Manager Supply Chain Project Management

Title: Manager Supply Chain Project Management


Location: Kennewick, WA


Job Requisition ID: Req-260443


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 Supply Chain Project Manager leads complex, cross-functional projects that enable operational efficiency, cost optimization, and improved supply chain performance. This role applies strong project management discipline to drive planning, execution, and delivery of initiatives spanning procurement, logistics, distribution, inventory management, systems implementation, and network optimization.


This leader manages diverse stakeholder groups, builds alignment across supply chain functions, and ensures project outcomes support broader business strategies.

Job Description

Project Leadership & Execution

• Lead largescale or multiple mid-sized supply chain projects from initiation through delivery, applying established project management methodologies
  
  

• Define project scope, goals, success metrics, and timelines; monitor progress and lead corrective actions as needed.
  
  

• Develop and maintain project documentation, including schedules, status reports, risk logs, and stakeholder communications.
  
  

• Facilitate decision-making in ambiguous situations by balancing available data, risks, and shifting priorities.
  

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Drive planning and execution efforts with partners across procurement, sourcing, transportation, distribution, finance, technology, store operations, and external vendors.
  
  

• Build high performing project teams, often including geographically distributed stakeholders, as outlined in the Project Manager expectations in the uploaded file.
  
  

• Serve as a connector between technical teams and business leaders to ensure shared understanding of project objectives and outcomes.
  
  

• Active member of the enterprise Project Management Community of Practice, representing Supply Chain and sharing best practices across functions.
  
  

Strategic Alignment & Communication

• Communicate how each project supports broader supply chain and enterprise goals, reflecting alignment expectations from the provided project manager standards.
  
  

• Present project updates to leadership, ensuring transparency on milestones, risks, resourcing, and financial impacts.
  
  

• Partner with supply chain leaders to prioritize projects based on business value, urgency, and interdependencies.
  
  

Risk, Issue & Change Management

• Identify and mitigate risks across cost, quality, schedule, scope, and cross functional dependencies, incorporating standard PM practices referenced in the file.
  
  

• Navigate organizational processes, policies, and cultures to remove barriers and manage change effectively.
  
  

• Ensure stakeholder impacts are understood and supported with appropriate change management plans.
  
  

Basic & Preferred Qualifications

Education/ Certifications: (Required & Preferred)

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Operations Management, Engineering, or related field required.
  
  

• PMP, Lean Six Sigma, or Agile certification preferred.
  
  

Skills and Experience:

• 5+ years project management experience, including scope, time, cost, risk, quality, integration, procurement, human resources, and communications.
  
  

• 3+ years managing largescale or multiple mid-sized projects.
  
  

• 2 yrs mentoring other project managers in program and project management
  
  

• Prior project work in supply chain, logistics, manufacturing, or operations environments.
  
  

• Experience with supply chain systems (e.g., WMS, TMS, ERP).
  
  

• Experience managing vendors or third-party logistics partners.
  
  

• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities with demonstrated business acumen.
  
  

• Business Acumen & Problem Solving: Understands operational impacts and optimizes processes across the end-to-end supply chain.
  
  

• Prioritization & Planning: Focuses on the most critical work, adjusting effectively to shifting priorities.
  
  

• Collaboration & Communication: Builds alignment and models collaborative behaviors, consistent with the reference PM expectations.
  
  

• Professional Expertise: Applies project management tools and best practices to deliver business value.
  
  

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:

• 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
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: 06/05/2026

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: $117,060.00 - $175,600.00

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