Brand: Post Consumer Brands

Categories: Supply Chain

Locations: Lakeville, Minnesota

Position Type: Regular Full-Time

Remote Eligible: No

Req ID: 24212

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 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 Overview: Under the direction of the Sr. Director of Distribution, the Master Trainer delivers performance improvement through championing standard job processes and best practices. The position serves as a Master Trainer for training programs at multiple locations, oversees train-the-trainer programs and serves as the subject matter expert ensuring distribution center safety, quality, and continuous improvement. The Master Trainer must be able to establish credibility and deliver high-energy programs through curriculum design/customization and project management that are required to satisfy the needs of a wide range of cultures and working professionals. Training areas include, document creation, compliance, process improvement and technical, as well as professional development education and special initiatives designed to improve the performance of individual staff. This role will partner with many departments to determine current and future skills and needs, liaising with peers in ensuring the successful delivery of innovative learning solutions; always ensuring our business expectations are exceeded through measurable return on investment. Working Location: Hybrid This role is located at the Lakeville, MN Corporate office Typical hybrid schedule includes 3 days in-office with remote flexibility up to 2 days a week. #LI-hybrid Responsibilities and Accountabilities: Oversees site training program to ensure that training gaps are identified and plans in place to address annual goals and long-term strategy. Verifies proper methods are being used to effectively meet business/site needs. Works alongside leaders and peers to share best practices and drive program consistency across manufacturing sites. Provide work direction, leadership and a shared vision to a team or direct reports. Trains job instruction trainers; develop operations employees to meet and/or exceed performance expectations and conduct company standards for personal safety, productivity, quality, food safety, sanitation, environmental, regulatory compliance and SQF. Assesses needs of the organization assisting in identifying distribution center performance gaps and develop training strategies to close those gaps. Populate learning management system and could assist in developing operator task lists and job break down sheets. Adapts to changing business needs to maintain quality training. Develops, tracks and assess progress on training plan and schedule. Helps establish an “environment of success”, based on mutual respect, promotion of company culture, continuous learning, and operational excellence. Maintain harmonious relationships between shifts by effective communications and shift transfer meetings; available to occasionally work other than regular shifts such as holidays and weekends. Qualifications Education: Bachelor’s degree in business-related discipline or equivalent experience required. Experience with Integrated manufacturing systems is required with previous involvement in digital transformation preferred. Functional manufacturing/distribution systems knowledge. Experience: Excellent facilitator/trainer using adult learning principles, design, create and develop learning solutions to meet learning objectives. Would prefer a minimum of 3-5 years of combined related experience, with a preference in food warehousing environment. 3-5 years’ experience in direct people management associated to a training function, inclusive of instructional design and planning teams preferred, Proficient at using Learning Management Systems; experience with remote and e-Learning a plus. Expertise in the development, delivery and evaluation of training initiatives to support ongoing improvements in: knowledge, skills, processes and engagement. Highly detailed, organized, efficient, and deadline driven on all project and administrative tasks. Superior project management skills to steward a team through a project. Proficient with PowerPoint and Microsoft Office (Excel, Word). Must be able to read, write, and communicate in the English language. Travel Expectation: 25 - 33%

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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)