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Pizza Hut

Training Specialist

🇺🇸 Hybrid - Plano, TX

🕑 Full-Time

💰 $78K - $92K

💻 Learning & Development

🗓️ May 26th, 2025

Edtech.com's Summary

Pizza Hut is hiring a Training Specialist. This role supports the Equity Leadership team by designing, launching, and managing training programs for 59+ company-owned restaurants, with a focus on Charlotte, Salt Lake City, and Dallas. The Training Specialist coordinates comprehensive training plans, leads bootcamps across various operational areas, and ensures successful onboarding and training certification for restaurant teams.

Highlights 
  • Coordinate and manage training programs and annual training calendars.
  • Lead training bootcamps covering multiple operational disciplines.
  • Ensure proper training completion across all restaurant team levels.
  • 2+ years of multi-unit restaurant or retail experience required.
  • Strong skills in communication, presentation, and leadership are essential.
  • Ability to travel up to 25% required.
  • Salary range: $78,300 to $92,000 annually, with bonus eligibility.
  • Hybrid work schedule with various benefits including tuition reimbursement and parental leave.
  • 401(k) with a 6% matching contribution from Yum!.

Training Specialist Full Description

Training Specialist

Plano, TX, United States (Hybrid)

Job Description
The Pizza Hut Equity Training Specialist will serve as a training partner to the Equity Leadership team, supporting a growing portfolio of 59+ company-owned restaurants. This role is responsible for designing, launching, and managing training programs across Charlotte, Salt Lake City, Dallas, and other markets as the portfolio expands. The ideal candidate will bring strong training acumen, operational curiosity, and a collaborative mindset to help drive operational excellence and team development.

Key Responsibilities:
Training Coordination
  • Coordinate comprehensive training plans and annual training calendar to include eLearning, new product rollouts, management bootcamps, and onboarding cohorts
  • Create, implement, and lead the process to certify training restaurants in each Area

Training Execution
  • Lead training bootcamps covering Operations, HR, P&L Management, Local Marketing, etc. in each of the 3 markets
  • Partner with corporate Operations team and Equity Area Coaches on all new product and process rollouts
  • Support onboarding process and systems to ensure an efficient and thorough process for all team members

Training Management
  • Ensure and validate that training is being properly completed across all levels of restaurant teams (Area Coaches, Managers, Team Members, Drivers, etc.)
  • Analyze training reports and train Area Coaches and RGMs on how to best utilize the tools that are available

Required Qualifications:
  • 2+ Years of multi-unit restaurant or retail experience in training, operations, or HR
  • Ability to travel up to 25% across Texas, Utah, Carolinas, and other markets as the portfolio expands
  • Strong communication, presentation, and leadership skills across virtual and in-person environments
  • Ability to develop, facilitate, and manage leadership content and programs
  • Ability to collaborate, coach, influence, recognize and inspire at all levels
  • Strong project management skills, with an emphasis on organization and time management aptitude
  • Ability to Multi-task in a variety of situations and develop solutions to issues
  • Highly proactive and results driven

Preferred Qualifications:
  • Pizza Hut restaurant experience is preferred

Salary Range: $78,300 to $92,000 annually + bonus eligibility. This is the expected salary range for this position. Ultimately, in determining pay, we'll consider the successful candidate’s location, experience, and other job-related factors.

About Us
Who We Are
Founded in 1958, Pizza Hut - a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc. - now operates more than 18,000 restaurants in more than 100 countries. Pizza Hut is leading the way in providing customers with great experiences, innovating with technology and new products, as well as delivering exceptional service.

Our People & Culture
We're looking for people who LOVE pizza and thrive in a fun, past paced, and customer-centric environment. At our corporate campuses, Pizza Hut has created the perfect place for you to grow your career. Every day, you’ll work to support our franchisees and teams across the U.S., continuously challenging yourself to feed more possibilities. In return, we’ll provide professional development and career growth opportunities so that you can become your best and achieve your goals. And we’ll sweeten the deal by immersing you in our world-class recognition culture and providing a robust array of benefits, some highlights include:
  • Hybrid work schedule and year-round half day Fridays 
  • Onsite childcare through Bright Horizons 
  • Onsite dining center
  • Onsite gym with fitness classes and personal trainer sessions 
  • 4 weeks of vacation per year plus holidays and time off for volunteering 
  • Tuition reimbursement and education benefits 
  • Generous parental leave for all new parents and adoption assistance program 
  • 401(k) with a 6% matching contribution from Yum! 
  • Comprehensive medical & dental including prescription drug benefits and 100% preventive care

Giving Back
As a global company, Pizza Hut aims to make the world better by acting responsibly with respect to food, planet and people. Whether it’s donating food through the Harvest Program or supporting literacy with the Pizza Hut BOOK IT! Program – the company, our franchisees and our team members are committed to improving the communities we serve.

Pizza Hut is an equal opportunity workplace and committed to fostering an inclusive, diverse culture. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability and genetic information (including family medical history).

Job Info
  • Job Identification
  • 3986
  • Posting Date
  • 05/23/2025, 11:27 PM
  • Locations
  •  Plano, TX, United States
    (Hybrid)