**Brand:** Post Consumer Brands **Categories:** Marketing **Locations:** Lakeville, Minnesota **Position Type:** Regular Full-Time **Remote Eligible:** No **Req ID:** 28579 **Job Description** **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 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, more recently, 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. **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** At Post Consumer Brands our Insights & Strategy team represents the voice of our consumers, uncovering what matters most to them and translating their attitudes and behaviors into winning strategies that shape the future of our brands. In this role, you will lead the development and execution of learning plans for our Adult & Nutrition Business Unit, supporting beloved cereal brands like Honey Bunches of Oats®, Premier Protein®, Great Grains®, and Grape-Nuts®. Working with a cross functional team of consumer-centric professionals, you will uncover actionable insights that unlock evolving consumer needs, fuel innovation, optimize messaging, improve brand health, and drive value-added, fact-based decision-making. You will design and execute qualitative and quantitative studies that keep the voice of the consumer at the center of all our research initiatives. This is not just a research role. It’s a strategic seat at the table. You will partner with Marketing, R&D, Category Management, Analytics, and Sales partners to translate insights into action, helping Post achieve annual objectives and stay ahead in our dynamic and competitive grocery categories. **In This Role You Will** + **Lead Strategic Research Initiatives** : Design and execute qualitative and quantitative studies that uncover consumer motivations, attitudes, and behaviors. + **Champion the Voice of the Consumer** : Bring consumer stories to life through compelling narratives that influence brand positioning, product development, and marketing campaigns. + **Drive Innovation** : Support new product development, restages, and packaging improvements from concept to launch by identifying unmet needs and validating ideas with target audiences. + **Collaborate Cross-Functionally** : Work closely with cross-functional partners at all levels to ensure insights are embedded throughout the decision-making process. + **Monitor Trends** : Stay ahead of cultural, category, and consumer trends to identify growth opportunities and potential disruptions. + **Become a Trusted Advisor** : Leverage objective learning across projects to provide holistic guidance to brand teams and optimize business decisions. + **Positively contribute to a collaborative and unique, Post Consumer Brands culture:** Live PCB core values every day and assist in making the Insights & Strategy Team and the broader Commercial Organization a great place to work. **Qualifications** **Education:** + Bachelor’s degree required, MBA is a plus. **Experience:** + 5+ years Insights experience (inclusive of marketing, innovation, agency, supplier). + Preferred: Experience in the consumer-packaged goods industry, ideally breakfast categories. **Other Characteristics:** + A passion for understanding people and translating data into meaningful stories. + Strong strategic aptitude and understanding of research methodologies across a variety of methods (e.g., human centric, ethnography, JTBD, innovation qualification, packaging, marketing communications / advertising assessment through live and virtual qual and quant research). + A collaborative mindset with strong partner and supplier management skills. + Experience in synthesizing data across multiple sources and teams (primary and secondary sources) to create actionable insights and holistic stories. + Able to effectively communicate verbally and in writing to influence and advocate for consumer-centric decision making. + Familiar with foundational consumer insights and translating them into to brand, innovation, and communication strategy. + Proficiency in developing learning plans and maintaining research budget allocations. **Location** : + Hybrid with weekly on-site requirements (3 Days) at our headquarters in Lakeville, MN. The pay range for this position is $89,506 - $132,468 per year. Post Holdings provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, status as a covered veteran and any other category protected under applicable federal, state, provincial and local laws. Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)