Manager Manufacturing

Overview

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.

Title:

Manager Contract Manufacturing

Location:

Eagle,
Job

Requisition
-259733
Time Type:
Full time

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.

The Manager Contract Manufacturing will serve as the main point of contact to locate and develop worldwide manufacturing capabilities. It is critical this person has their finger on the pulse of the worldwide food manufacturing industry, to proactively see opportunities and gaps LW can use to drive innovation.

Develops and maintains relationships with strategic/ high spend / high risk contract manufacturers and manages performance to Lamb Weston standards and requirements associated with Quality, Service, Food Safety and Cost within requirements of the contracts. Manages strategic / high value / high risk projects associated with assigned relationships, and Business Unit initiatives in order to drive, the right product at the right cost.

Leads projects to develop department processes and systems to support consistent approach to work and high performance.

This position will work mainly with the dedicated discovery innovation team. This team is focused on the identification of expansion opportunities beyond current boundaries (e.g., new markets, new technological advancements, and new business models), proposition development through building, buying, and/or partnering, and incubation/optimization of the innovation solution to a final recommendation.

• Collaborates with other team members to generate new product and packaging ideas.
• Creates external network of potential technology sources and links in strategic areas.
• Assists with identifying external sources of new technologies for use in potato product or processing.
• Translates findings to potential applications and opportunities.
• Primary liaison between Discovery team and COMAN.
• Attends trade shows/technical meetings inside and outside industry to discover new technologies for application in potatoes.
• Identifies and fosters external relationships with potential co-packing companies.
• Ensures the entire value chain, key strategies and potential risks to optimize company returns are calculated and communicated.

• Negotiates access to manufacturing assets for scale up validation, business terms and access to external technologies for initial validation/proof of concept.
• Ability to understand and leverage business opportunities, company strategies and key metrics in making decisions which deliver results.
• Validates external manufacturing locations for new products and packaging.
• Evaluates potential Co-packer for fit with LW (culture, quality, food safety).
• Liaison with the Operations function for internal manufacturing to align with Company manufacturing strategy to maximize leverage between Contract Manufacturing, Marketing, Innovation, Quality, Manufacturing, Procurement and Logistics departments.
• Work with the Procurement function to help develop manufacturing and capacity strategies that are consistent with the current and future sourcing strategies.

• Partners with Commercialization team to manage project handoffs from pilot through full-scale execution to ensure specifications are established prior to production and all parameters are achieved during the qualification, verification and commercialization steps.
• Ensure adequate technical representation (Quality,…