Title: Sr Manager Strategy
Location: Eagle, ID
Job Requisition ID: Req-272210
Time Type: Full time
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…