Manager, Commercialization
Post Holdings
Manager, Commercialization
Post Holdings
CPG holding company pursuing acquisitions
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. Post also provides private label solutions to customers in pet food, cereal, nut butters and granola. 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 or Facebook for the latest news.
Post Consumer Brands corporate headquarters in Lakeville, Minnesota, 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.
Manager, Commercialization – Private Label
Post Consumer Brands | Lakeville, MN | Hybrid
Turn Ideas Into Products Consumers Love
Great products don’t happen by accident. They take strong leadership, disciplined execution, customer partnership, and teams that know how to turn an idea into reality.
As Manager, Commercialization – Private Label, you’ll lead the work that brings private label cereal initiatives from concept to successful market launch. You’ll connect customer needs with business priorities, guide a diverse portfolio of commercialization projects, and bring cross-functional teams together to deliver the right solutions on time and with excellence.
This is a highly visible leadership role where you’ll influence both what we deliver and how we deliver it. You’ll oversee new product introductions, customer-specific SKUs, product changes, cost savings, harmonization initiatives, and discontinuations while leading and developing a team of Product Change Managers.
If you’re a strategic, highly organized leader who thrives on solving complex problems, creating clarity, and turning plans into results, this could be a great next step.
What You’ll Do
Lead end-to-end commercialization of private label initiatives, from concept through market launch.
Manage a broad portfolio of new product introductions, customer-specific SKUs, product changes, cost savings, harmonization initiatives, and discontinuations.
Serve as a key commercialization partner to customers, aligning requirements, expectations, timelines, risks, and project deliverables.
Partner closely with Sales, Marketing, Finance, Operations, R&D, Demand Planning, Supply Chain, Procurement, Manufacturing, Quality & Regulatory, Graphics, Master Data, Legal, and Customer Solutions to keep projects moving and aligned with business objectives.
Lead, coach, and develop Product Change Managers, creating clear expectations, providing feedback, and supporting professional growth.
Drive accountability and alignment across stakeholders to achieve project objectives and business goals.
Anticipate risks, remove obstacles, and navigate competing priorities, including accelerated projects requiring agility and creative problem-solving.
Provide clear visibility into the portfolio through project updates, performance metrics, issue escalation, and leadership reporting.
Serve as a project management expert for the portfolio, championing standardized processes, effective tools, and best practices.
Challenge the status quo and lead continuous improvement efforts that increase speed, efficiency, effectiveness, accountability, and customer satisfaction.
What You’ll Bring
You’re a strong project and people leader who can see both the big picture and the details required to get there. You build credibility quickly, create alignment across functions, and know how to influence decisions even when you don’t have direct authority.
You’re comfortable operating in a fast-paced CPG environment where priorities can change, customers have high expectations, and successful execution requires collaboration across commercial, technical, and operational teams.
Just as importantly, you develop people. You create an environment where team members take ownership, solve problems, and continue to grow.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Operations, Food Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
7–10 years of experience in consumer packaged goods, commercialization, project management, product change management, operations, supply chain, customer management, or a related business function.
At least 3 years of people management experience.
Demonstrated experience leading complex, cross-functional projects from initiation through execution.
Strong project management and organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
Excellent verbal, written, and presentation communication skills.
Demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders, build alignment, and drive accountability without direct authority.
Ability to navigate ambiguity, change, and competing priorities with a proactive, solution-oriented approach.
Preferred Qualifications
PMP certification.
Experience with private label products and commercialization processes.
Knowledge of food manufacturing, supply chain operations, and product lifecycle management.
Experience leading continuous improvement or process optimization initiatives.
Why You’ll Love This Role
Make a visible impact. Help shape customer-facing initiatives and influence the growth of our private label cereal business.
Bring ideas to life. See projects move from initial concept to products reaching consumers across the country.
Lead across the business. Work with an extensive network of customer, commercial, technical, supply chain, and manufacturing partners.
Build a strong team. Develop talented project leaders while creating greater ownership, accountability, and consistency.
Improve how work gets done. Bring your ideas and experience to processes that directly affect speed, execution, and customer satisfaction.
Think big and stay agile. Bring big ambitions to a culture that combines big-company opportunity with a small-company attitude.
Location & Work Schedule
This position is based in Lakeville, Minnesota, with a hybrid schedule requiring onsite work Tuesday through Thursday, three days per week.
Ready to Make an Impact?
Bring your commercialization expertise, customer focus, project leadership, and passion for developing people to Post Consumer Brands. Help turn great ideas into successful products while building stronger teams, better processes, and lasting customer partnerships.
Bring your ideas. Lead the execution. See the impact on shelf.
CPG holding company pursuing acquisitions
Post Holdings, Inc. is a consumer packaged goods holding company that grows its business mainly through acquisitions. It oversees a portfolio of food and beverage products, food processing, and pet care brands, built through strategic purchases such as Perfection Pet in 2023. The company’s products reach consumers across multiple segments by acquiring and integrating brands rather than developing everything in-house. The core way its products work is through a diversified brand portfolio under one corporate umbrella, allowing cross-brand distribution, scale, and operating efficiency rather than a single product line. Compared with peers, Post Holdings emphasizes growth through continuous acquisitions to broaden its footprint and diversify revenue streams across categories. Its stated goal is to expand its market position by acquiring, integrating, and growing brands in the consumer packaged goods space to create a larger and more diversified business.
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