regulatory agencies. They are also the face of Restaurant Food Safety internally as we work with Restaurant Design, Restaurant Experience (Menu, Packaging, Production Design), Supply Chain, Training, and Legal. They provide sound council to upper leadership in regulatory matters and crisis situations (outbreaks, natural disasters, boil water bans, etc.). This role also has the responsibility for conducting food safety risk assessment for the entire business which defines and quantifies food safety risks. This assessment sets the priority for the entire Restaurant Food Safety team.
Our Flexible Future model offers a healthy mix of working in person and virtually, strengthening key elements of the Chick-fil-A culture by fostering collaboration and community.
Chick-fil-A is seeking a Menu Sr. Project Consultant to support and lead menu, team member simplification and equipment projects from initialization through launch. This individual must be a skilled communicator, display cross functional influence and leadership skills, and excel at project and process management. Projects will consist of new product development, menu simplification, new equipment, ingredients and procedural modifications to existing products.
The Sr. Project Consultant will support the Category Leaders on complex projects, as well as lead individual projects with guidance from the Category Leaders and Team Director. This person must be able to manage multiple projects simultaneously and work closely with cross-functional partners to ensure timelines and key deliverables are met.
This individual requires a high-level of self-direction and a proactive mindset that can provide innovative solutions to drive business growth. This individual must be a skilled communicator, lead challenging and tense conversations with grace and authenticity, and have exceptional project management and facilitation skills.
Our Flexible Future model offers a healthy mix of working in person and virtually, strengthening key elements of the Chick-fil-A culture by fostering collaboration and community.
Senior Team Leaders on the Restaurant Financial Data & Systems team are responsible for recommending strategic direction and implementing change with Restaurant Operators, cross-functional staff teams and external vendors. They represent systems and data with significant scope and complexity based on the number of users, size of budget or complexity of connected processes. They may also select, lead, and negotiate with outside partners. They usually manage more than one complex or significant project and/or system at a time, from development of business case to execution and monitoring post-rollout. They may also recommend and implement strategic business changes to system strategy (build/buy, multi-vendor portfolio, addressing vendor issues) and/or data infrastructure strategy. Planning and project management across cross-functional teams are key. This role involves a combination of people leadership, cross-functional influence, strategic planning and project leadership, and a commitment to know and improve the data and systems that the team works with.
The individual in this role will have responsibility for Product Management as a practice within the RFD&S team and several key Restaurant systems for US Restaurants, including scheduling, timekeeping, payroll and HR systems. With the team they lead, this individual will make strategic decisions about the strategy and roadmap for these systems and lead teams and vendors through phases of the system lifecycle. This individual will also maintain key partnership connections with critical cross-functional teams across the business as part of established Product Management practices.
Our Flexible Future model offers a healthy mix of working in person and remotely, strengthening key elements of the Chick-fil-A culture by fostering collaboration and community.
As a Sr. Lead Data Engineer, you will be responsible for leading and executing complex data engineering project work in support of multiple products field operations analytics needs. The person in this role will work as part of a larger, cross-functional, full-stack execution team charged with designing, building, and deploying analytics products within the Field Operations Analytics portfolio under the stewardship of the ED&A Service Analytics team within Enterprise Data & Analytics (ED&A).
Sr. Lead Data Engineers typically design and implement necessary data engineering on technically complex projects, focusing on developing solutions to data pipelining, data modeling, data accessibility, and/or Data Ops needs. They must be able to quickly develop mastery of the needed subject across any line of business for which they are responsible. Our Sr. Lead Data Engineers typically work with more latitude for action or decisions on projects that are more complex or cross-functional in nature. They may represent EA in external conversations and may assist with the selection or oversight of outside vendor partners. They are expected to influence the project execution of partnered IT and analyst teams.
Successful candidates for this role must have strong analytical and data modeling skills, a deep understanding of database technology and data use within analytic platforms, and they must have strong programming skills with SQL and/or Python. We expect our Sr. Lead Data Engineers to have demonstrated fluency and competency in both the technology language of IT and the analytics language of data scientists and insights analysts. They should have experience developing and implementing data models for analytic use and a moderate level of experience with cloud database architecture. They will need to be fast learners with a keen eye for detail, systems thinking, and process design. They must be team players who work steadfastly to create impactful change. This is a professional track role.
Our Flexible Future model offers a healthy mix of working in person and remotely, strengthening key elements of the Chick-fil-A culture by fostering collaboration and community.
The Sr. Lead Restaurant Safety Advisor is responsible for providing technical leadership and consultation in the field of Restaurant specific Environmental, Health and Safety. This role would serve as an advisor on Restaurant workplace safety efforts and initiatives. This role would be responsible for maintaining updated knowledge of People Safety regulations (e.g., OSHA), support compliance efforts, perform regular trend analyses to identify areas for safety intervention & oversight, and perform safety assessments and education where needed.
Our Flexible Future model offers a healthy mix of working in person and remotely, strengthening key elements of the Chick-fil-A culture by fostering collaboration and community.
The Sr. Lead Safety Advisor, Product Safety is responsible for providing Product and People Safety leadership and consultation for Chick-fil-A branded product items working collaboratively with Legal - Regulatory, Supply Chain, Marketing and Brand Strategy. This role would liaison with process owners of these departments to evaluate and advise on People Safety risks within product categories such as Kids Meal Premiums, Plush, E-Commerce/Retail, NEXT, Team Member Appreciation, Evergreen, CFA Support Center Store, Pennycake, and Future of Play, Marketing events etc.
Our Flexible Future model offers a healthy mix of working in person and remotely, strengthening key elements of the Chick-fil-A culture by fostering collaboration and community.
The Sr. Lead Product Owner – EHS and QA Compliance Systems role is responsible for testing data flows, issue resolution, configuration and technical support for Chick-fil-A Supply, Bay Center Foods, and Supply Chain Development Center. This person also partners with each area of the Business to define, document, and consult on functional and technical requirements to support daily Operations and enable future growth of each Business.
As wholly owned subsidiaries of Chick-fil-A, Inc., Chick-fil-A Supply and Bay Center Foods are food production and distribution services networks focused entirely on serving the unique needs and growing volume of Chick-fil-A restaurants.
The Chick-fil-A Supply and Bay Center Foods service networks are comprised of three components:
- Distribution Center – State-of-the-art warehouses that house supply for Chick-fil-A restaurants
- Production Distribution Center – Offsite facilities that prepare select ingredients and menu items for Chick-fil-A restaurants
- Transportation – Growing fleet of delivery vehicles that supply Chick-fil-A restaurants
The Senior Design Lead for Restaurant Design Application & Training plays a crucial role in the Design Integration team, overseeing the enhancement and maintenance of the design catalog and providing training to stakeholders in Restaurant Development and across the organization regarding the use of the catalog and any new or updated design initiatives.
With a focus on gathering constant feedback from end users, this role also assumes some design leadership responsibilities for both internal and external partners, ensuring the continued development and improvement of the restaurant design catalog. Strategic efforts are required to clarify the purpose and functionality of the catalog, aiming to create a user-friendly resource that supports stakeholders and end-users within Restaurant Development and beyond.
Collaboration with various internal partners throughout the organization is essential for developing a comprehensive training strategy for new or updated design solutions. Close collaboration with stakeholders within Restaurant Design is necessary to fully convey the design intent behind introduced design projects and ensure that a training strategy is appropriate for end users.
Our Flexible Future model offers a healthy mix of working in person and virtually, strengthening key elements of the Chick-fil-A culture by fostering collaboration and community.
The Sr. Project Lead serves a critical function on the Marketing Investment Team, overseeing the day-to-day execution of all paid national and market level media investments. The Sr. Project Lead supports both the national and market media operations required to facilitate the stewardship of Chick-fil-A’s domestic marketing investment. The Sr. Project Lead works closely with our media agency to ensure our strategies are accurately implemented and our investments optimized on a continuous basis. Working cross functionally, the Sr. Project Lead ensures our investments complement and align with other enterprise work (Brand Strategy, Marketing Consulting, Performance Marketing, Customer Relations Management, Customer and Market Insights, Digital Transformation, Customer Digital Experience, Delivery).
The successful candidate will be an enthusiastic, high-capacity contributor with 8+ years of media experience. They must have deep functional media knowledge with strong execution skills, demonstrate a high degree of accuracy and prioritized sense of urgency.
Our Flexible Future model offers a healthy mix of working in person and virtually, strengthening key elements of the Chick-fil-A culture by fostering collaboration and community.
The Production Design Group within Chick-fil-A, Inc. focuses on engineering revolutionary restaurant system solutions that Operators, Team Members, and Customers love for 3,000+ restaurants.
The Senior Lead Engineer in the Industrial & Systems Engineering group of Production Design provides Operational consulting to cross-functional stakeholders who drive new menu or packaging items and new food-production equipment, systems, and process projects from conception to implementation. This engineer is specifically tasked with developing and influencing solutions to increase the production capacity of restaurants and decrease complexity, labor, or ergonomic risk for Team Members.
This engineer needs to be skilled and confident influencing and communicating to cross-functional partners at all levels of the organization. A chief contribution will be to utilize disciplined principles of engineering analysis, problem-solving, and innovative design. Position must be able to understand current state-of-the art food-industry equipment designs and apply innovative, forward-thinking design initiative prior to the need being explicitly stated or identified.
Our Flexible Future model offers a healthy mix of working in person and virtually, strengthening key elements of the Chick-fil-A culture by fostering collaboration and community.
The Benefits, Payroll & Mobility Solutions team exists to attract, retain, and retire top talent by providing a precise, industry leading, and seamless benefits and payroll experience. We offer benefits, payroll and mobility solutions to a diverse and growing set of both domestic and international entities while influencing organizational strategy with a focus on financial discipline, ingenuity and compliance.
The Domestic Mobility Sr. Lead role will ensure compliant and effective oversight of the domestic mobility program, which ensures payroll compliance for Chick-fil-A, Inc. and related entity Staff traveling domestically. This role requires an ability to balance attention to detail alongside the broader program to identify solutions. This role will work with minimal supervision, requires effective project management skills, and should have deep knowledge and experience in state wage reporting/withholding requirements. As a Sr. Lead on the BPMS team, this individual will be responsible for complex assignments and leading large projects and programs independently.
Our Flexible Future model offers a healthy mix of working in person and remotely, strengthening key elements of the Chick-fil-A culture by fostering collaboration and community.
The Sr. Product Lead, Inventory Strategy will lead innovative activities to automate capturing and collecting restaurant inventory data. They will assist with optimizing inventory levels and defining the replenishment strategy for new and existing nodes within Chick-fil-A’s Supply Chain. This role will be responsible for setting and maintaining inventory parameters, creating or enhancing replenishment logic and algorithms, minimizing product waste while ensuring high in-stock rates, and developing key performance indicators to measure adherence to inventory parameters and their impacts on restaurant and business objectives. This role will also be responsible for advising restaurants and Chick-fil-A Field Staff on in-Restaurant Inventory Management best practices.
This role will serve as the In-Restaurant Inventory Product Owner supporting the build and rollout of the new Supply Chain back-office system, Signal. As the Inventory Product Owner, this role will be responsible for developing product requirements to improve on-hand inventory accuracy and address waste in current state inventory processes in alignment with restaurant and business objectives. The Inventory Product Owner will work with a cross-functional team to prioritize the product requirement backlog, support the development process, test functionality, and plan releases to Signal restaurants.
Additionally, this role will directly oversee the day-to-day inventory performance of pilot location concepts within the Supply Chain – quickly root causing exceptions and executing any needed changes and parameter updates to ensure smooth operations. This role will work closely with multiple cross-functional stakeholders in Distribution Center Operations and Transportation to align inventory strategy with operational constraints.
This role is a part of the PLAN value chain within Chick-fil-A’s Supply Chain organization. PLAN sits at the beginning of the Supply Chain operational flow and is responsible for ensuring the creation, setup, and maintenance of all necessary inputs to enable proper product to flow to the restaurants. These include areas such as demand and supply planning, replenishment algorithms, channel management, limited time offering buys, and distribution center and restaurant inventory management.
The purpose of the External Research & Development Team is to harness the power of an external venture network to create competitive advantage. We aim to accelerate solutions to core business challenges, support the development of alternative revenue streams beyond the core business, serve as a reliable resource for internal partners and provide real world understanding of emerging solutions/technologies. Supporting these outcomes are three key strategies: building an expansive global venture network, cultivating strong internal relationships and influencing external innovation.
With the increasing pace of change, we believe an open innovation model is needed to effectively support the enterprise; this model acknowledges one company does not have a monopoly on good ideas and actively leverages innovation from outside the company to solve challenges, seize opportunities and prevent disruption. Open innovation requires an expansive network to be successful. The Senior External Research & Development Lead is responsible for supporting our strategic approach to building our global external network. The role leads our efforts to build external relationships, expand our understanding of innovation happening across the globe, identify the most promising solutions and connect potential solutions with internal teams to accelerate the business.
Our Flexible Future model offers a healthy mix of working in person and virtually, strengthening key elements of the Chick-fil-A culture by fostering collaboration and community.
The Property Management Representative position is responsible for maintaining the value of Chick-fil-A’s real estate portfolio by evaluating and leveraging Chick-fil-A’s property and operational rights and obligations.
Areas of Expertise:
- Project Management
- Cross Functional
- Peer Collaboration
- Decision Making
- Problem Solving
- Contract Negotiations
- Relationship Management
- Risk Evaluation
Our Flexible Future model offers a healthy mix of working in person and virtually, strengthening key elements of the Chick-fil-A culture by fostering collaboration and community.
