Associate Product Portfolio and Innovation Analyst

Associate Product Portfolio And Innovation Analyst

Location: Richland, WA

Aid in innovation pipeline, product portfolio health, and product life cycle management efforts to maximize revenues and realize profitable growth.

Portfolio & Innovation Analytics

• Support innovation pipeline management, product portfolio health assessment, and product life cycle management efforts to maximize revenue and profitable growth.
• Analyze product performance data to identify trends, risks, and opportunities, recommending actions to improve portfolio health.
• Conduct in-depth new product introduction (NPI) retrospectives and performance benchmarking.
• Develop data-driven product discontinuation recommendations and support execution tracking and reporting.

Reporting & Decision Support

• Utilize metrics and data visualization to report on innovation pipeline and portfolio performance, enabling transparency and informed decision-making.
• Prepare and present portfolio reviews for S&OP Step 1, synthesizing insights.
• Organize and document innovation funnel calls, ensuring clarity on decisions, actions, and next steps.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Work cross-functionally with category, insights, and marketing teams to ensure balanced perspectives and actionable recommendations.
• Build deep understanding of product attributes and specifications to support effective portfolio optimization.
• Research and assess product portfolio management best practices across the food and beverage industry, applying relevant learnings to drive continuous improvement.

Tools, Data & Process Support

• Serve as data custodian for key material master data elements, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and governance.
• Partner with business and technical stakeholders to maintain and enhance cloud coach functionality aligned to project management needs and reporting requirements.
• Provide day-to-day support for innovation pmo technologies, dashboards, and reporting.
• Develop training materials, end-user training strategies, and ongoing support for innovation pmo users.

Basic & Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in economics, marketing, finance, or related field preferred.
• 2 years' experience preferred.
• Excel proficiency required.
• Power BI experience preferred.
• Cloud coach or Salesforce experience preferred.
• Experience in project and product management preferred.

Industry-Competitive Benefits

• 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: 07/05/2026

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: $59,010.00 - $88,510.00

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.