Sr Project Manager ePMO

Overview

About Lamb Weston You’ve probably enjoyed our fries without even knowing it! As a leading manufacturer in our industry and a 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: Sr Project Manager ePMO Location: Eagle,  
Job Requisition : Req-259803 Time Type: Full time

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.

• 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
  • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Operations, Information Systems, or related field
  • 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

• Strategic orientation with strong execution discipline
• Clear, concise, and confident communication
• Sound judgment and decision-making
• Ability to influence across…