Demand and Supply Planning Process Integration Lead

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. Post also provides private label solutions to customers in pet food, cereal, nut butters and granola. 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 or Facebook for the latest news.

Location Description

Post Consumer Brands corporate headquarters in Lakeville, Minnesota, 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

About the Role

At Post Consumer Brands (PCB), our processes fuel our ability to grow, innovate, and successfully integrate new businesses. As the Demand & Supply Planning Process Excellence & Business Integration Lead, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping how our planning capabilities scale, especially as we grow through mergers and acquisitions.

This role sits at the intersection of strategy, process, and execution. You'll help define how we standardize, document, and continuously improve demand planning, supply planning, and production scheduling processes, while also leading critical integration work that ensures newly acquired businesses are set up for long‑term success. You'll partner closely with senior leaders and cross‑functional teams to drive efficiency, unlock synergies, and embed a strong process‑driven culture across PCB.

This role is Hybrid in Lakeville, MN - Onsite 3 days a week, Remote 2 days a week.

Key Responsibilities

• Champion and operationalize business process management methodologies across demand planning, supply planning, and production scheduling.
• Lead process excellence workstreams for mergers & acquisitions, including current‑state assessment, future‑state design, gap analysis, and operating model definition.
• Quickly assess differences between PCB and acquired company processes, identifying opportunities for standardization, system rationalization, and synergy realization.
• Develop, socialize, and maintain clear process documentation, narratives, and maps to drive consistency, scalability, and efficiency.
• Partner with functional process owners to uncover inefficiencies, recommend improvements, and support change initiatives.
• Serve as a core member of M&A integration teams, aligning closely with Business and IT leaders to ensure timely, successful integrations.
• Support system installations and replacements by ensuring business processes and technology are tightly integrated.
• Drive continuous improvement using metrics and business insights to reduce cost, enable growth, and deliver measurable results.
• Lead without direct authority, challenging the status quo, influencing stakeholders, and guiding teams through change.

Qualifications

What We're Looking For

Experience & Education

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Finance, Supply Chain, or a related field; MBA or similar advanced degree preferred.
• 3+ years of experience in process management, project management, operations, or related disciplines.
• Prior experience supporting mergers and acquisitions in a business‑led role strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated success designing and implementing processes within large, complex systems environments.

Knowledge & Skills

• Strong expertise in demand and supply planning processes, including integrated business planning, inventory management, co‑manufacturing, and production scheduling.
• End‑to‑end understanding of how systems and technology enable business processes.
• Proven analytical and critical‑thinking skills with the ability to simplify complex problems.
• Ability to identify gaps, evaluate trade‑offs, and make fact‑based recommendations.
• Strong cross‑functional business acumen and stakeholder partnership skills.

Key Characteristics

• Process‑driven, organized, and detail‑oriented.
• Self‑motivated and comfortable working independently with limited direction.
• Results‑oriented, courageous, and comfortable leading through influence.
• Collaborative relationship‑builder who thrives in a team‑based environment.

Why You'll Love This Role

• Big impact, real visibility: Your work directly shapes how PCB operates, scales, and integrates new businesses.
• Enterprise influence: Partner with executive leaders and teams across supply chain, manufacturing, finance, procurement, HR, and IT.
• Growth through challenge: Tackle complex, high‑stakes initiatives that stretch your skills and expand your leadership influence.
• Purpose‑driven culture: Join a company that values ownership, agility, and continuous improvement, where your ideas truly matter.
• Big company opportunity. Small company attitude.

Ready to Make an Impact?

If you're energized by process excellence, thrive in complex environments, and want to help shape how a growing organization integrates and operates, we'd love to hear from you. Apply today and help build the future of Post Consumer Brands, one smart process at a time.

The pay range for this position is $99,119 - $154,626 per year.