The Commercial Planning Manager is responsible for driving both commercial performance insight and forward-looking financial planning across the UK Dine In restaurant business

The role owns the Dine In trading rhythm while also leading forward-looking planning, budgeting and scenario modelling across sales, margin and key cost lines. It connects trading insight (Sales, Transactions, AOV, Mix) to full P&L outcomes and ensures robust financial plans underpin decision-making.

A key focus is balancing customer competitiveness with sustainable profitability, continuous improvement on business economics while supporting delivery of internal IOM targets. This role requires strong commercial judgement, analytical rigour, financial modelling capability and the ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders.

At certain times holiday support may be required for the management accounts team for month end.

Package

• Base salary between £52,000 - £58,000 per annum
• Annual bonus based on business performance
• Private medical insurance
• Life Assurance
• Pension contributions up to 7.5% employer contribution & salary sacrifice scheme.

This role is for Yum! Europe Equity Stores.

Skills

• Strong financial modelling and forecasting capability.

• Experience in budgeting and reforecast processes.

• Commercially astute with ability to translate data into business decisions.

• Clear and confident communicator, able to influence senior stakeholders.

• Comfortable balancing weekly trading pace with longer-term planning cycles.

• Continuous improvement mindset across reporting, modelling and planning processes.

Qualifications and Experience

• CIMA or ACCA (qualified or part-qualified preferred).

• 3–5+ years’ experience across commercial finance and/or FP&A roles

• Experience building integrated financial models (sales → margin → EBITDA)

• Advanced Excel essential.

• Power BI and/or SQL beneficial but not essential.

• Experience within QSR, retail, hospitality or another consumer trading environment preferred.

1. Trading & Commercial Performance Leadership (25–30%)

• Own the Dine In weekly trading cycle, providing clear insight on performance drivers (traffic, ticket, mix, promo response, daypart).

• Lead monthly performance reviews, translating trading outcomes into a clear P&L narrative (Sales → Gross Margin → Labour/Semis → EBITDA).

• Evaluate effectiveness of media, promotions, menu changes and operational initiatives. Deliver concise recommendations and “next steps” to Operations, Marketing and Leadership.

• Build and continuously improve insight-led dashboards (focused on clarity and actionability).

• Support identification and quantification of growth opportunities in partnership with cross-functional teams (mainly Marketing and Operations)

2. Financial Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting (30%)

• Work closely with Financial Control Teams during month-end to ensure accurate reporting and provide robust analysis of gross margin performance versus budget and forecast, clearly articulating drivers, risks and required actions

• Support the annual budgeting process across revenue, gross margin and selected cost lines.

• Develop and maintain robust financial models to support scenario planning (pricing changes, promotional strategies, inflationary pressures, traffic volatility).

• Own store-level sales plans and ensure alignment with company-level financial targets.

• Provide forward-looking risk and opportunity tracking with quantified financial impact.

3. Promotions, Pricing & Commercial Modelling (20%)

• Develop robust financial business cases for promotions, CRM initiatives, loyalty and value propositions.

• Model incrementality, cannibalisation, AOV/mix impacts, margin flow-through and EBITDA impact.

• Support pricing strategy across channels, ensuring balance between competitiveness and profitability.

• Conduct post-investment reviews and ensure learnings are embedded into future planning assumptions.

• Provide scenario modelling to support strategic commercial decisions

4. Profitability, Cost & P&L Management (20%)

• Drive restaurant margin improvement by providing clear insight into key P&L cost drivers (Labour and COS) and influencing operational decisions to improve cost efficiency and flow-through

• Own and continuously enhance the labour scheduling and requirement model, ensuring alignment with sales forecasts and productivity targets while identifying opportunities to improve labour efficiency and margin flow-through.

People & Culture

• Champion a growth mindset, work as part of a collaborate team that learn and grow together.