Ralcorp Holdings, Inc.

• Job ID:
• Date:10/28/2008
• Location:Parsippany
• State:New Jersey
• Degree:B.S./B.A.

Salary/Compensation:

Competitive

Job Types:

Marketing, Materials Mgmt./Logistics/Supply Chain

Ralcorp, headquartered in St. Louis, MO, is the leading producer of a variety of value brand and store brand foods sold under the individual labels of various grocery, mass merchandise and drugstore retailers, and frozen bakery products sold to in-store bakeries, restaurants and other foodservice customers. Through a recent merger with Post Cereals, Ralcorp is now also a leading producer of branded cereals. Ralcorp's diversified product mix includes: ready-to-eat and hot cereals; nutritional and cereal bars; snack mixes, corn-based chips and corn snack products; crackers and cookies; snack nuts; chocolate candy; salad dressings; mayonnaise; peanut butter; jams and jellies; syrups; sauces; frozen griddle products; frozen biscuits and other frozen pre-baked products.

We have emerged as a solid and powerful organization focusing on newly energized and highly motivated teams. Today we also emerge with a heightened commitment to expand our presence through new product development and through the acquisition of allied store brand businesses. Through operations in over thirty plants within the United States and Canada we employ about 9,000 people with sales boasting of $3 billion. Every location offers an environment that values each of its employees!

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Direct the product change process in a business category. This individual interfaces extensively Consumer Marketing, Customer Development, Finance, Technology, Quality, and all functions within Supply Chain (Procurement, Manufacturing and Customer Service and Logistics), to deliver projects within the specified time, cost and quality parameters.

Responsibilities include:

• Lead cross-functional teams in the development and implementation of a broad, coordinated set of projects to meet the revenue, volume, growth, productivity and quality goals and priorities within a category.
• Facilitate the definition of project scopes, goals, tasks and resource (people and cost) requirements; resolve or assist in the resolution of conflicts within and between projects or functional groups; develop methods to monitor project progress and provide corrective action if necessary.
• Ensure that project scopes and timing take into consideration minimizing waste (raw, pack and finished goods write-offs) and added complexity (utilizing existing asset platforms, sku proliferation) to the business system.
• Ensure that suitable risk assessment and contingency planning (for relevant projects) takes place, is communicated and agreed upon by all stakeholders and is acted on if necessary to keep the project on track or to accelerate the project if the business need exists.
• Enable best practice sharing by ensuring all projects are properly closed out and key learning’s are documented.
• Initiate the finished good Masterdata setup and communicate completed information to all stakeholders so all information systems can be properly set up to produce, ship, sell and invoice our products.
• Manage the traded unit (non-regulated) graphic process ensuring compliance with all Post policies and communicate completed information to all stakeholders.

JOB QUALIFICATIONS:

• Minimum 3 years experience in a consumer products environment, typically with 2 years experience of supply chain / production / procurement / R&D / project management.
• Extensive change / project management knowledge.
• Working knowledge of the supply chain and basic supply chain principles.
• Understanding of internal functional roles.
• Bachelor’s degree (accounting/finance, marketing, logistics, engineering, quality, food science, operations)

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