Sr Manager Business Continuity Program

Title : Sr Manager Business Continuity Program

Location : Eagle, ID

Job Requisition ID : Req-259801

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 Sr Manager, Business Continuity Program owns, leads, and is accountable for the design, execution, maturity, and effectiveness of Lamb Weston's enterprise Business Continuity Program. This role serves as the enterprise subject matter leader for business continuity and operational resilience, partnering with executive leadership, functional leaders, and plant operations to ensure the company's ability to prepare for, respond to, and recover from disruptive events.

This role is responsible for setting direction, establishing standards, driving adoption, and ensuring sustained compliance and effectiveness of Business Impact Analyses (BIAs), Business Continuity Plans (BCPs), and the Crisis Response Plan across the organization. The Manager works in close partnership with the IT Disaster Recovery leader to ensure integrated business and technology recovery readiness.

The ideal candidate brings demonstrated experience leading business continuity in a complex manufacturing environment, is risk oriented and pragmatic, and has a proven ability to establish credibility, influence decision making, and maintain executive confidence in the organization's operational resilience posture. The position reports to the VP, Internal Audit / Enterprise Risk and is based in Eagle, Idaho or Kennewick, Washington.

Job Description

• Owns and leads the enterprise Business Continuity Program, including strategy, policies, standards, methodologies, and roadmaps aligned to organizational risk appetite and business objectives.
• Drives continuous improvement of business continuity capabilities across functions and regions, ensuring consistent application of standards while allowing for appropriate operational flexibility.
• Establishes and enforces accountability across business units for completing and maintaining BIAs, BCPs, and related recovery strategies.
• Leads the development, coordination, and delivery of business continuity training, awareness, and role-based materials to ensure leaders and teams understand and execute their responsibilities.
• Plans, directs, and oversees recovery exercises, simulations, and drills, including validation of business process dependencies, critical applications, and workaround strategies.
• Owns issue management and remediation oversight for gaps identified through testing, audits, or real-world events; provides expert guidance and challenges risk acceptance where appropriate.
• Provides executive-level risk analysis, insight, and reporting , including program maturity assessments, metrics, dashboards, and recommendations for investment or risk mitigation.
• Owns the maintenance and effectiveness of business continuity tools, templates, and supporting technologies (e.g., ServiceNow GRC).
• Plays a leadership role during crises , supporting incident response, decision-making, and recovery coordination as required.
• Acts as the primary point of accountability for business continuity-related audit, regulatory, and customer inquiries.
• Partners with Enterprise Risk, Internal Audit, IT Disaster Recovery, and Operations leadership to ensure a cohesive and integrated approach to resilience.

Basic & Preferred Qualifications

Leadership & Competencies

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 :

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 : $127,620.00 - $191,400.00

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