# Sr Director Manufacturing

**Company**: Lamb Weston
**Location**: Breda
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Manufacturing
**Industry**: Manufacturing

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## Description

We are seeking an experienced manufacturing leader to join our team as Sr Director Manufacturing. As a strategic leader, you will be responsible for the overall performance and direction of our manufacturing organisation in EMEA.

Key responsibilities include:

- Embedding a culture of employee safety and driving safety performance across all manufacturing and sourcing operations

- Driving food safety and quality culture throughout the organisation and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements

- Leading Plant Managers to ensure EMEA manufacturing strategies align with Lamb Weston's overall business strategies

- Instilling a zero-loss manufacturing culture focused on continuous improvement and operational excellence

- Assessing, identifying, and developing talent to ensure future leaders are prepared for expanded leadership responsibilities

- Setting, measuring, and improving regional operational Key Performance Indicators

- Leading manufacturing transformation initiatives and process optimization efforts

- Driving asset utilization, maintenance excellence, and capital investment planning

- Serving as a key decision maker in the allocation of regional manufacturing resources

- Building strong partnerships across Lamb Weston's global matrix organisation

The ideal candidate is a strategic, pragmatic, and people-focused leader who creates clarity, empowers others, and holds teams accountable for results. You should have a strong balance between strategic thinking and operational focus, combined with a continuous drive to improve and deliver results.

Requirements:

- Experience in large manufacturing operations department management, preferably in food processing/manufacturing

- Demonstrated success leading complex, multi-site manufacturing organisations across multiple countries and cultures

- Proven leadership and management skills with the ability to develop high-performing teams and future leaders

- Strong business and financial acumen with experience managing operational and financial performance

- Leadership of continuous improvement processes, including cost reduction/savings programs, innovation, and customer complaint resolution

- Food safety and quality management experience within the plant environment and in managing customer relationships

- Strategic project leadership experience involving high-complexity, cross-functional initiatives

- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills with experience operating effectively within a global matrix organisation

- Fluency in English required; additional European language capability preferred

## Skills

### Required
- manufacturing operations management
- food safety and quality management
- leadership and management
- continuous improvement
- strategic project leadership
- stakeholder management

### Nice to have
- additional European language capability

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