**Brand:** Post Consumer Brands **Categories:** Marketing **Locations:** Lakeville, Minnesota **Position Type:** Regular Full-Time **Remote Eligible:** No **Req ID:** 28627 **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** 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** PCB is seeking a Senior Associate Brand Manager– Foodservice (SrABM-FS), to join our Business-to-Business (B2B) team to support our Ready-to-Eat (RTE) Cereal, Granola, Hot Cereal, Peanut Butter, and Pet businesses with a primary focus on our Foodservice channel and additional support for our other Non-Retail Channels. PCB is investing for growth within our Non-Retail channels and this new position was created to help support and facilitate growth in these under-indexed channels that are beaming with opportunity. The SrABM-FS will manage the 4Ps of Marketing (Pricing, Product, Placement, and Promotion) and partner with Sales to support key customer initiatives and presentations to drive growth across the business. We are looking for a self-starter, able to navigate and work collaboratively with a broad cross-functional team, with aspirations to manage additional marketing personnel in the future. The SrABM-FS will be officed out of Post Consumer Brand’s headquarters in Lakeville, MN, and will be eligible for a hybrid schedule working from the corporate office at least 3 days a week (preferably Tues – Thurs). Travel will be limited to industry events and internal meetings, up to 10%, but likely one trip a quarter. #Lihybrid **Responsibilities and Accountabilities** + **Product** + Working with the Foodservice Sales Planning Manager and Commercial Insights/brand teams, analyze market trends, customer needs, and competitive landscape to identify opportunities and gaps for new and/or existing products in the category. Utilize the data to communicate the story of the strength of the category and brand. + Act as business lead for Non-Retail within PCBs commercialization process. Develop Charters and participate in Stage Gate process. Work closely with the commercialization cross functional team to successfully bring new items and package formats to market. + Responsible for the semi-annual formal SKU Rationalization process for the Foodservice (Non-Retail) Team. + **Promotion** : + Facilitate the creation of Sales Support Materials with targeted selling propositions utilizing the PCB Studio, our in-house ad agency at your disposal. + Lead the Foodservice Digital/Social Media Strategy + Manage the PCB Foodservice Website content direction and e-commerce opportunities, including GS1 Compliance. + Effectively communicate marketing materials to the sales team and key customers on time and within budget. + **Pricing:** + Working with Finance and the Foodservice Sales Planning Manager, analyze competitive pricing trends and COGS to maximize profitability while effectively positioning the categories for growth. + Develop, implement, monitor, and revise Foodservice product promotional spend to ensure profitable category volume growth. + **Placement** : + Support the Foodservice Sales Planning Manager with the monthly Forecast by providing updates on promotional activity that would significantly change demand. + **Strategy** : + Implement and support development of the category strategy, positioning, value proposition and roadmap, aligning with the company's overall goals and objectives. + Perform Market Research using 3 rd parties as well as feedback from current and potential operators. + Stay updated on the latest trends, technologies, and best practices in the category and the industry and provide insights and recommendations to the management and the team. + Levers marketplace insights to provide strategic direction for brand growth across all relevant segments + Provide Foodservice business inputs for monthly and quarterly business meetings including Product Marketing Review, Executive Commercial Review, Equity & Innovation, Stage gate/Commercialization and Quarterly Business Review. + Administer reporting on business performance with Finance, Marketing, and Demand Planning departments to increase organizational knowledge and awareness of the Foodservice channel. + Working with the Sr Director Foodservice, and Foodservice Sales Planning Manager, help develop and execute the annual planning strategy process. **Qualifications** **Education** + Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Advertising, or Business required + MBA preferred **Required Experience** + Minimum of 5 years of foodservice marketing experience in product/brand/category marketing. + Proven commercialization experience — including go-to-market strategy, launch execution, and post-launch performance tracking. + Demonstrated analytical expertise in leveraging market insights to shape data-informed strategies. + Proven ability to lead complex projects from concept to execution, with clear communication to cross-functional stakeholders. + Previous Management Experience preferred **Other Characteristics** + Ability to work with cross-functional partners to drive business results + Self-motivated with ability to manage multiple / diverse projects + Critical thinker with strong, proven analytical skills + Demonstrated ability to tell the story behind the insights + Keen judgment and problem-solving skills with an ability to adapt and prioritize in a fast-changing work environment. + Excellent organization and written / verbal communication skills + Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (i.e., Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook) 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. 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