Senior Manager - xQFS (Co-Manufacturing)

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. 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. 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.

At Post Consumer Brands, we believe meaningful careers offer both the resources to do big things and the opportunity to make your mark. We are looking for a strategic, hands-on quality leader to help shape how we protect food safety, strengthen external partnerships, and continuously improve performance across our co-manufacturing and warehousing network.

As Senior Manager - External Quality & Food Safety (Co-Manufacturing & Warehousing), you will provide strategic and executional leadership across domestic and international external manufacturing and third-party warehousing locations. Your work will support both Pet Food and Human Food businesses, helping ensure compliance with food safety, quality, and regulatory requirements while enabling commercialization, network growth, and continuous improvement. This is an opportunity to lead a specialized team, influence partners across the external supply chain, and build stronger systems, metrics, and ways of working. You will collaborate closely with Quality & Food Safety, Operations, Supply Chain, Procurement, R&D, and external partners to turn risk insights into action.

Set the strategic direction for food safety and quality across the external co-manufacturing and warehousing network. Lead and develop a team of technical professionals while building capability in risk assessment, auditing, supplier management, and relationship leadership. Strengthen partnerships with external manufacturers and warehousing providers by establishing shared objectives, performance metrics, and continuous improvement roadmaps. Guide food safety and quality readiness for product launches, reformulations, technology transfers, and network expansions. Direct the external audit program, including risk-based prioritization, scope, execution strategy, corrective actions, and systemic improvement. Own the external network risk portfolio across product design, manufacturing, storage, distribution, and warehousing. Establish meaningful performance governance through scorecards, trend analysis, executive-level reviews, and clear accountability. Lead cross-functional responses to escalations, nonconformances, damaged product, claims, and emerging risks. Sponsor improvement initiatives that strengthen quality systems, improve efficiency, and deliver measurable business value. Help build consistent, best-in-class ways of working across Pet Food and Human Food operations.

What We’re Looking For Bachelor’s degree, preferably in engineering, food science, food safety, or a related field. Preventive Controls Qualified Individual certification. At least 10 years of food