Title: SVP Supply Chain

               

Location: Kennewick, WA

               

About Lamb Weston

We love making fries almost as much as you like eating them! Since the 1950’s, Lamb Weston has inspired customers with food they love, trust, and share with families and friends. As a leading global manufacturer of quality frozen potato products with over 10,000+ team members around the world, it’s our business to see the possibilities in potatoes and people.

We are looking for team members with an appetite for a challenge! People who are hungry to join a winning team and help us make a difference in the world. When you join Lamb Weston, you join a community with a strong support network and training programs designed to nurture, inspire, and help you grow.

We are driven by a relentless pursuit of results and by people who think creatively and embrace our values of: Integrity, Teamwork, Inclusion, Drive for Results, and Empowerment. Exactly what you’d expect from the most inventive potato company in the world!

Join Lamb Weston! We bring the world together with our fries.

Job Description Summary

               

Reporting to the Global Chief Supply Chain Officer, this role is responsible for leading Lamb Weston’s North American Supply Chain and develops and implements a comprehensive supply chain and fulfillment strategy that aligns with business goals and enhances the customer and consumer experience. Scope encompasses strategic and financial planning, capacity planning, network optimization, demand and supply planning, S&OP, manufacturing operations, continuous process improvement, warehousing and transportation, and inventory management. The primary goal is optimizing efficiency, cost effectiveness, and customer service while ensuring quality standards are met and customers’ orders are delivered on time and in full.
The SVP Supply Chain is accountable for all North American manufacturing sites and collaborates closely with the EHS, Food Safety/ Quality, Finance, Commercial, Marketing & Innovation, Procurement, and Engineering teams in Lamb Weston’s matrixed structure ensuring that North American product supply meets global and regional demand effectively and efficiently. The leader is responsible for delivering products that meet safety, quality, service, delivery, performance, cost, and inventory management targets. They will identify and develop next-generation leaders and build effective teams who work within Lamb Weston’s values and cultural framework to achieve company goals.

Job Description

Key Accountabilities

• Develop and implement integrated plans aligning Supply Chain to Lamb Weston’s mission: to create experiences that inspire and serve customers with food they love and trust.
• Identify, hire, and develop Supply Chain leadership talent and build an effective team that operates in accordance with company values of Integrity, Teamwork, Inclusion, Drive for Results, and Empowerment.
• Collaborate with Finance partners to develop annual budgets supporting strategic plans.
• Set, monitor, and manage Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for North American Supply Chain to deliver performance that meets or exceeds budgeted targets in line with safety, quality, environmental standards, customer expectations, and cost targets.
• Improve supply chain processes in accordance with evolving environmental policies, regulations, and laws.
• Collaborate with the Marketing and Innovation teams to enable business development and growth in alignment with consumer trends and customer needs.
• Share, transfer, and embed best practices across Lamb Weston’s operations.
• Drive safety, productivity, and continuous improvement initiatives for NA plants.
• Drive zero-loss manufacturing and a continuous improvement culture that achieves world-class performance standards.
• Optimize the N.A. manufacturing network in collaboration with global functional teams.
• Collaborates with HR Business Partners to ensure the workforce structure and people plan enables Supply Chain to achieve its strategic plan.

Basic & Preferred Qualifications

Required Skills & Experience

• 15+ years of progressive experience in a manufacturing environment with end-to-end supply chain experience, preferably in food processing.
• Strong leadership experience in large-scale manufacturing and spanning multiple plants.
• Demonstrated ability to identify and develop talent and build healthy, effective teams.
• Experience working effectively in a complex, matrixed environment and building productive partnerships internally and externally.
• Proven track record in continuous improvement processes, Lean tools, TPM, cost reduction programs, and behavioral-based safety initiatives.
• Knowledge of food safety and quality practices for compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Experience managing high-complexity, cross-functional projects.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Operations Management, Business, or a similar field.
• Ability to travel independently (approximately 30%).

Position will be based in the Tri-Cities, Washington area.  Relocation provided.

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.

               

Job Requisition ID: Req-256394

               

Time Type: Full time

               

Anticipated Close Date: 02/07/2025

               

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 based on the variables previously mentioned is: $288,760.00 - $433,140.00

               

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