Manager Learning and Development

About Lamb Weston

Youve 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. Youll gain access to hands-on training to fuel your growth and success explore opportunities for new solutions and youll join a winning team of 10000 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

Job Description

• Creates plant Learning and Development strategies supporting seven Manufacturing facilities.
• Provides direct oversight coaching and development of Learning & Development Specialists in each plant.
• Develops & implements impactful Learning & Development content that addresses business needs priorities and objectives.
• Ensures consistent high quality technical and operational training across facilities.
• Facilitates dynamic learner-centered training sessions providing engaging learning experiences.
• Creates training material to ensure team members have the required competency development to excel in their role.
• Confirms training material aligns with operating processes procedures and systems.
• Works with local and enterprise stakeholders to coordinate and organize training sessions.
• Ensures training programs and documentation meet food safety regulatory and internal compliance standards.
• Monitors training effectiveness by collecting feedback and measuring results in order to continually improve course content and facilitation.
• Ensures training is scalable and effective by conducting train-the-trainer sessions and supporting materials.

Basic & Preferred Qualifications

Role Competencies

• Organizational awareness/understanding maintains the requisite level of organizational understanding required in the role.
• Innovation/Innovative thinking creates new and better ways for the organization to be successful. Uses creative thinking to propose or initiate new ideas methods ways of working processes. products etc.
• Learning mindset - has the desire and exhibits effort for improving professional skills and competencies.
• Customer focus - ability to build and maintain customer-focused relationships based on the delivery of a service product or value. Prioritizes and takes action on the needs of customers. Designs and delivers products and services with the customer experience top of mind.
• Functional communication - ability to state ideas clearly and apply effective communication and listening skills.
• Information management/organization - identifies and applies role-based information needs for projects contacts tasks etc.
• Business process/Function expertise - end-to-end knowledge and expertise in the team members functional areas of responsibility.
• Team leadership - influences and coordinates the actions of a group in order to bring about effective results over time.
• People advocacy - creates a strong internal culture gets the best out of people acts as a trusted champion and communicator.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in education Organizational Development Human Resources Operations or related field or equivalent experience required.
• 3 years of experience in Learning & Development or training within a manufacturing environment required - food manufacturing preferred.
• Experience building and leading teams across multiple locations is preferred.
• Strong knowledge of technical and operational training in manufacturing settings.
• Demonstrated leadership and coaching skills.
• Developing strong stakeholder relationships.

• Background in food manufacturing environments with GMPs HACCP SQF or similar standards preferred.
• Familiarity with learning management systems (LMS) and training analytics is helpful but not required.
• Experience supporting union and nonunion workforces preferred.

Work Environment

• Regular travel to manufacturing facilities within the region (approximately 5060%).
• Combination of office plant floor and remote work.

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

Pay Transparency

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