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Lamb Weston Senior Manager - North America Regional Applications in Olympia, Washington
Title: Senior Manager - North America Regional Applications Location: Statewide Multi Use, WA About Lamb Weston We love making fries almost as much as you like eating them! Since the 1950's, Lamb Weston has inspired customers with food they love, trust, and share with families and friends. As a leading global manufacturer of quality frozen potato products with over 10,000+ team members around the world, it's our business to see the possibilities in potatoes and people. We are looking for team members with an appetite for a challenge! People who are hungry to join a winning team and help us make a difference in the world. When you join Lamb Weston, you join a community with a strong support network and training programs designed to nurture, inspire, and help you grow. We are driven by a relentless pursuit of results and by people who think creatively and embrace our values of: Integrity, Teamwork, Inclusion, Drive for Results, and Empowerment. Exactly what you'd expect from the most inventive potato company in the world! Join Lamb Weston! We bring the world together with our fries. Job Description Summary The Senior Manager of NA Regional Applications oversees a portfolio of regional business applications supporting North America operations. This role focuses on managing application teams, driving enhancements, and ensuring the scalability, reliability, and security of application solutions. The position serves as a bridge between technical teams and business stakeholders, fostering collaboration and innovation. The ideal candidate will be self-motivated, and details oriented with experience working in a complex software environment. Job Description Job Responsibilities: * Responsible for building and maintaining a team of developers and analysts to support mainframe application development (related to plant operations) and testing capabilities to support the NA regional environment * Manage the delivery and support of applications within assigned portfolios, ensuring alignment with business objectives and technical standards. * Drive innovation by adopting emerging technologies and modernizing legacy applications to meet evolving business needs. * Manages all aspects of vendors related to support of key objectives including sourcing, onboarding, guiding, budgeting, and escalations * Drive the retirement and decommissioning of redundant or obsolete regional applications, thus reducing our technical debt * Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and prioritize enhancements that address business challenges and opportunities. * Develop governance practices to ensure compliance, consistency, and security across application portfolios. * Monitor application performance, resolving issues proactively to minimize downtime and impact on business operations. * Coordinate with IT infrastructure and platform teams to ensure seamless integration of applications with regional systems. * Manage vendor relationships, contracts, and service-level agreements (SLAs) for application support and development. * Provide mentorship and guidance to application teams, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement. * Prepare and present reports on application performance, risks, and strategic initiatives to senior leadership. * Creates strategic alignment of operational processes and projects in the NA region throughout Lamb Weston including any participating joint ventures. * Builds a capability in process improvement and operational excellence leveraging resources across the application teams to improve the quality, consistency, and efficiency of service outcomes * Drives the team to design systems & tools that will detect, diagnose, remedy and report th To view the full job description,