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Product Planning Manager jobs are open across automotive, consumer electronics, manufacturing, and technology, at every level from associate to senior and director, with specializations in demand forecasting, new product introduction, and go-to-market planning. See the openings below and apply to the ones that match your experience.
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The Senior Manager, Franchise Performance plays a critical role in shaping the long-term health, profitability, and growth potential of the KFC U.S. franchise system. This role leads the development of strategies to optimize the franchisee network, strengthen franchisee performance, and position the system for sustainable growth, partnering with cross-functional teams to translate strategic priorities into action. The role also provides strategic oversight of market planning, ensuring development opportunities align with broader franchise portfolio objectives.
Franchise Portfolio Strategy & Optimization
- Lead the development of KFC U.S.’s long-term franchise portfolio strategy, defining the optimal franchisee network structure to support system health, profitability, and sustainable growth.
- Assess the existing franchisee landscape, including portfolio composition, geographic concentration, operator capabilities, financial health, and growth potential, to identify opportunities to strengthen the system.
- Develop a long-term portfolio optimization roadmap, identifying priority markets, franchisee portfolios, and opportunities for consolidation, ownership transitions, and introduction of new capital.
- Establish strategic frameworks and criteria to evaluate franchisee portfolio opportunities, balancing operator capabilities, financial performance, market potential, and development objectives.
- Develop recommendations for distressed or underperforming portfolios and hand off prioritized opportunities to Franchise & Development Finance for transaction assessment, structuring, and execution.
- Collaborate with Finance and Development to inform incentive structures and investment strategies that encourage franchisee growth, portfolio transformation, and new restaurant development.
- Monitor the impact of portfolio initiatives on restaurant performance, franchisee profitability, royalty generation, and long-term growth capacity to refine the strategy.
Franchisee Performance & Profitability
- Lead strategies to improve franchisee profitability, financial health, and overall system performance.
- Establish a franchisee performance management framework, including KPIs, scorecards, and analytical tools to assess operator performance and identify improvement opportunities.
- Analyze financial and operational results to identify systemic challenges, performance gaps, and opportunities to strengthen restaurant-level economics.
- Partner with Franchise Operations, Finance, and other teams to develop targeted improvement strategies for underperforming franchisees.
- Support franchisee quarterly business reviews and senior leadership engagement forums with actionable performance insights.
- Develop reporting capabilities that give leadership a clear view of franchise system health, emerging risks, and performance opportunities.
Market Planning & Growth Strategy
- Provide strategic oversight of KFC U.S. market planning, ensuring market plans align with franchise portfolio objectives and system growth priorities.
- Guide market-level identification and prioritization of white-space opportunities, trade area optimization, and existing restaurant coverage improvements.
- Partner with Development and Franchise Operations to translate market planning insights into actionable franchisee growth strategies.
- Oversee market planning tools, analytical frameworks, and external vendor relationships to ensure high-quality, data-driven recommendations.
- Support key development decisions by evaluating growth opportunities in the context of franchisee portfolio health and market potential.
Team Leadership & Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Lead, coach, and develop team members supporting franchise portfolio strategy, performance analysis, and market planning.
- Build cross-functional alignment with Finance, Development, Franchise Operations, Legal, and other stakeholders on strategic priorities.
- Translate complex financial, operational, and market analyses into clear recommendations for senior leadership.
- Lead high-priority strategic projects from problem definition through recommendation and implementation planning.
Education/Certifications
- University degree in Business, Finance, Economics, or a related discipline required; MBA or advanced degree preferred.
Experience
- 7+ years of relevant experience in corporate strategy, franchise strategy, business development, management consulting, finance, or related fields.
- Experience in the multi-unit restaurant, retail, or franchise industry strongly preferred.
- Strong strategic and analytical capabilities, with experience solving complex business problems and translating insights into actionable recommendations.
- Strong financial acumen, including unit-level economics, profitability drivers, capital investment decisions, and business performance metrics.
- Experience developing and executing strategic initiatives involving multiple cross-functional stakeholders.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and influencing skills, including the ability to engage and influence senior leadership.
- Ability to independently lead complex projects, manage competing priorities, and deliver results in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience leading, coaching, and developing high-performing teams.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint; experience with business intelligence and analytical tools preferred.
The Senior Manager, Franchise Performance plays a critical role in shaping the long-term health, profitability, and growth potential of the KFC U.S. franchise system. This role leads the development of strategies to optimize the franchisee network, strengthen franchisee performance, and position the system for sustainable growth, partnering with cross-functional teams to translate strategic priorities into action. The role also provides strategic oversight of market planning, ensuring development opportunities align with broader franchise portfolio objectives.
Franchise Portfolio Strategy & Optimization
- Lead the development of KFC U.S.’s long-term franchise portfolio strategy, defining the optimal franchisee network structure to support system health, profitability, and sustainable growth.
- Assess the existing franchisee landscape, including portfolio composition, geographic concentration, operator capabilities, financial health, and growth potential, to identify opportunities to strengthen the system.
- Develop a long-term portfolio optimization roadmap, identifying priority markets, franchisee portfolios, and opportunities for consolidation, ownership transitions, and introduction of new capital.
- Establish strategic frameworks and criteria to evaluate franchisee portfolio opportunities, balancing operator capabilities, financial performance, market potential, and development objectives.
- Develop recommendations for distressed or underperforming portfolios and hand off prioritized opportunities to Franchise & Development Finance for transaction assessment, structuring, and execution.
- Collaborate with Finance and Development to inform incentive structures and investment strategies that encourage franchisee growth, portfolio transformation, and new restaurant development.
- Monitor the impact of portfolio initiatives on restaurant performance, franchisee profitability, royalty generation, and long-term growth capacity to refine the strategy.
Franchisee Performance & Profitability
- Lead strategies to improve franchisee profitability, financial health, and overall system performance.
- Establish a franchisee performance management framework, including KPIs, scorecards, and analytical tools to assess operator performance and identify improvement opportunities.
- Analyze financial and operational results to identify systemic challenges, performance gaps, and opportunities to strengthen restaurant-level economics.
- Partner with Franchise Operations, Finance, and other teams to develop targeted improvement strategies for underperforming franchisees.
- Support franchisee quarterly business reviews and senior leadership engagement forums with actionable performance insights.
- Develop reporting capabilities that give leadership a clear view of franchise system health, emerging risks, and performance opportunities.
Market Planning & Growth Strategy
- Provide strategic oversight of KFC U.S. market planning, ensuring market plans align with franchise portfolio objectives and system growth priorities.
- Guide market-level identification and prioritization of white-space opportunities, trade area optimization, and existing restaurant coverage improvements.
- Partner with Development and Franchise Operations to translate market planning insights into actionable franchisee growth strategies.
- Oversee market planning tools, analytical frameworks, and external vendor relationships to ensure high-quality, data-driven recommendations.
- Support key development decisions by evaluating growth opportunities in the context of franchisee portfolio health and market potential.
Team Leadership & Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Lead, coach, and develop team members supporting franchise portfolio strategy, performance analysis, and market planning.
- Build cross-functional alignment with Finance, Development, Franchise Operations, Legal, and other stakeholders on strategic priorities.
- Translate complex financial, operational, and market analyses into clear recommendations for senior leadership.
- Lead high-priority strategic projects from problem definition through recommendation and implementation planning.
Education/Certifications
- University degree in Business, Finance, Economics, or a related discipline required; MBA or advanced degree preferred.
Experience
- 7+ years of relevant experience in corporate strategy, franchise strategy, business development, management consulting, finance, or related fields.
- Experience in the multi-unit restaurant, retail, or franchise industry strongly preferred.
- Strong strategic and analytical capabilities, with experience solving complex business problems and translating insights into actionable recommendations.
- Strong financial acumen, including unit-level economics, profitability drivers, capital investment decisions, and business performance metrics.
- Experience developing and executing strategic initiatives involving multiple cross-functional stakeholders.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and influencing skills, including the ability to engage and influence senior leadership.
- Ability to independently lead complex projects, manage competing priorities, and deliver results in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience leading, coaching, and developing high-performing teams.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint; experience with business intelligence and analytical tools preferred.
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Who's Hiring
- Lockheed Martin20
- Meta5
- Stellantis4
- Rush University Medical Center4
- Amazon3
Top Industries Hiring
- Insurance
- Technology & Software
- Healthcare & Medical Services
- Medical Devices
- Fashion & Apparel
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in product planning manager jobs.
- Bachelor's degree in supply chain, business, engineering, or a related field
- Experience with S&OP or integrated business planning processes
- Proficiency in demand forecasting tools and ERP or MRP systems
- Demonstrated ability to manage cross-functional product launch programs
- Strong data analysis skills using Excel, SQL, or business intelligence tools
- Experience translating market or customer inputs into actionable product plans
Tips for Your Product Planning Manager Job Search
Tailor your resume to planning outputs
Hiring managers for this role look for evidence of forecast accuracy, launch timelines met, and cross-functional alignment. Quantify results in terms of on-time delivery rates, SKU rationalization, or cycle time reductions rather than listing generic project management duties.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists product planning manager openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Show your fluency with planning tools
Many job descriptions screen for hands-on experience with S&OP processes, MRP systems, or demand planning software. Call out the specific tools you have used in your resume summary and in your work history entries, not just in a skills list.
Target postings that match your planning horizon
Some product planning manager roles focus on short-cycle operational planning while others own multi-year portfolio roadmaps. Read the job description carefully and filter for the horizon that matches your background, since these roles require different interview preparation.
Prepare a cross-functional influence story
Interviewers for this role almost always ask how you have aligned engineering, sales, and supply chain around a plan. Prepare two or three specific examples where you drove consensus across competing priorities, including how you handled pushback from a senior stakeholder.
Negotiate with launch timing in mind
Offer timing in product planning often coincides with annual planning cycles or product launch windows. If your start date is flexible, mention it during negotiations, since hiring managers may move faster or offer stronger packages to candidates who can onboard before a key planning milestone.
Product Planning Manager Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most product planning managers?
Lockheed Martin, Meta, and Stellantis are hiring the most product planning managers right now, with openings concentrated in California, Texas, and New York, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Industries with the highest volume of openings include automotive, consumer electronics, and industrial manufacturing.
How many product planning manager jobs are remote?
About 94% of product planning manager openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, though fully on-site roles remain common in manufacturing and hardware-dependent environments. Sub-areas such as software product planning and go-to-market strategy tend to offer the highest share of remote and hybrid flexibility.
How do you become a product planning manager?
Most product planning managers move into the role from adjacent functions such as supply chain analysis, program management, or product operations. Building hands-on experience with demand planning cycles, cross-functional launch programs, and S&OP processes is the most direct path. Demonstrating that you can translate business strategy into executable plans is what separates candidates who get the role from those who stay in analyst positions.
Can you get a product planning manager job without direct experience?
Yes, but you need to close the gap with transferable evidence. Candidates from supply chain coordination, business analysis, or operations roles who have contributed to product launch or planning cycles are competitive even without the exact title. Frame your resume around planning outputs you influenced, not just the job you held, and target companies that are growing quickly enough to hire people who are one step ahead of their current experience.
What does the product planning manager interview process look like?
The process typically begins with a recruiter screen focused on planning tool experience and scope of past roles, followed by a hiring manager interview that probes how you build and defend a plan under uncertainty. Later rounds usually include a cross-functional panel with stakeholders from engineering, sales, or supply chain, and a case or take-home exercise where you forecast demand, prioritize a product portfolio, or build a launch timeline. References are often checked before an offer is extended.
Where can I find and apply to product planning manager jobs?
You can find and apply to product planning manager jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search for roles that match your industry background and seniority level, then apply directly to each listing that fits your experience.
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