Chief Information Officer

About the Business

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™, Malt-O-Meal™ cereal, Peter Pan™ peanut butter, Rachael Ray® Nutrish™, Kibbles 'n Bits™, and 9Lives™ pet food. Post also provides private label solutions in pet food, cereal, nut butters, and granola. The corporate headquarters in Lakeville, Minnesota, is home to over 400 team members collaborating to serve millions of consumers across North America.

Responsibilities

• Business Partnership & Strategy Alignment
  • Partner with executive leadership and functional leaders to translate business strategy into a clear, prioritized technology roadmap that drives revenue growth, margin improvement, and operational efficiency.
  • Serve as a trusted advisor to the business, proactively identifying where technology can improve performance, reduce risk, or create competitive advantage.
  • Collaborate with Post Holdings Inc. (PHI) technology leadership to leverage enterprise scale, align on shared services, and ensure PCB's technology strategy complements the broader portfolio.
• M&A Integration & Growth Enablement
  • Lead IT planning and execution for acquisitions, ensuring rapid onboarding to standardized processes, systems, and data models with minimal business disruption.
  • Develop and continuously refine a repeatable integration playbook that accelerates synergy capture, reduces integration risk, and scales with PCB's acquisition pace.
  • Partner with business leadership to ensure acquired businesses are operationally integrated and delivering expected value within defined timelines.
• Operational Excellence & Reliability
  • Ensure availability, performance, and resilience of all business-critical applications and infrastructure supporting manufacturing, supply chain, and commercial operations.
  • Drive simplification, standardization, and reuse across the technology portfolio to reduce complexity, lower support costs, and improve reliability.
  • Oversee IT and OT security, ensuring enterprise risk is managed effectively across all environments without impeding business operations.
  • Increase scalability and reliability across systems to enable business agility as PCB grows organically and through acquisition.
• Digital Transformation, Data & AI
  • Lead development of enterprise data and analytics capabilities, enabling visibility, forecasting, and data-driven decision-making across functions.
  • Drive AI strategy in partnership with business leaders, focusing on practical, ROI-grounded use cases that enhance productivity, decision quality, and operational efficiency.
  • Selectively modernize systems and architecture to reduce technical debt and improve scalability, tied to clear business outcomes, not technology for technology's sake.
  • Ensure all transformation initiatives have clear ownership, adoption plans, and measurable KPIs to track value delivery.
• Financial Discipline & Investment Management
  • Own the IT budget end-to-end, including run costs, project investments, and resource allocation, delivering year-over-year productivity and cost discipline.
  • Ensure every technology investment is grounded in a clear business case, measurable ROI, and alignment to enterprise value/EBITDA impact.
  • Continuously evaluate the application and infrastructure portfolio to eliminate redundancy, rationalize spend, and reduce total cost of ownership.
  • Partner with functional leaders to ensure expected outcomes realization from IT-enabled investments.
• Organization, Talent & Culture
  • Build and lead a high-performing, business-oriented IT organization with clear accountability, ownership of outcomes, and a continuous improvement mindset.
  • Develop IT leadership talent that operates with business understanding, not just technical expertise, capable of partnering effectively across functions.
  • Foster a culture of transparency, collaboration, and disciplined execution, where teams are empowered to make aligned decisions at the right level.
  • Manage financial and resourcing constraints and support the team with resolution of roadblocks and interdependencies.
• Governance & Decision Making
  • Establish governance that provides clarity on priorities, decision rights, and trade-offs, enabling speed without sacrificing control.
  • Ensure compliance with all applicable security, privacy, and regulatory requirements across the enterprise.
  • Make tradeoffs visible early, balancing value, risk, and complexity, and drive structured decision-making that avoids local optimization at the expense of the enterprise.
• Transformation Execution
  • Change Leadership: Apply a human-centric approach to change management. Help the enterprise understand, embrace, and navigate changes, and inspire the workforce through the journey.
  • Decision Making: Evaluate the pros and cons of choices to achieve desired outcomes efficiently. Be decisive and determined when a decision needs to be made, without unnecessary delay.
  • Delegation: Restructure bandwidth to drive strategic endeavors, intelligently shifting the right work to others to focus on what matters most. Encourage others to take appropriate accountability.
  • Prioritization & Focus: Focus on desired results and business outcomes. Manage time with a cost-benefit mindset; not only doing things right, but doing the right things.

Requirements

• BS Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, STEM field (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math), or related technical discipline.
• 15+ years of progressive IT experience, including leadership of complex, enterprise-wide initiatives.
• 7+ years of senior leadership experience with demonstrated ability to build high-performing teams.
• Experience leading IT integration in M&A-driven or acquisition-active environments (required).
• MBA, manufacturing industry, and/or consumer packaged goods experience preferred.

Why You’ll Love This Role

• Shape the future by leading a transformation that elevates IT into a strategic business function.
• Partner directly with executive leadership and influence enterprise-wide decisions.
• Build scalable systems that support acquisitions and long-term growth.
• Operate with autonomy while collaborating within a strong enterprise framework.
• Drive innovation through data, analytics, and AI.

Location & Travel

This role is based in Lakeville, MN. Travel requirements may vary based on business needs, including support of acquisitions and integration efforts.

Pay

The pay range for this position is $236,617 - $375,000 per year.