Sr Manager Trade Marketing - Post Holdings : Job Details

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 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 and Facebook 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.

Location: Lakeville, MN (Hybrid: 3 days in office / 2 remote)#LI-Hybrid

Are you ready to drive brand growth from strategy to shelf? We're looking for a dynamic, results-driven Sr. Manager of Trade Marketing to take the lead in shaping how our brands show up at retail—driving revenue, profit, and executional excellence through smart, integrated commercial plans.

In this role, you'll serve as the strategic link between Marketing, Sales, and the broader commercial team—translating brand ambition into tailored customer and channel strategies that win at the shelf. You'll own the 4Ps (Product, Price, Place, Promotion) for a portfolio of brands and lead the charge in turning insights into action that fuels growth and profitability.

What You'll Do:

• Be the commercial lead for your brands—owning trade strategy, performance insights, and customer-level execution to meet revenue and profit targets.
• Partner cross-functionally with Sales, Marketing, Finance, Category Management, and Supply Chain to build and align on holistic strategies that balance company priorities with customer realities.
• Lead the promotional forecast from the ground up, identifying volume-driving opportunities and influencing base planning based on pricing, assortment, distribution changes, and in-market trends.
• Turn insights into impact by analyzing consumption and competitive activity to optimize promotional planning and elevate forecast accuracy.
• Shape the long-term brand plan alongside Marketing, ensuring customer and category dynamics are embedded in strategic direction and annual operating plans.
• Create compelling selling stories that empower the Sales team and bring brand strategies to life at retail—complete with channel-specific tactics and clear priorities by customer.
• Steer the 4Ps across your portfolio, including price-pack architecture, trade tactics, distribution strategy, and promotional cadence to unlock white space opportunities.
• Optimize trade investment, partnering with Finance and Sales to evaluate ROI, hit budget targets, and continuously improve performance.
• Track KPIs and performance metrics, creating an open feedback loop to adjust plans and close gaps where needed.
• Support innovation launches, contributing to commercialization plans, forecasting distribution and velocity targets, and ensuring a successful sell-in and in-market execution.

What You Bring:

• Experience: 7+ years experience in Trade Marketing, Sales, or Brand within the CPG industry. Experience in Finance is a plus if combined with the one of the previous three. Having worked with multiple large strategic retailers and trade management systems is strongly preferred.
• Education: Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, or related field; MBA is a plus.
• Skills: Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills, exceptional communication and storytelling abilities, strong analytical and strategic thinking, and a passion for turning strategy into execution.
• Leadership: You're a cross-functional influencer, able to build consensus without direct authority, lead multiple projects with tight timelines, and navigate complexity with a solutions-first mindset.

Why You'll Love It Here:

At our core, we believe in building brands that matter—and trade marketing that delivers. In this role, you'll have a direct hand in shaping the trajectory of key brands and work with a passionate team that thrives on collaboration, creativity, and commercial impact.

Reporting to: Associate Director, Trade MarketingTravel: Up to 25%

Join us and help shape the future of our brands at the shelf—where strategy meets execution.