Title: Manager Organizational Change Management (OCM) - REMOTELocation: Statewide Multi Use, IDJob Requisition ID: Req-260242Time 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 Manager, Organizational Change Management (OCM) plays a critical role in enabling the successful adoption of change across our global organization. This position is responsible for planning, leading, and delivering OCM activities in alignment with the scope and needs of assigned change initiatives.
This role operates within the framework of our OCM Center of Expertise (COE) and must be able to flex seamlessly across multiple scopes of change at the same time—from serving as a fully dedicated resource on large transformational initiatives, consulting with leaders on mid-sized transitions, and guiding teams to self-service resources for smaller initiatives. By balancing these service levels, the Manager ensures that employees are prepared, equipped, and supported to adopt new processes, systems, and ways of working.
Although this role has no direct reports, the Manager will regularly lead and influence cross-functional teams through change efforts. They must be able to mobilize diverse groups, build alignments, and drive results without formal authority.
This role requires a self-starter who can independently lead end-to-end initiatives, proactively identify needs, design effective solutions, and drive outcomes with minimal direction.
As part of our long-term strategy to build organizational change maturity, the Manager will also play a vital role in coaching and educating business leaders. They will help leaders strengthen their change leadership capabilities and embed consistent practices across the enterprise.
Job Description
• Develop and deliver OCM plans, including stakeholder engagement, leadership alignment, communication, training, and adoption measurement.
• Lead and influence cross-functional projects and business teams to achieve change outcomes, even without formal reporting relationships.
• Manage multiple change initiatives simultaneously
• Partner with project teams, leaders, and stakeholders to assess change impacts and readiness.
• Coach and educate business leaders to strengthen their change leadership skills and foster enterprise-wide change in maturity.
• Provide consulting and guidance to leaders to drive people’s transitions and
• Direct leaders and teams to the OCM COE’s toolkit of templates and resources for smaller-scale initiatives.
• Track, measure, and report adoption and business readiness outcomes.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of the OCM COE framework and resources.
Basic & Preferred Qualifications
Education/Certification
• Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s preferred.
• Change management certification (e.g., Prosci, ACMP) required
Experience
• Minimum Functional Experience: 8 years of tactically driving and leading full life-cycle transformational initiatives; advantage if tied to a globally, heavily distributed workforce.
• Minimum Management Experience: 3+ years
• Proven ability to independently lead multiple change initiatives simultaneously end-to-end, from assessment through execution and measurement, and flexing across different service levels.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and influence stakeholders without direct authority.
• Experience managing change across varying levels of scope and complexity.
Capabilities
• Self-starter mindset with a high degree of ownership, accountability, and follow-through.
• Proven ability to coach, influence, and educate business leaders at all levels, building their confidence and capabilities as change leaders.
• Thrives in complex and unclear scenarios and demonstrates agility and resilience to drive results.
• Strong facilitation, consulting, and communication skills with the ability to simplify complexity.
• Ability to influence and build trust across a global, matrixed organization.
• Clearly communicates complex ideas in written and verbal form coupled with keen emotional intelligence and polished etiquette to deliver insights, manage conflicts with diplomacy, and influence outcomes.