Business Systems Analyst, IT Manufacturing - Post Consumer Brands

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. 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 for the latest news.

Post Consumer Brands recently acquired several iconic pet food brands, venturing into a new market while remaining true to our purpose to provide delicious and accessible food that our consumers love. We’re always searching the center store for the next exciting product to add to our portfolio, and right now, we’re growing and need passionate, driven individuals with diverse perspectives to help us reach greater heights. That’s where you come in. Join a team where your voice is not only heard but valued. Make a real impact on brands enjoyed by millions of people and their pets.

At Post Consumer Brands, we take pride in our longstanding legacy of making one of every five breakfast cereals families eat daily. Today, we’re just as focused on our future as we expand our grocery business with different shelf-stable foods, including snacks and peanut butter. We are committed to providing accessible and delicious food for families, and we’re always searching the center store for the next exciting product to add to our portfolio. As we soar to new heights, we need creative, determined individuals from all walks of life to join our team, where your unique perspective and ideas are acknowledged and valued. Be a part of a company that empowers you to make a difference that’s evident on grocery store shelves and families’ tables across North America.

Post Consumer Brands corporate headquarters in Lakeville, Minn. 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. 

Join our team at Post Consumer Brands as an IT Business Systems Analyst (BSA) and play a pivotal role in optimizing our manufacturing and supply chain processes. 

Your expertise will be instrumental in enhancing efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and aligning our business strategies. This role requires an understanding of manufacturing and supply chain principles, robust analytical skills, and the ability to communicate effectively across various functions.  As the bridge between business and IT, you will serve as a dual expert, mastering both our business capabilities and the technology that supports them. You will take ownership of the systems that drive our business, understanding them inside and out. Your role will involve expanding system usage and spearheading continuous improvement initiatives across our IT application portfolio.  Our BSAs provide comprehensive insights into IT and system capabilities and how they integrate into business processes. As an IT BSA, you will be part of a dynamic team of architects, system engineers, and other technical resources. 

Your contributions will be key in leveraging technology to drive business growth and success.

Working Location: Hybrid

• This role is located at the Lakeville, MN Corporate office
• Typical hybrid schedule includes 3 days in-office with remote flexibility up to 2 days a week.  #LI-hybrid

Responsibilities and Accountabilities

• Optimize Software Applications: Apply deep understanding of manufacturing processes and their integration with business operations. 
• Business Engagement: Regularly participate in business process/department/functional group activities to understand and address business needs and challenges.
• Facilitation and Collaboration: Lead sessions to gather user requirements, map current and future state processes, and provide technology-based solutions to business challenges.
• Documentation: Create system design documents and/or user stories to document functional specifications.
• System Configuration: Define, document, and implement changes to system configuration.
• Technical Guidance: Provide solution design guidance to technical team, focusing on functional design, business processes and solution value.
• Application Ownership: Identify technical debt and capability gaps, refine application roadmap considering emerging technologies, user feedback, and business priorities.  Align the roadmap with the organization’s IT strategy.
• Project Support: Assist Project Managers and Business Managers in defining project scope, schedule, resources, and budget requirements.
• Testing Management/Coordination: Create, maintain and coordinate test scenarios, scripts, and data in collaboration with business partners for validating system design, configuration, integration and performance.
• Training Material Review: Assist in creating and reviewing training materials to ensure alignment with business processes and system solution/configuration.
• Level 3 Support: Handle Level 3 support issues escalated from IT Services Team.  Facilitate cross-functional team efforts to drive root cause analysis and resolution of system issues.

Educational Qualifications: A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Management Information Systems or equivalent work experience in a related field.

Experience:A minimum of 3 years of experience in business systems analysis, with a focus on authoring requirements and providing hands-on application support in large enterprise environment.

• Analytical Skills: Strong analytical capabilities, including the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information.
• Adaptability: The ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple priorities effectively.

Preferred Experience and Capabilities

• The ideal candidate will have a strong proficiency in IT systems and technologies that are integral to supply chain and manufacturing operations, preferably in the Consumer-Packaged Good industry. This includes, but is not limited to, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES), Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems, and various business intelligence tools. A deep understanding of Manufacturing Execution Systems, particularly in relation to their integration with shop-floor equipment and enterprise systems such as ERP, Inventory Management, and Maintenance Reliability, is highly desirable.