VP Quality & Food Safety
Apply NowCompany: Post Consumer Brands
Location: Lakeville, MN 55044
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
This is an exciting opportunity to lead food safety and quality for the Post Consumer Brands Grocery business, currently comprised of cereal and peanut butter at Post Consumer Brands (PCB), with potential to acquire other categories. The Grocery QFS organization includes a corporate QFS team and QFS staff across 8 plants. The PCB Grocery business includes Post brands such as Honey Bunches of Oats, Fruity Pebbles, Honeycomb and Great Grains; the Malt-O-Meal cereal brand; and Peter Pan peanut butter, as well as private label cereal. This role reports to SVP RDQ, and is located at the PCB headquarters in Lakeville, Minnesota.
Responsibilities and Accountabilities
Requirements
Qualifications
Education
BS degree in Food Science, Microbiology, Agricultural engineering or other closely related field; Master's degree preferred.
Experience
Minimum 20 years' experience in the food industry including quality assurance, food production, food safety, 10+ years experience in supervision of professional staff, and operations leadership experience in Quality. Extensive knowledge of quality and food safety systems related to food hygiene, HACCP, sanitation, root cause analysis, verification/validation, compliance standards, and cGMPs. Experience with State and Federal regulatory agencies (FDA) and 3rd party/customer food safety audits.
The pay range for this position is $148,589 - $243,686 per year.
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
This is an exciting opportunity to lead food safety and quality for the Post Consumer Brands Grocery business, currently comprised of cereal and peanut butter at Post Consumer Brands (PCB), with potential to acquire other categories. The Grocery QFS organization includes a corporate QFS team and QFS staff across 8 plants. The PCB Grocery business includes Post brands such as Honey Bunches of Oats, Fruity Pebbles, Honeycomb and Great Grains; the Malt-O-Meal cereal brand; and Peter Pan peanut butter, as well as private label cereal. This role reports to SVP RDQ, and is located at the PCB headquarters in Lakeville, Minnesota.
Responsibilities and Accountabilities
- Provide leadership to all Grocery business departments and individuals in product quality and food safety to maintain a World Class Quality and Food Safety culture.
- Comply fully with all regulatory compliance requirements, maintaining the company position as a food industry leader in Quality Assurance and Food Safety.
- Actively participate in the long-term profitable growth of the business while ensuring we meet or exceed all QFS standards.
- Build, coach, manage, train, and promote a high-performing FSQA team and department culture.
- Partner closely with business partners within the PCB Grocery BU, including Operations/Supply Chain, Marketing, Legal/Regulatory, and R&D, to drive business objectives.
- Direct the activities of Quality Assurance and Food Safety personnel at all Grocery locations, across the Grocery corporate team (~18 HC) and plant teams (8 plants currently). The corporate team includes Operations QFS, External QFS, and Sanitation. The total Grocery QFS org is comprised of ~66 employees.
- Provide direction and guidance to plant Quality Managers and the Operations team in prevention and resolution of critical food safety and food hygiene challenges.
- Partner closely with Operations and the plants, driving quality, food safety, and business objectives. Provide transparency to the recommended costs to ensure quality.
- Ensure critical QFS mature programs and Food Safety Plans are in place, eg micro testing, sanitation, HACCP, CAPA and supplier quality. Ensure the success of internal auditing programs and overall SQF compliance.
- Ensure the PCB Grocery business is well positioned to execute in special situations, including effective execution in the event of market withdrawals or recalls, leveraging a robust track and trace system.
- Evaluate gaps in FSQA programs through the use of multi-disciplinary team root cause analysis, ensuring that corrective actions are effective.
- Oversee cost assessments, budgeting/capitalization, and resource management to carry out the mission of delivering safe, quality food while also meeting business objectives.
- Ensure the effective QFS integration of new food businesses or plants in the event of further acquisitions.
- Provide food safety and quality subject matter expertise for continuous improvement and strategic growth plans.
- Partner closely with Post Holdings QFS, Legal and Regulatory leadership.
- Partner closely with the Pet QFS leader and Micro/Food Safety leader within Post Consumer Brands to ensure consistency in team standards, process standards and talent sharing.
- While reporting directly to the RDQ leader of PCB, this role has a dotted line reporting relationship to the Post Holdings VP QFS and the Grocery VP of Operations.
Requirements
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, analytical ability, leadership strengths, ability to lead change, ability to drive culture, influencing and coaching skills, and ability to work effectively with a team.
- Ability to simultaneously inspire a team while also holding a team accountable.
- Self-motivated, proactive, and learning agile.
- Able and willing to work effectively in both corporate and plant environments, across all levels of the organization.
- Strong ability to collect data, analyze information, define problems, identify solutions, and make decisions. Advanced expertise in Quality management systems & analytics, and change control.
- Demonstrated professionalism with a dedicated work ethic and ability to prioritize/manage multiple projects.
- Advanced HACCP, Preventative Control Quality Individual, and SQF Practitioner certifications.
- Critical Leadership Expectations: Leads Change, Learning Agile, Drives Execution, Works Collaboratively, Interpersonal Agility, Conflict Resolution.
- Travel as needed, up to ~25% travel.
Qualifications
Education
BS degree in Food Science, Microbiology, Agricultural engineering or other closely related field; Master's degree preferred.
Experience
Minimum 20 years' experience in the food industry including quality assurance, food production, food safety, 10+ years experience in supervision of professional staff, and operations leadership experience in Quality. Extensive knowledge of quality and food safety systems related to food hygiene, HACCP, sanitation, root cause analysis, verification/validation, compliance standards, and cGMPs. Experience with State and Federal regulatory agencies (FDA) and 3rd party/customer food safety audits.
The pay range for this position is $148,589 - $243,686 per year.