What are the responsibilities and job description for the HRIS Intern position at Post Holdings?
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
Our internship program is designed to provide college students the opportunity to learn about Post Holdings and gain meaningful, hands-on entry level work experience in a professional environment. Our goal is to build a roadmap that leads you to a long, rewarding and challenging career with Post. As a part of our internship curriculum we provide the opportunity for each intern to interact with various branches of the company. We work with you to determine your desired career path, and the correct steps to get you to your goals. At the end of the program each intern will give a brief presentation to their mentors summarizing their accomplishments and key takeaways achieved while working at Post Holdings.
Role
The Post Holdings’ HRIS team implements, maintains, and supports the Human Resource Management Systems (HRMS) used by our businesses and employees. The internship role will be engaged in the following activities:
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
Our internship program is designed to provide college students the opportunity to learn about Post Holdings and gain meaningful, hands-on entry level work experience in a professional environment. Our goal is to build a roadmap that leads you to a long, rewarding and challenging career with Post. As a part of our internship curriculum we provide the opportunity for each intern to interact with various branches of the company. We work with you to determine your desired career path, and the correct steps to get you to your goals. At the end of the program each intern will give a brief presentation to their mentors summarizing their accomplishments and key takeaways achieved while working at Post Holdings.
Role
The Post Holdings’ HRIS team implements, maintains, and supports the Human Resource Management Systems (HRMS) used by our businesses and employees. The internship role will be engaged in the following activities:
- Learn the HRMS that support the Post Holding business model
- Lead 1-2 impactful technical projects from inception to implementation
- Provide project documentation and status updates to Project Manager and team members
- Participate in assessments, technical reviews, and provide technical services for other team members projects
- Provide technical support for platforms managed by the HRIS Team
- Make recommendations on continuous improvement activities and new technologies
- Hands-on entry-level experience
- Exposure to many departments at the corporate level
- Career coaching from HR professionals
- Collaborative internship activities both on-site and off-site
- Must be actively pursuing a 4-year degree at an accredited university
- Pursuit of an undergraduate or graduate degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field of study
- Should have strong mathematical skills
- Highly desirable to have strong MicroSoft Excel skills
- Ability to multi-task and occasionally work in a fast-paced environment
- Must display a professional appearance and attitude.
- Excellent oral and written communications skills
- Windows 10 / 11 Operating system familiarity at an advanced user or administrator level
- Knowledge of Cloud concepts such as SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, Hybrid and Public cloud
- Understanding of Zero Trust security concepts and least privilege access
- Advanced Microsoft Office familiarity is a plus (Excel, Visio, PPT)
- Any training or coursework with programming and writing SQL is a plus.
- Course/syllabus completions involving or associated with “Logic” is a plus.