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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: This role is a key contributor to developing sales strategies, communicating key brand initiatives, and driving in-market execution for businesses in the Pet portfolio. The Assistant Manager will partner with cross-functional teams working closely with Sales, Marketing, Finance, Project Management, Demand, and Supply Planning to provide inputs to help drive strategic decision making across our businesses.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Translate national brand strategies, marketing plans, and insights into sales strategies by key customers and channels.
- Provide support for new item launches and associated GTMS and SKU optimizations.
- Influences the development of Long Range and Annual Operating Plans (quota, trade, situation assessments) from a Category, Customer, Channel, and competitive lens
- Contribute to the creation of channel specific sales fundamental objectives to achieve priorities and sales controllable objectives: distribution, pricing, shelving, merchandising, and new items.
- Assist in the development of national sales presentations and tools that are rich in category and shopper insights that help Field Sales execute the initiatives in the marketplace with excellence.
- Communicate key Category, Customer, and Competitive insights into volume forecast.
- Assist in the development of trade promotion strategies, trade merchandising plans, and major trade initiatives.
- Assist in the creation of materials for National Sales Meetings and Sales webcasts.
- Lead the development of displays and seasonal execution across the Pet portfolio.
Qualifications:
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Education
- BA/BS degree required.
Experience
- At least 5 years of CPG company experience; preferably brand marketing, customer marketing, or cross-functional experience is preferred.
KEY SKILLS/CAPABILITIES
- Recognize and develop sustainable solutions while considering the long-term and short-term impact of actions when making choices.
- Identify, research, and analyze problems and recommend optimal solutions.
- Effective written and verbal communication across all levels of the organization.
- Set a high standard of performance while pursuing goals with a high sense of urgency.
- Work well with others; high levels of self-awareness, empathy; and ability to reach consensus.
- Be comfortable and thrive under ambiguous and complex situations; adapt behaviors and thinking when responding to changing demands or unexpected situations.
- Naturally curious and strives to be a continuous learner.
- Strong analytical skills (Excel, Word, PowerPoint): Experience pulling, analyzing, and drawing insights and recommendations from consumption data (IRI/Nielsen).
Work Location
- In-office (Lakeville, MN) with a hybrid schedule.
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