VP Data & Business Intelligence

Title: VP Data & Business Intelligence

               

Location: Eagle, ID

               

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

               

As the Vice President of Data & Business Intelligence, a primary focus will be on establishing the enterprise-wide data strategy that powers informed decision-making, operational efficiency, and scalable business growth at Lamb Weston. You will have direct ownership of the centralization of Data & Business Intelligence services, directing Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, BI, and Data Governance. You will ensure our data is high-quality, secure, and accessible across all functions. In this strategic and hands-on role, you'll collaborate with executive leadership and business units to embed data as a core asset, driving digital transformation, data innovation, and the continued advancement of our analytics capabilities. Reporting to the CIO, your leadership will be instrumental in shaping the future of data at Lamb Weston.

Job Description

Role Responsibilities:

Leadership & Strategy

• Establish the strategic direction and priorities that ladder up to the Lamb Weston’s business priorities.
• Execute, oversee, and adapt the comprehensive enterprise data strategy aligned to business priorities.
• Establish performance benchmarks, project milestones, and KPIs to ensure projects are delivered on time and on budget and day-to-day operations meet the needs of the business.
• Directly manage a multi-disciplinary team of data engineers, analytics engineers, BI developers, data analysts, and data governance professionals.
• Provide strategic leadership, mentorship, and performance management to direct reports and broader team members.
• Lead department succession planning and talent development efforts and bring a strong point of view to enterprise IT succession planning efforts to grow future data leaders.
• Ownership of department budgets, vendor relationships, and resource planning to support organizational needs.
• Lead the organization from Descriptive/Diagnostic Analytics to Predictive/Prescriptive Analytics.

Cross Functional Collaboration

• Partner with Finance, Strategy, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Commercial, Marketing, and IT to deliver trusted, reusable data products and insights.
• Enable and advocate for a data-driven culture across departments, driving data literacy, education, and responsible data use.
• Lead enterprise-wide initiatives that integrate data into everyday decision-making, operations, and strategy development.
• Lead cross-functional data initiatives and steering groups with senior business and IT stakeholders.

 Data

• Establish and manage a robust data governance framework, including data quality, lineage, stewardship, metadata frameworks, and access control.
• Architect and oversee scalable data pipelines and services to source and curate high-quality datasets for analytics, business intelligence, and (futuristically) machine learning use cases.

   Analytics

• Oversee the delivery of self-service BI solutions, KPIs, dashboards, and enterprise reporting that empower business teams.
• Lead the business through transformation from spreadsheet-based analytics to more advanced analytics, fully utilizing our Business Intelligence suite of tools.
• Drive the adoption of self-service BI and promote data literacy throughout the organization

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

• Establish strategic direction for use and application of AI/ML at Lamb Weston.
• Serve as on-going thought leader and subject matter expert in the application of AI and ML in a business