Brand: ['Post Consumer Brands']
Categories: Quality
Locations: Lakeville, Minnesota
Position Type: Regular Full-Time
Req ID: 31870
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
At Post Consumer Brands, we believe meaningful careers offer both the resources to do big things and the opportunity to make your mark. We are looking for a strategic, hands-on quality leader to help shape how we protect food safety, strengthen external partnerships, and continuously improve performance across our co-manufacturing and warehousing network.
About the Role
As Senior Manager - External Quality & Food Safety (Co-Manufacturing & Warehousing), you will provide strategic and executional leadership across domestic and international external manufacturing and third-party warehousing locations. Your work will support both Pet Food and Human Food businesses, helping ensure compliance with food safety, quality, and regulatory requirements while enabling commercialization, network growth, and continuous improvement.
This is an opportunity to lead a specialized team, influence partners across the external supply chain, and build stronger systems, metrics, and ways of working. You will collaborate closely with Quality & Food Safety, Operations, Supply Chain, Procurement, R&D, and external partners to turn risk insights into action.
Key Responsibilities
Qualifications
What We’re Looking For
Why You'll Love This Role
This is a rare opportunity to shape the future of External Quality & Food Safety across a diverse co-manufacturing and warehousing network spanning both Human Food and Pet Food businesses. You'll have the chance to build stronger systems, elevate performance standards, and influence quality outcomes across every stage of the external supply chain, from product commercialization through distribution. As part of a team in transformation, you'll help define new ways of working, strengthen strategic partner relationships, and implement best-in-class risk management and performance programs.
If you're energized by leading through influence, solving complex challenges, driving meaningful change, and leaving a visible mark on a growing organization, this role offers the scope, autonomy, and career-building experience to do just that, all within a collaborative culture that values both big-company opportunity and a close-knit, team-first mindset.
Location & Travel
This role is based in Lakeville, Minnesota, and requires the ability to work effectively with colleagues and external partners across locations.
Travel within the United States and internationally may be required up to 25% of the time to support external manufacturing and warehousing partners, audits, relationship management, launches, and business priorities.
Ready to Make an Impact
If you are energized by transformation, passionate about food safety and quality, and ready to lead through collaboration and influence, we would love to hear from you. Bring your experience, curiosity, and big-picture thinking to Post Consumer Brands, where you can help build stronger partnerships, protect trusted products, and create lasting value across our external supply chain.
The pay range for this position is $102,093 - $159,265 per year.
Post Holdings, Inc., headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, is a consumer packaged goods holding company operating in the center-of-the-store, refrigerated, foodservice, food ingredient, pet food and private brand food categories.
Through its Post Consumer Brands business, Post is a leader in the North American ready-to-eat cereal category offering a broad portfolio including recognized brands such as Honey Bunches of Oats®, Pebbles™, Great Grains® and Malt-O-Meal® bag cereal. Post also is a leader in the United Kingdom ready-to-eat cereal category with the iconic Weetabix® brand.
As leader in refrigerated foods, Post brings innovative, value-added egg and refrigerated potato products to the foodservice channel and the retail refrigerated side dish category, offering side dishes and egg, sausage and cheese products through the Bob Evans®, Better’n Eggs®, Simply Potatoes® and Crystal Farms® brands.
Post participates in the private brand food category through its investment in 8th Avenue Food & Provisions, a leading, private brand centric, consumer products holding company. For more information, visit www.postholdings.com.
