Supply Chain Services

Business Unit Overview:
Headquartered in Lakeville, Minn., Post Consumer Brands, a business unit of Post Holdings Inc., is focused on providing delicious food choices for every taste and budget. 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.

Brand:
The company’s portfolio ranges from iconic brands such as Honey Bunches of Oats
**®**, Grape-Nuts
**®** and PEBBLES
** cereals, as well as Peter Pan
**®** peanut butter to the top-selling Malt-O-Meal
**®** brand of value ready-to-eat cereals and more. Our business is growing and that’s where you come in. Our company is a hearty mix of ambitious people who want to make great things happen.

Location Description:
Post Consumer Brands in Cobourg, Ontario is home to more than 140 team members and produces the majority of the company's Non-GMO Project Verified and organic products. Cobourg's historic downtown is just a short trip from the plant, perfect for an after-work walk on the towns many pathways and beautiful parks. At Post, you'll not only be a part of a collaborative manufacturing team, but also the community, with the opportunity to participate in a variety of volunteer activities throughout the year.

**Responsibilities**:
Under the direction of the Materials Manager, the Supply Chain Services & Inventory Specialist is accountable to provide project coordination support for identified projects within the Materials department. Primary responsibilities of the Coordinator are to monitor inventory levels, perform cycle counts and ensure a smooth transition from old items to new items that minimize write offs and maintain identified inventory targets, creation of standard work documentation, KPI tracking, prepare, communicate and represent the department at project meetings.

Other key functions the position works with:

- Finance
- to review product variances and yield reporting
- Transportation - to minimize excess product movement and highlight inventory expediting needs
- Material Planning - to assure plan modifications are compatible with lead times and availability
- Production Planning - to assure schedules are efficient as possible for both processing and packaging

given current demand requirements and service levels

Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

- Perform cycle counting and inventory adjustments to maintain SOX compliance
- Assist in DSI, Cosmos and JDE skills development in the plant
- Provide coordination on assigned projects and assist members of the materials and production teams, including but not limited to monitoring and validating inventory levels, making recommendations for change to align with project needs, issuing communications, project status updates, coordinating meetings, standard work documentation, and KPI tracking.
- Review existing production plans to recommend changes that limit inventory write-offs.
- Review existing material plans to recommend changes to materials plan that ensure production availability and limited inventory write-offs.
- Communicate timing needs and impacts of the project schedules to master supply planning, production planning, material planning, customer solutions and transportation planning.
- Coordinate activities to pursue opportunities and resolve issues. Document, communicate and follow-up on action plans
- Provide cross-functional support to both Warehousing and Production including vacation coverage
- Track and report Key Performance Indicators on significant variances, perform root cause analysis and make the appropriate revisions within the project schedule
- Leadership Competencies: customer focus, drive for results; action-oriented; problem solving, planning, timely decision making, informing, organizing, conflict management, interpersonal savvy

Qualifications:
EDUCATION:

- Associate’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Accounting, administrative training, or related field is preferred

EXPERIENCE:

- Would prefer a minimum of 2 years of combined related experience operating in areas of planning, operations, inventory control, production scheduling, demand management, capacity management, materials management, or distribution resource planning; with preference in food processing/packaging
- Proficient in the use of office technologies and demonstrated ability to deliver high level, responsive customer service in a business environment is required
- Able to build relationships