Sr Project Manager Epmo

Title: Sr Project Manager ePMO

Location: Eagle, ID

Job Requisition ID: Req-259803

Time Type: Full time

About Lamb Weston

You've probably enjoyed our fries without even knowing it! As a leading manufacturer in our industry, and public Fortune 500 company, 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

The Senior Project Manager in the Enterprise PMO is responsible for delivering enterprise initiatives that advance Lamb Weston's top strategic priorities. This role leads high-profile, complex, cross-functional projects that are critical to business performance, capacity, cost, growth, and risk mitigation.

The Senior Project Manager partners closely with senior leaders to translate strategic priorities into actionable plans, ensure disciplined execution, and provide transparency to leadership on progress, risks, and outcomes. Success in this role requires strong judgment, structured execution, and the ability to navigate a highly matrixed organization while keeping focus on what matters most.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

Delivery of Strategic Priorities

• Lead high-impact enterprise initiatives aligned to Lamb Weston's strategic priorities, including capacity expansion, supply chain effectiveness, cost optimization, commercial enablement, and enterprise systems

• Translate strategic objectives and business cases into clear project plans with defined scope, milestones, dependencies, and success measures

• Manage cross-functional teams to deliver commitments on time and within approved funding

• Maintain focus on priority outcomes, proactively managing scope, tradeoffs, and constraints

Executive & Stakeholder Partnership

• Partner with executive sponsors and senior leaders to clarify objectives, roles, and decision rights

• Drive alignment across functions in a matrixed environment, influencing without direct authority

• Facilitate discovery sessions, governance forums, and project check ins with concise, decision-oriented materials

• Provide clear escalation of risks, issues, and options to enable timely leadership decisions

Governance, Reporting & Performance Management

• Apply Enterprise PMO standards for planning, stage gates, risk management, and reporting

• Deliver accurate, executive-ready status updates highlighting progress against strategic commitments

• Track financials, milestones, dependencies, and key risks across assigned initiatives

• Ensure initiatives remain aligned to enterprise priorities, capacity, and sequencing

Value Delivery & Close

• Partner with business owners to define success metrics and ensure accountability for outcomes

• Support benefits tracking through implementation and transition to operations

• Ensure projects are closed with appropriate documentation, lessons learned, and handoff

Portfolio & Capability Enablement

• Support portfolio planning and prioritization activities with insight into execution risk and readiness

• Identify cross-initiative dependencies and resource constraints impacting strategic delivery

• Mentor project managers and teams on enterprise execution expectations and best practices

Basic & Preferred Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Operations, Information Systems, or related field OR;

• 8+ years of experience leading complex, cross-functional projects in large organizations

• PMP or similar certification

• Demonstrated experience delivering initiatives tied to business strategy and executive priorities

• Strong communication skills with the ability to engage effectively at the executive level

• Proven ability to manage ambiguity, competing priorities, and stakeholder expectations

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in food manufacturing, CPG, or supply-chain-intensive environments

• Experience supporting enterprise systems, manufacturing, or supply chain initiatives

• Familiarity with both traditional and hybrid project delivery approaches

Key Competencies

• Strategic orientation with strong execution discipline

• Clear, concise, and confident communication

• Sound judgment and decision-making

• Ability to influence across functions and levels

• High accountability and results focus

Why Lamb Weston

Lamb Weston's Enterprise PMO plays a central role in enabling execution of the company's most important priorities. This role offers exposure to senior leadership, enterprise-wide initiatives, and opportunities to materially impact business performance through disciplined delivery.

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: 03/22/2026

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: $113,930.00 - $170,900.00

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