Sr Manager Strategy

About Lamb Weston

You’ve probably enjoyed our fries without even knowing it! As a leading manufacturer in our industry, we inspire and bring people together with foods they love and trust. Our customer base includes international food service providers, restaurants, and households in over 100 countries around the world. 

A highly innovative global corporation with a start-up mindset, we empower every individual to make a genuine difference. You’ll gain access to hands-on training to fuel your growth and success, explore opportunities for new solutions, and you’ll join a winning team of 10,000+ people all dedicated to raising the bar – together.

If you have a strong drive for results, a desire to help us bring the world together through our fries, and are ready for a fresh challenge, we want to hear from you.

Job Description Summary

Sr Manager Strategy will analyze, coordinate, and facilitate analysis identifying information sources, gathering and interpreting data, and presenting findings related to customers, competitors, suppliers. Evaluation will support acquisitions and divestitures as well as partner in strategic planning activities that support the ongoing development of long-term business plans.
Ideal candidate will have a traditional consulting background with strong analytical rigor and problem-solving skillset. Most importantly a proven passion to identify issues, execute analysis, translate data into insights, and develop strategic recommendations across the Lamb Weston business. In addition, the role will require the thought leadership to develop implementation plans of strategic recommendations.
This role supports the Lamb Weston strategic planning process, competitive intelligence activities, M&A activities and competitive benchmarking.

Job Description

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• To generate and maintain the adequate process and databases for gathering micro and macro economical, market, sector, competitive and product knowledge, follow-up analyses, distribution of content and competitive intelligence.
• Partner with business unit & functional leaders on strategy development. Seek input, collaboration, and information from all the functions involved in Lamb Weston’s strategic planning process.
• Research new markets, identify key trends, and translate data into actionable insights.
• Support investment/M&A opportunities. 
• Evaluate inbound investment/M&A opportunities, develop business cases and working with Strategy and Finance leaders:
• Research and collect information on markets, competition, analysis, defining information, and updating executive reporting.
• Provide timely updated information relevant to the project.
• Support the process and the project teams with accurate tailored analysis.
• Serve as the internal leader and “go-to” expert for business intelligence and market information.  Communicate and educate business leaders and others on implication(s) from findings.
• Liaise with Business Intelligence Manager at LW’s Joint Venture in Europe to ensure consistency of data on a global basis.

CRITICAL CAPABILITIES

• Financial Management – Ability to understand and apply internal and external business drivers, strategies, modeling to inform opportunities and strategic decisions.
• Market/Business Intelligence - Maintain the market intelligence for the company. Generate market intelligence through market data collection on strategic, tactical and operational level.  Translate market data into business intelligence.  Ensuring business strategies and plans are built on fact-based market data.
• Business Insights - Ability to identify, acquire and communicate insights, both specific customer and marketplace, which can serve as the basis for business strategy creation and initiatives/solutions.  Ability to develop and execute impactful presentations of business proposals.
• Relationship Management - Foster and maintain collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders to identify opportunities and promote business growth, through a shared understanding of success criteria to achieve current and future business goals.
• Business Planning - Ability to facilitate, develop and implement comprehensive internal/external plans that deliver on objectives. Create models, develop business cases and automate data collection to update plans and inform strategy.
• Market Segment & Product Optimization – Using a clear understanding of strategic direction, ability to understand how product optimization, assortment & new item initiatives and “segment-based” solutions may influence strategic direction.
• Cross-Functional  Resourcing – Ability to understand, apply and integrate knowledge of Lamb Weston, its customers and the industry as a whole, across functional areas, including supply chain, to optimize performance.

Basic & Preferred Qualifications

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE / MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS 

• BS/BA degree, Master’s preferred
• Consulting experience preferred 
• Preferred experience in CPG Foodservice, retail and experience with Nielsen/Circana/Technomic/data essential data sets  
• 10+ years financial and quantitative expertise in a global environment
• Ability to address the complex interrelationships among factors that influence the solutions to business issues in order to articulate key business strategies 
• Advanced PowerPoint and Excel skills 
• Demonstrate strong critical thinking and the ability to express ideas clearly, concisely and logically 
• Ability to make balanced and insightful decisions 
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and able to see the “big picture”  
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to communicate at all levels of an organization 
• Proven and confident presentation skills
• Ability to travel with the possibility of international travel

Industry-Competitive Benefits

Coupled with our compensation and bonus incentive programs, our benefits deliver rewards that are market competitive.  Some of the most attractive elements of our benefit programs include:

• Health Insurance Benefits - Medical, Dental, Vision

• Flexible Spending Accounts for Health and Dependent Care, and Health Reimbursement Accounts

• Well-being programs including companywide events and a wellness incentive program

• Paid Time Off

• Financial Wellness – Industry leading 401(k) plan with generous company contributions, Financial Planning Services, Employee Stock purchase program, and Health Savings Accounts, Life and Accident insurance

• Family-Friendly Employee events

• Employee Assistance Program services – mental health and other concierge type services

Benefits may vary based on location, job role/level, job status, and/or the terms of any applicable collective bargaining agreements.

Anticipated Close Date

The anticipated close date is a good faith estimate for when this job will be closed. Some jobs may be unposted or filled earlier or later than the Anticipated Close Date depending on interview processes and business needs.Anticipated Close Date: 01/09/2027

Pay Transparency

In compliance with applicable state and local laws, Lamb Weston has opted to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation for this role. This compensation is specific to this position and takes into account a number of variables. Actual compensation may be higher or lower in the range posted based on various factors, including, but not limited to, job duties, experience and expertise. A candidate's work location could also impact the actual compensation being outside of the range to reflect local cost of labor. A reasonable annual estimate of the range for this role is listed below.Pay Rate or Range: $146,840.00 - $220,250.00

Equal Opportunity Employer

Lamb Weston is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, veteran status or any other protected factor under federal, state or local law