Onsite Senior Manager, Business Continuity Program

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About the role

  • Sr Manager leading Business Continuity Program for Lamb Weston, a global manufacturer. Ensuring operational resilience and crisis response across the organization while driving improvements.

Responsibilities

  • Owns and leads the enterprise Business Continuity Program, including strategy, policies, standards, methodologies, and roadmaps aligned to organizational risk appetite and business objectives
  • Drives continuous improvement of business continuity capabilities across functions and regions, ensuring consistent application of standards while allowing for appropriate operational flexibility
  • Establishes and enforces accountability across business units for completing and maintaining BIAs, BCPs, and related recovery strategies
  • Leads the development, coordination, and delivery of business continuity training, awareness, and role‑based materials to ensure leaders and teams understand and execute their responsibilities
  • Plans, directs, and oversees recovery exercises, simulations, and drills, including validation of business process dependencies, critical applications, and workaround strategies
  • Owns issue management and remediation oversight for gaps identified through testing, audits, or real‑world events; provides expert guidance and challenges risk acceptance where appropriate
  • Provides executive‑level risk analysis, insight, and reporting, including program maturity assessments, metrics, dashboards, and recommendations for investment or risk mitigation
  • Owns the maintenance and effectiveness of business continuity tools, templates, and supporting technologies (e.g., ServiceNow GRC)
  • Plays a leadership role during crises, supporting incident response, decision‑making, and recovery coordination as required
  • Acts as the primary point of accountability for business continuity–related audit, regulatory, and customer inquiries
  • Partners with Enterprise Risk, Internal Audit, IT Disaster Recovery, and Operations leadership to ensure a cohesive and integrated approach to resilience

Requirements

  • Deep, hands-on expertise in Business Continuity management standards, principles, tools, and best practices
  • Bachelor’s degree required in Business, Risk Management, Operations, or a related field
  • 5+ years of progressive experience leading or managing business continuity, crisis management, disaster recovery, risk management, or operational resilience programs (manufacturing or industrial environment strongly preferred)
  • 5+ years of experience leading complex, cross-functional programs with demonstrated ownership and accountability for outcomes
  • Professional certification preferred (DRII, BCI, or equivalent)
  • Demonstrated ability to influence without direct authority and hold senior stakeholders accountable
  • Strong executive-level written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate risk into business impact
  • Risk-based, pragmatic decision-making approach aligned to business priorities
  • Proven capability to set strategic priorities, establish plans, and drive execution across multiple initiatives simultaneously
  • Experience responding to and managing material disruptive events and recoveries
  • Strong project management, planning, and organizational skills with a track record of meeting deadlines
  • Proven adaptability, conflict resolution, and coordination skills in high-pressure environments
  • Willingness to support exercises, training, and live incidents outside standard business hours
  • Ability to travel domestically and internationally as required
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office products; ServiceNow GRC experience preferred.

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

Job title

Senior Manager, Business Continuity Program

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$127,620 - $191,400 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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