R&D Product Developer

Business Unit Overview

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 9

Lives® 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  and follow us on Linked In and Facebook for the latest news.

At Post Consumer Brands, we’ve spent generations showing up for families, starting with breakfast, the most important meal of the day. Our cereals have become a trusted part of daily routines, helping spark conversations, fuel busy mornings, and create everyday moments that bring families closer together, including their furry four-legged family members, who have recently become a part of our story.

As families have evolved, so have we. What began at the breakfast table has expanded into snacks, peanut butter, and pet food, because caring for a family means feeding every part of it. With the addition of several iconic pet brands, we’ve extended our purpose: to make high-quality, accessible food for everyone under the same roof.

This phase is still new, and that’s what makes it exciting. As we continue to grow across grocery and pet, we’re looking for people who care about good food, thoughtful work, and the kind of impact that stretches from store shelves to kitchen tables, and food bowls, across the country.

Post Consumer Brands corporate headquarters in Lakeville, Minnesota, 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.

• Develop new products and improvements to existing products. Assure that product activities meet company cost, capacity, quality, marketing and product development requirements.
• Improve and develop extensions to existing brands using laboratory bench top, vendor facilities and full-scale manufacturing systems. Ability to go from bench top to pilot scale to full scale production.
• Provide design and processing parameters for new products, capacity improvements, and equipment design.
• Support the identification and solution of cost savings issues, product/packaging change issues, equipment modifications, manufacturability issues, etc., using appropriate scientific principles.
• Support validation of process and product parameter changes at the plant level (e.g., equipment, process, or product related).
• R&D commercialization lead for new products and corporate cost savings projects.

Work Location:

Hybrid 3 days per week in office in Lakeville, MN.

EDUCATION:

Minimum of a 4-year degree in food science, engineering, or other technical degree.

EXPERIENCE:

2-5 years of experience in the food industry in either product or process development roles. Experience in product formulation, process optimization, scale up from bench to pilot plant to plant production, cost savings and quality improvements.

OTHER REQUIREMENTS:

• Organizes and manages projects; supports, facilitates, and leads multi-functional work teams; leads teams to consensus; strong negotiation skills.
• Proven innovation and creativity skills.
• Results driven for being the low-cost producer and supporting company growth strategies.
• Solves highly complex problems and prioritizes actions in a timely manner.
• Uses strong analytical skills and sound business judgement while investigating all sources for answers and can quickly sense what will help resolve issues.
• Ability to work effectively in a team-based environment with multiple functional groups, in a collaborative and positive manner. Supports and fosters change.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Travel required ~20% of time to support project trials and start-ups.

Salary grade and range may increase depending on selected candidate's experience. The pay range for this position is $70,386 - $98,541 per year.