Senior Program Manager
- Location
- Saint Louis, Missouri, United States
- Work mode
- On-site
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Salary
- $0 – $0 / year
About the job
Business Unit Overview
Feeding the world is what we do – how we do it is unique. We are not your textbook consumer packaged goods company. While others may be slow to make change happen, Post continuously drives both inorganic and organic growth. Our history is evidence of that fact with over 100 years of heritage and growth from brands that transcend generations like Honey Bunches of Oats, Fruity Pebbles, Malt-O-Meal, Bob Evans, Kibbles 'n Bits, Egg Beaters, Peter Pan peanut butter and more. Our foodservice and ingredient businesses supply other products you love for brands, restaurants and stores.
We have more than 55 offices and manufacturing sites and approximately 13,000 employees. Over the past 13 years, Post has made 28+ acquisitions and innovative financial transactions and reached $8.2 billion in net sales in fiscal 2025. During turbulent times of market uncertainty, the food industry has provided a level of stability unlike other industries
Post Holdings, Inc. is a Fortune 500 ® company headquartered in Brentwood, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri. Our casual professional atmosphere encourages team members to collaborate, innovate and support our operating companies. Our passion and drive advance the reputation of our operating companies and brands—together, we make a difference.
Responsibilities
Are you the person who quietly makes everything around you better organized, more polished, and on time? Are you a creative communicator who can turn a half-formed idea into something polished and ready for an executive audience? Are you excited by the idea of learning a new domain by sitting next to the leader of it?
A cybersecurity background isn't required, but if you have one, all the better. Bring the operational craft, the communications instincts, and the follow-through described below, and we'll teach you the cybersecurity. We are hiring for how you operate, not for what's already on your résumé.
If so, we have a unique opportunity to join our Cybersecurity team at Post Holdings, where you will be the operational engine and creative force behind how Cybersecurity shows up across our enterprise, to leadership, to our operating companies, and to every employee whose data we are entrusted to protect. As a key member of the Corporate Cybersecurity team, you will report directly to the VP, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) & Chief Privacy Officer (CPO), and work across a broad team that spans Cybersecurity, Privacy, and IT Operations. You will partner across the senior leaders of the team as well as the Cybersecurity and IT leaders embedded in our operating companies and the business unit teams they support. You own your work end-to-end: designing the offsite and calling the venue, drafting the executive memo and proofreading it, planning the Summit and working the run-of-show on the day. The bar is leadership; the muscle is execution. OBJECTIVE / KEY RESULT AREAS The Sr. Program Manager is the operational backbone of the enterprise Cybersecurity function and a trusted partner to the VP, CISO & CPO. This is a senior operational leadership role with enterprise-wide scope and end-to-end ownership, combining strategic design with hands-on execution, covering the function's governance, communications, executive reporting, project portfolio, events, and policy lifecycle. Operating altitude and elevation. This role operates at the enterprise level and routinely coordinates with, and is accountable to, the most senior audiences at Post: the CISO & CPO, the CIO, the Audit Committee and the Board, the senior leaders of the Cybersecurity function (Architecture & Operations, Risk Management, and Privacy & Technology Compliance), the Cybersecurity leaders embedded in each operating company, and IT and business-unit leadership across Post's operating companies Technical security decisions remain with subject-matter experts on the Cybersecurity team. RESPONSIBILITIES Run the Operating Rhythm of the Enterprise.
• Set and run the cadence of Post's enterprise Cybersecurity leadership and governance bodies: the Enterprise Security Council, the Enterprise Security Risk Group, and the Operational Technology Security Council.
- Set and run the cadence of Post's enterprise Cybersecurity leadership and governance bodies: the Enterprise Security Council, the Enterprise Security Risk Group, and the Operational Technology Security Council.
- Own the agendas, pre-reads, briefings, tracking of decisions, and follow-ups, ensuring outcomes and action items are documented, communicated to leadership, and driven to closure across the enterprise.
- For the IT Leadership group, own the readouts and reporting into the group; its meeting cadence is owned elsewhere.
• Partner with subject-matter experts across the Cybersecurity team to collect, curate, and shape the inputs for monthly, quarterly, and ad-hoc reporting packages for the CIO, Audit Committee, Board, and other senior leaders.
- Partner with subject-matter experts across the Cybersecurity team to collect, curate, and shape the inputs for monthly, quarterly, and ad-hoc reporting packages for the CIO, Audit Committee, Board, and other senior leaders.
- Translate raw program activity into clear, board-ready insight that earns the reader's trust.
• Own the end-to-end communications process across the Cybersecurity and IT Operations organization: intake, design, drafting, review, approval routing, and publication.
- Own the end-to-end communications process across the Cybersecurity and IT Operations organization: intake, design, drafting, review, approval routing, and publication.
- The CISO sets the voice and the message; you operationalize it. Establish the standards, templates, and review gates that ensure every team, including Corporate Cybersecurity, IT Operations, the Cybersecurity and IT leaders embedded in each operating company, and partner functions, communicates in one consistent, on-brand voice to leadership, employees, and external audiences.
- Serve as the editorial gate: review and approve outbound communications for clarity, consistency, and alignment to the CISO's voice before they reach executive, enterprise, or external audiences.
- Own how Cybersecurity shows up across the function. Design and deliver the annual Cybersecurity Summit and the other in-person team meetings and gatherings that bring the Cybersecurity teams together.
- Manage the budget, vendor relationships, and logistics that make these programs run, with a keen eye for how things look and feel
• Manage, track, process, forecast, update, monitor, and report on the full Cybersecurity, Privacy, and IT Operations budget, maintaining an accurate, current view of spend against plan across the function.
- Manage, track, process, forecast, update, monitor, and report on the full Cybersecurity, Privacy, and IT Operations budget, maintaining an accurate, current view of spend against plan across the function.
- Partner with Finance to build and update forecasts, reconcile actuals to plan, and keep budget owners aligned to the numbers throughout the cycle.
- Identify and recommend optimizations, including cost efficiencies, reallocations, and savings opportunities, and surface them to the CISO & CPO and Finance for decision.
• Own the single, current picture of what's in flight across a portfolio of programs that spans Cyber Operations, Cyber Risk, Cyber Compliance, Privacy, IT Workforce Productivity, IT Operations, and IT Service Management: the consolidated portfolio of every project inside each program, with milestones, owners, status, risks, and dependencies.
- Own the single, current picture of what's in flight across a portfolio of programs that spans Cyber Operations, Cyber Risk, Cyber Compliance, Privacy, IT Workforce Productivity, IT Operations, and IT Service Management: the consolidated portfolio of every project inside each program, with milestones, owners, status, risks, and dependencies.
- Orchestrate and roll up the portfolio of programs: maintain the enterprise-wide view while tracking each individual project, reconciling disparate updates from each program into one coherent, current picture.
- Set the project cadence across teams, programs, and operating companies: hold owners accountable for deliverables, manage timelines and dependencies, and align project work to enterprise deadlines such as audit cycles, reporting cycles, and assessment milestones.
- Own the roll-up reporting that consolidates the programs into one view; produce the recurring status updates and roadmap inputs leadership relies on; own how key project and program status is communicated to leadership and stakeholders
• Own the cadence, orchestration, and formalities of how Cybersecurity policies, guidelines, and processes get created, refreshed, and approved.
- Own the cadence, orchestration, and formalities of how Cybersecurity policies, guidelines, and processes get created, refreshed, and approved.
- Route policies authored by subject-matter experts across IT, Legal, HR, Compliance, and the businesses; own the approval workflow and the visibility of where every policy stands. Technical authoring remains with the subject-matter experts on the team.
• Own the consolidated reporting view across compliance and assessments: the cadence, the consolidation, and how status is communicated to leadership. Subject-matter experts on the team identify the gaps and remediation paths.
- Own the consolidated reporting view across compliance and assessments: the cadence, the consolidation, and how status is communicated to leadership. Subject-matter experts on the team identify the gaps and remediation paths.
- Take half a brief and return a credible draft: executive staff updates, all-hands notes, leadership memos, and talking points, written in a voice that fits th
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