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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.
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: We are a passionate Innovation Team that plays a key role in driving growth for our category-leading brands by developing and delivering against a focused, yet significant pipeline of initiatives. Our approach blends the agility and creativity of a start-up, with the scale and resources of a large corporation.
The Senior Brand Manager, Innovation is a meaningful leader of innovation strategy, idea development, and business commercialization. In this role, you will be responsible for leading cross-functional teams to deliver product ideas through the innovation process from ideation to launch.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Work with the Pet Leadership team to ensure innovation strategies are aligned with business and brand strategy.
- Develop a balanced pipeline of innovation that drives incremental and sustained growth
- Lead with a blend of disciplined management practices with entrepreneurial behavior, skills, and mindset to make intuitive strategic decisions while appropriately managing uncertainty and risk
- Lead a diverse, cross-functional best-in-class team that will be responsible for shepherding platforms and product concepts through the innovation process, considering strategic, consumer, technical, and business viability.
- Consumer: Develop and validate concepts that deliver on key consumer needs and align with the brand strategy
- Business: Develop strong business cases, identifying volumes, pricing, product costs, and trade/consumer support scenarios, to ensure opportunity meets financial objectives and hurdles
- Technical: Partner with our technical and operations teams to ensure we have a viable solution that meets the needs of consumers and can be produced
- Align and influence leadership to make optimal prioritization and commercialization decisions.
- Represent innovation with multiple stakeholders including brand marketing, operations, finance, and retail customers.
- Manage a small team of innovation professionals to meet innovation goals
- Manage the innovation metrics that support overall profitability.
EDUCATION
- Bachelor’s degree required; MBA preferred
EXPERIENCE
- 7 + years in the consumer-packaged goods industry, preferably in the pet category
- 3 + years of brand marketing experience with proven innovation success; either new product development, creation of new business models, start-up experience, or other entrepreneurial ventures (food industry experience preferred)
- Previous experience managing a team
OTHER CHARACTERISTICS
- Proven experience in innovation management
- Proposes and executes plans that add value and create competitive advantage based on knowledge of how the business works
- Previous experience managing a PNL
- Previous experience launching multiple new products, including at least one major product from inception to launch
- Proven cross-functional leader with the ability to drive momentum in a matrixed organization.
- Passion to take initiative and drive change
- Persists despite set-backs and works to gain acceptance for ideas
- Rallies behind the vision and exhibits optimism
- Craft a compelling story to support a recommended strategic direction
- Strong analytical capability and ability to lead/influence a cross-functional team
- A mindset that thrives in conditions of significant uncertainty
- Sets a high standard for performance. Pursues goals with purpose and a sense of urgency.
- Comfortable with ambiguity and excitement about envisioning the future
WORK LOCATION
- In-office (Lakeville, MN) with a hybrid work schedule
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