Sr Manager Business Operations
Post Consumer Brands
Lakeville, Minnesota
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 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 and Facebook for the latest news.
Brand:At Post Consumer Brands, we’ve spent generations showing up for families, starting with breakfast, the most important meal of the day. Our cereals have become a trusted part of daily routines, helping spark conversations, fuel busy mornings, and create everyday moments that bring families closer together, including their furry four-legged family members, who have recently become a part of our story. As families have evolved, so have we. What began at the breakfast table has expanded into snacks, peanut butter, and pet food, because caring for a family means feeding every part of it. With the addition of several iconic pet brands, we’ve extended our purpose: to make high-quality, accessible food for everyone under the same roof.
This phase is still new, and that’s what makes it exciting. As we continue to grow across grocery and pet, we’re looking for people who care about good food, thoughtful work, and the kind of impact that stretches from store shelves to kitchen tables, and food bowls, across the country.
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:Drive Strategy. Shape the Network. Fuel Growth.
We’re seeking a Senior Manager of Business Operations (OBM) to partner with our Business Leadership Teams and build operational and manufacturing strategies that anticipate what’s next, while unlocking new opportunities to drive EBITDA and business performance.
What You’ll Impact
Cost
- Lead network optimization efforts that expand operations capabilities.
- Strengthen manufacturing compliance, with a focus on schedule attainment and pack-floor reliability.
- Ensure innovation has a manufacturing strategy that balances cost, feasibility, and agility.
Growth
- Expand total capacity through improved rates, up-time, and enhanced capabilities.
- Increase packaging flexibility to support evolving product sizes, combinations, and innovation paths.
Service
- Collaborate across S&OP to align conversion costs, supply, and service levels.
- Offer creative operational options during unexpected supply disruptions, helping the organization stay resilient and responsive.
What You’ll Do
- Lead the charge to deliver low-cost production and world-class service from order through delivery.
- Partner with Business Leadership Teams to ensure the right growth, profit, and quality plans are in place to meet targets.
- Identify gaps in production and supply chain capabilities that could hinder marketing execution and recommend solutions directly to senior leadership.
- Build future-focused asset strategies to support long-term business objectives.
- Develop high-quality business cases for major operational decisions, presenting trade-offs and recommendations clearly and confidently.
- Ensure new business opportunities launch with the most cost-effective manufacturing strategy, whether through existing assets or expanded capabilities.
- Engage with the broader leadership community to bring in best practices, innovations, and new ways of working.
- Participate in GM technology forums to align solutions with business needs.
- Step in for the Director of Business Operations as needed in business meetings.
Work Location: Hybrid 3 days per week in office - Lakeville, MN
Qualifications:What You Bring
Education & Experience
- Bachelor of Science in Engineering or at least 10 years of Operations Management & General Management experience.
- A minimum of 10 years in operations management within a CPG environment.
- Expertise in at least one engineering/manufacturing discipline (Production, Packaging, Controls, Mechanical, or Electrical).
- Strong understanding of complex processes, manufacturing technology, and equipment.
- Supply Chain experience strongly preferred.
Skills & Leadership Strengths
- Exceptional critical, analytical, strategic, and creative thinking.
- Strong communicator who adapts easily across all levels of the organization.
- Effective leader with proven abilities in team direction, prioritization, and decision-making.
- Experience influencing cross-functional partners and moving key initiatives forward, even amid ambiguity.
- High integrity, strong business acumen, and demonstrated success in building trust-based partnerships.
- Ability to lead complex problem-solving efforts and develop innovative, actionable solutions.
- Skilled in developing, interpreting, and communicating operational performance results and metrics.