Sr Director Continuous Improvement

Senior Director, Continuous Improvement

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.

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

Big company opportunity. Small company attitude. Discover just right as our Senior Director, Continuous Improvement.

At Post Consumer Brands, we're making lives better by making delicious food accessible for all, from beloved cereals to pet foods and peanut butter enjoyed by families across North America. This senior enterprise leadership role will shape how our multi-category, multi-site food manufacturing organization runs every day.

Why You'll Love This Role

• You'll do big things with impact. Help advance and scale an established CI culture where results are visible, measurable, and tied to business performance.
• You'll feel your handprint on the work. PCB already has strong CI foundations. You will accelerate consistency, alignment, and leadership behaviors.
• You'll elevate leaders and teams. Coach at all levels to turn CI into a daily leadership expectation, not a standalone initiative.
• You'll join a culture that's inviting and inclusive. You'll have strong resources behind you while working in an environment that still feels personal and collaborative.
• You'll get the best of both worlds. Big opportunities, a small company attitude, and room to do your best work.

What You'll Lead & Influence

As the Senior Director of Continuous Improvement, you'll advance and scale an established CI operating system across a multi-category, multi-site food manufacturing organization. You'll build on strong operational foundations by increasing consistency, accelerating impact, and strengthening leadership behaviors as PCB continues to grow. Your early focus will be on Manufacturing, reinforcing standards, daily management discipline, and visual management, before expanding practices across the enterprise.

You will:

• Advance CI Strategy & Enterprise Alignment by evolving the CI operating system, reinforcing common standards, and ensuring CI priorities tightly connect to business strategy and measurable value creation, in partnership with Finance.
• Strengthen Manufacturing CI Execution by reducing performance variability, reinforcing daily management and problem solving, and enabling plants to benchmark and scale best practices. You will support Plant Managers in sustaining improvements and scaling wins.
• Elevate Visual & Daily Management by ensuring performance visuals are clear, current, and actionable. You'll embed visuals into tiered huddles, shift handoffs, and lead standard work to surface issues quickly and resolve them at the right level.
• Lead Culture & Behavior Change by coaching leaders to use performance data effectively, while reinforcing accountability, problem solving, and psychological safety.
• Develop & Lead the CI Team by guiding a small but high impact corporate CI team focused on coaching, scalability, and stewardship of CI standards. You'll ensure resources are deployed to the highest value opportunities.
• Build CI Capability Enterprise Wide through targeted training, certification, and experiential learning. You'll partner with HR to integrate CI behaviors into leadership development and succession planning.
• Expand CI Beyond Manufacturing in a planned, sustainable way, adapting rigor for non-manufacturing environments while grounding expansion in proven operational success.
• Ensure Governance & Sustainability by strengthening governance, owning CI metrics, driving accountability, and embedding CI into everyday operations and long-term planning.

Qualifications

What We're Looking For

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 5+ years of Director-level experience, with 10+ years in manufacturing, operations, or continuous improvement.
• Demonstrated success implementing and scaling CI systems and culture in complex organizations.
• Deep expertise in Lean, Six Sigma, Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), daily management, and visual management systems.
• Strong financial acumen with experience validating results.

Skills & Leadership Capabilities

• Proven success leading Lean across multiple manufacturing sites.
• Hands-on, credible leader who influences without authority and builds partnerships from the plant floor to the executive level.
• Skilled in change management, stakeholder management, and overcoming CI/Lean skepticism.
• Strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate complexity into actionable insights.
• Excellent communication skills, including presenting to senior executives.
• Strategic mindset with the ability to develop CI practices that engage and empower teams.

Location & Travel

• This role is based at our Lakeville, MN headquarters.
• Successful performance requires meaningful time in our manufacturing environments across our multi-site network, including regular travel to plant locations.

Ready to Make an Impact?

If you're hungry for your next challenge and excited by the opportunity to shape CI culture across a growing organization, this role may be just right for you. Help us elevate performance, develop leaders, and deliver for the families and pets who count on our brands every day.

The pay range for this position is $133,592 - $219,091 per year.