Process Excellence & Business Integration Lead- Innovate to Forecast

Business Unit Overview

Headquartered in Lakeville, Minn., Post Consumer Brands, a business unit of Post Holdings, Inc., is dedicated to providing people and their pets with delicious food choices for every taste and budget. The company’s portfolio includes beloved brands such as Honey Bunches of Oats, PEBBLES, Grape-Nuts and Malt-O-Meal cereal, and Peter Pan peanut butter, as well as Rachael Ray Nutrish, Kibbles ‘n Bits and 9Lives dog and cat food. As a company committed to high standards of quality and to our values, we are driven by one idea: To make lives better by making delicious food accessible for all. For more information about our brands, visit www.postconsumerbrands.com and follow us on LinkedIn for the latest news.

Brand

Post Consumer Brands recently acquired several iconic pet food brands, venturing into a new market while remaining true to our purpose to provide delicious and accessible food that our consumers love. We’re always searching the center store for the next exciting product to add to our portfolio, and right now, we’re growing and need passionate, driven individuals with diverse perspectives to help us reach greater heights. That’s where you come in. Join a team where your voice is not only heard but valued. Make a real impact on brands enjoyed by millions of people and their pets.

At Post Consumer Brands, we take pride in our longstanding legacy of making one of every five breakfast cereals families eat daily. Today, we’re just as focused on our future as we expand our grocery business with different shelf-stable foods, including snacks and peanut butter. We are committed to providing accessible and delicious food for families, and we’re always searching the center store for the next exciting product to add to our portfolio. As we soar to new heights, we need creative, determined individuals from all walks of life to join our team, where your unique perspective and ideas are acknowledged and valued. Be a part of a company that empowers you to make a difference that’s evident on grocery store shelves and families’ tables across North America.

Location Description

Post Consumer Brands corporate headquarters in Lakeville, Minn. is about 20 miles south of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Lakeville has all the benefits of smaller town living with access to everything a large metropolitan area has to offer. Join more than 400 team members collaborating on the two-building campus to help put breakfast on the tables of millions of consumers in North America.

Responsibilities

Job Description: Innovate to Forecast (ITF) Process Excellence & Business Integration Lead

This Role Will Focus On Key Capabilities And Business Processes In R&D Product And Packaging Development, Regulatory, Product Lifecycle Management, Product Commercialization, And Consumer Affairs. The Candidate Must Possess Working Knowledge Of Process Capabilities Within These Business Areas. The Process Excellence & Business Integration Lead Has Three Primary Areas Of Focus At PCB:

• Preparing and enabling PCB to develop repeatable, scalable, and standardized integration readiness for mergers & acquisitions (M&A)
• Driving a business process focused culture
• Developing and maintaining process standard documentation, maps, and best practices to drive cost savings and efficiency
  
  
  

The Process Lead will demonstrate results through facilitating and developing the documentation of key business processes narratives and maps, identification of process standardization opportunities and workstream leadership leveraged during major systems or process initiatives, and leading or facilitating creation of standard work/process where none exists.

This position is a key member of the Process Excellence and Business Integration team who is responsible for leading the PCB strategy for planning and execution of M&A integrations as well as enabling process capabilities and best practices. The Process Excellence Lead will drive continuous improvement, process documentation, and installation of new business requirements, as well as leadership for the planning and execution of M&A integration for their assigned area of accountability in the Innovate to Forecast workstream. This role will focus on key capabilities in R&D product and packaging development, regulatory, product lifecycle management, product commercialization, and consumer affairs. This individual will continuously improve business processes and integration strategy and priorities from a business function point of view and will work closely with the Executive team and functional business leaders to ensure impactful process re-engineering, and timely business integrations related to mergers & acquisitions. The Process Excellence and Integration lead will influence teams focused on our most core business process work-streams defined within the Innovate to Forecast space. The Process Excellence Lead will build and foster relationships across the enterprise in process disciplines and improvement methodologies that yield desired outcomes, including realization of business benefits and impact.

This role will report directly to the Sr. Manager Process Excellence and Business Integration.

Working Location: Hybrid

• This role is located at the Lakeville, MN Corporate office
• Typical hybrid schedule includes 3 days in-office with remote flexibility up to 2 days a week.
  
  
  

Responsibilities:

• Champion and operationalize business process management methodology and capabilities.
• In an integration scenario, understand current PCB business processes and quickly identify gaps and differences between PCB and acquired company. Assist in identifying synergy savings that can be realized through process/system rationalization.
• Actively participate in a process management center of excellence that is focused on institutionalizing PCB business process knowledge and evolving the Process Excellence practice for PCB.
• Lead the workstream level discovery, planning, and execution of integrations, including evaluation of current state process, future state process design, gap analysis, business requirements, and end state operating model design.
• Drive business process improvement through process documentation and partnership with functional process owners. Expose inefficiencies embedded in current process flows, or caused by systems capability gaps, and recommend/sell the need for and benefit of change.
• Core Member of business acquisitions/integrations teams from a functional workstream point of view, keeping in lock step with Business and IT leadership on the impact to process and technology to enable integration timeliness and success.
• Support acquisition synergies through process integration.
• Implement standard work via standardized content, behaviors, and communication across the M&A and process excellence disciplines.
• Collaborate with key business and IT leaders on systems installations/replacements and integrate with our business processes as performed by functional staff.
• Lead teams in challenging the status quo, demonstrating the need for change, and driving change initiatives. Proactively anticipate and prevent problems that could result from changes in our processes.
• Develop, socialize, and maintain formal process maps and documentation for assigned work-streams.
• Use metrics or business specific analysis to drive process improvement, reduce cost, drive growth & meet business goals.
• Provide expert thought leadership in your field and work with limited direction, using additional research and interpretation to identify issues or problems.
  
  
  

Qualifications

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

• Strong business process competency in product lifecycle management, R&D product and packaging development regulatory, consumer affairs, and product commercialization.
• System and process focused mindset with ability to understand how technology can support and enable.
• Strong cross-functional business acumen.
• Ability and willingness to collaborate across multiple functional areas to achieve desired integrated business results.
• Very strong process orientation, able to understand detailed processes and to identify process synergies between teams, and between acquired business and current PCB processes, to create business value.
• Drive fact-based improvement decisions within the team and across the company.
• Develop effective cross-functional relationships based on trust, and alignment with business goals.
• Demonstrated analytical and critical thinking skills.
• Advanced skills in gap identification, escalation, and evaluation of trade-off options and impacts.
• Demonstrated ability in defining complex business problems and working with key stakeholders to identify possible solutions.
• Ability to attack complex business issues and simplify decision-making and execution.
  
  
  

Education & Experience:

• B.S. in Business, Engineering, Food Science, Supply Chain or related field. MBA or advanced degree preferred.
• Understanding of end-to-end business processes across the innovate to forecast workstream - product lifecycle management, R&D product and packaging development regulatory, consumer affairs, and product commercialization.
• 3+ Years’ experience in project/process management, operations management, or similar experience.
• Prior merger and acquisition experience in a business lead role desired.
• Experience in high-level process design and systems implementation and support with a track record of accomplishment in large, complex systems environments.
  
  
  

Key Characteristics:

• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to develop and foster relationships at all levels of the organization
• Organized and process driven
• Highly self-motivated, self-directed, and attentive to detail
• Demonstrated team player
• Results oriented
• Courageous
• Able to lead without direct authority and influence across operating functions and levels
• Learning agile in ambiguous situations; conceptual openness and willingness to learn