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Ralcorp Holdings, Inc
Ralcorp Holdings, headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, is the nation's leading producer of private-brand foods sold under the individual labels of various grocery, mass merchandise and drugstore retailers. We also produce a variety of refrigerated doughs and frozen bakery products sold to retailers, in-store bakeries, restaurants or other foodservice customers. Ralcorp's diversified product mix includes: ready-to-eat and hot cereals; nutritional and cereal bars; snack mixes, corn-based chips and extruded corn snack products; crackers and cookies; snack nuts; chocolate candy; salad dressings; mayonnaise; peanut butter; jams and jellies; syrups; sauces; frozen griddle products including pancakes, waffles, and French toast; frozen biscuits and other frozen pre-baked products such as breads and muffins; frozen and refrigerated doughs; and dry pasta.
Ralcorp's net sales were over $4.7 billion in 2011 and our operations include more than 40 manufacturing facilities. With more than 10,000 employees in the United States, Canada and Italy, each of our locations offers an environment that values every employee!
· Manages plant operations to produce products that meet quality, cost, volume and service criteria and objectives. · Key leader of the plant’s continuous improvement process. · Determines resources, skills and structure in respective areas of responsibility to achieve business objectives. · Encourages and ensures career development and succession planning discussions for plant operations. · Establishes clear goals and accountability to direct reports and provides performance feedback on a regular basis. · Mentors and develops direct reports in current position for future career growth. · Develops plant operating budgets and oversees capital management for the facility. · Responsible for ensuring positive employee relations in the facility. · Defines and directs compliance with corporate, division and local plant's policies and procedures. Contributes to the development of company-wide strategic plans. · Leads plant work environment to achieve maximum productivity. Ensures that departmental plans are effective and implemented. In addition, promotes and encourages the use of KPI’s and goals to ensure that goals and outcomes have appropriate visibility. · Maintain good team relationships between/with all division departments to achieve business goals.
· BS/BA degree in Business, Management, Engineering or related discipline required. Advanced degree preferred. · Minimum 10 years experience holding progressively responsible positions in a food processing operation. · Successful track record with continuous improvement and process improvement · Experience with managing a mid to large scale manufacturing operation to include engineering and maintenance, warehousing and shipping, safety, quality and production operations. · Management experience in both union and nonunion environments preferred. · Excellent communications, presentation, interpersonal, project management and leadership skills required. · Proven track record of developing and leading effective teams.
