Business Analyst - Plan to Make

Post Consumer Brands•Lakeville, MN

About The Position

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 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, 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. Responsibilities Under the direction of the Production Planning Manager, the Plan to Make Business Analyst is accountable for standardization and implementation of business processes of manufacturing work order systems in all Post Consumer Brands plant locations. The incumbent places a focus on data quality assessment and improvement within the business and embodies responsibility for quality assurance of system functionality. This position is part of Post Consumer Brands governance efforts implemented to ensure a direct and ongoing focus on achieving and maintaining high quality data within our manufacturing processes. Primary responsibilities include activities for standards assessment, continuous improvement and ongoing maintenance of critical manufacturing system assets. A key deliverable is to create a super user network that will drive standardization in use in each plant location.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Business, Technology or related field is required
Experience with Integrated systems is required with previous involvement in digital transformation preferred
Functional manufacturing systems knowledge
Minimum 3+ years of manufacturing, technology or combined related experience, with a preference in food processing/packaging
Strong knowledge of integrated systems, processes and continuous improvement tools and techniques
Able to build relationships and inspire others
Demonstrated commitment to continuous improvement with data management emphasis

Responsibilities

Collaborate as a strategic business partner with all manufacturing sites and cross functional partners to coordinate activities that quantify and articulate the business impact of data quality issues.
Work within and beyond immediate area to implement system improvement approaches.
Establish a super user network within each plant location. The super users identified will help test, train and roll out changes in system and process within their respective plant locations.
Create and maintain appropriate standard training documentation to be used by super users.
Assist in providing training at plant locations.
Work as Lead for test cases to approve for production roll out through the super user network.
Support process development partnering with the Process Excellence team in Integrations.
Provide identification of training and hyper care needs.
Identify system constraints limiting performance and seek out new and different solutions, leveraging expertise across the company to support.
Troubleshoot manufacturing system problems, assist in root cause analysis.
Monitor and influence changes to business processes that will result in process improvement of data quality tools.
Identify data quality metrics and execute data quality audits.
Establish key metrics and target goals for manufacturing systems quality improvement that measure and communicate performance.
Actively participate in the deployment of applications and data integration processes brought through acquisition or technology updates to ensure high-quality standards and controls are implemented.
Support plants as a backup for coverage as needed across the super user network.