The Hershey Company

Lead end-to-end program management for supply chain modernization, including project scoping and business case construction with cross-functional coordination. | Bachelor's degree with 7-10 years in CPG or consulting, expertise in program management, governance frameworks, and value chain dynamics. | Why Hershey: At The Hershey Company, our culture is rooted in purpose and inspired by Milton Hershey’s enduring vision that business should create opportunity for others. Through our commitment to corporate philanthropy, we create positive impact by supporting communities, helping children thrive, and operating as a business for good. This includes our deep and long standing partnership with Milton Hershey School, where we invest in education, workforce readiness, and hands on engagement to help students succeed beyond the classroom. Supported by strategic grantmaking, product donations, cross brand collaboration, and strong employee volunteerism, Hershey offers a place to work where making a difference—locally and globally—is part of how we do business every day.Job Location Hershey, PA (Remote) Job Overview As the Senior Manager of Supply Chain Modernization, you will spearhead critical end-to-end program management efforts that define and drive the next phase of modernization initiatives within our supply chain operations. This leadership role involves comprehensive responsibility for scoping projects, constructing robust business cases, prioritizing initiatives amidst competing demands, activating resource plans, and securing cross-functional alignment and executive approvals across various domains including HIPS, PLM, and CapEng.   In this strategic position, you will wield your advanced subject matter expertise to steer complex initiatives that enhance divisional performance and inform enterprise-wide planning. By partnering extensively across product development, operations, commercial, and finance teams, you will address multifaceted challenges to ensure cohesion and alignment with overarching organizational goals.  You will be responsible for rigorously analyzing operational and financial impacts, identifying value chain trade-offs, and delivering insights that empower informed strategic decision-making at the executive level.   This position offers a pivotal opportunity to influence key business outcomes, shape long-term growth strategies, and advance the modernization of supply chain processes. Join us to contribute to an innovative, collaborative environment committed to operational excellence and sustainable success.Accountabilities Key Accountabilities: Maintain full ownership of the integrated roadmap for Supply Chain Modernization, ensuring all milestones, dependencies, and business cases are clearly defined and consistently tracked. Effectively communicate program priorities, progress, and impact across diverse functions and to senior leadership, including updates to the Executive Leadership Team (ELT), Supply Chain Leadership Team (LT), and Board of Directors. Lead prioritization efforts and manage trade-offs to optimize project pacing, collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders to sequence initiatives in light of capacity limitations and mitigate conflicts. Develop comprehensive business cases that quantify value creation, align investments, and detail resourcing plans aligned with strategic objectives. Oversee governance structures and escalation protocols designed to maintain transparency and promptly resolve execution obstacles, coordinating initiatives across HIPS and PLM frameworks and instituting regular monitoring and risk escalation processes.   The role navigates a broad landscape of interdependent changes involving capital expenditures, production planning, and innovation. Success depends on managing resource constraints skillfully, ensuring timely sequencing of work, and applying rigorous governance and communication to address trade-offs and risks swiftly.   Additional responsibilities include facilitating workshops to prioritize data-driven initiatives, managing execution roadmaps with strategic oversight, and fostering collaboration to sustain project momentum and organizational alignment.Minimum Education & Requirements Education, Experience, and Competencies Required: Educational Background: A Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Engineering, Food Science, Marketing, or a related discipline is required. Advanced degrees or certifications in strategy, project management, or supply chain are advantageous. Professional Experience: Between 7 to 10 years of progressive experience in commercial, supply chain, digital transformation, or strategic roles within consumer packaged goods (CPG) or consulting environments. Proven success in leading complex, multi-functional projects is essential.   Core Skills and Abilities: Expertise in program and portfolio management with a demonstrated ability to design and execute integrated workplans, manage dependencies, and drive key decision-making processes. Fluency in governance frameworks to ensure disciplined execution through stage-gate processes. Capacity to distill complex, multi-stream initiatives into clear, actionable executive-level communications outlining decisions, risks, and next steps. Strong analytical skills with the ability to maintain and leverage extensive fact bases, including SKU-level analyses and capacity constraints, to inform sequencing and resourcing strategies. Deep understanding of end-to-end value chain dynamics, with experience analyzing data and processes to diagnose opportunities, design solutions, and quantify value creation potential.   Additional Attributes: Exceptional collaboration and communication skills are critical, along with the ability to work effectively across diverse teams and influence stakeholders at all organizational levels.#LI-RF1 The Hershey Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The policy of The Hershey Company is to extend opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of an individual's race, color, gender, age, national origin, religion, citizenship status, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, transgender status, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other categories protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. The Hershey Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Minority/Female/Disabled/Protected Veterans.   You may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access our online application process as a result of a disability.You can request an accommodation via phone or email.   To request an accommodation via phone, please call +1 877-804-1794 and leave a voicemail with your contact information.  You may also email a request for accommodation to ApplicationHelp@hersheys.com. Please be sure to include “Accommodation Needed” in the subject line. This will ensure that your email is routed to the appropriate contact who will handle your request.

Lead consumer strategy by translating market and retail trends into actionable growth recommendations and influence enterprise decisions through cross-functional partnerships. | Bachelor's degree required with MBA preferred and 10+ years experience in consumer insights or related fields synthesizing signals into growth strategies. | Why Hershey: At The Hershey Company, our culture is rooted in purpose and inspired by Milton Hershey’s enduring vision that business should create opportunity for others. Through our commitment to corporate philanthropy, we create positive impact by supporting communities, helping children thrive, and operating as a business for good. This includes our deep and long standing partnership with Milton Hershey School, where we invest in education, workforce readiness, and hands on engagement to help students succeed beyond the classroom. Supported by strategic grantmaking, product donations, cross brand collaboration, and strong employee volunteerism, Hershey offers a place to work where making a difference—locally and globally—is part of how we do business every day.Job Overview Location: Hershey, PA *This role can be remote within the US with travel 1-2 times per month to Hershey.    Hershey has a new opportunity for Director Consumer Insights, Seasons, Tentpoles & Occasions.  This role serves as an enterprise-level consumer insights thought leader, translating consumer, market, and retail signals into clear growth opportunities across seasons, tentpoles, and occasions. The Director will move beyond traditional survey interpretation to anticipate where the consumer is going, identify new ways into categories, and shape consumer strategy that unlocks incremental occasions and future demand. The role requires strategic curiosity, strong commercial judgment, comfort with ambiguity, and the ability to push the business to think differently about consumers, categories, and growth spaces.Accountabilities Lead consumer strategy for seasonal and occasion-based growth: Translate consumer, market, and retail trends into enterprise-level recommendations that help unlock incremental occasions, future demand, and new ways to grow. Identify new category and demand spaces: Push beyond classic insights work to define new ways into categories and adjacent growth spaces, including emerging use cases and shifts in consumer behavior. Deliver forward-looking seasonal insights: Move insight work from retrospective reporting to action-oriented guidance by defining what the business should do next, not only what happened. Influence enterprise decisions and activation: Partner across commercial, marketing, category, retail, analytics, and innovation teams to translate insights into strategic choices, activation priorities, and executive-ready growth recommendations. Minimum Education & Requirements Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or advanced degree in business, marketing, analytics, psychology, sociology, economics, data science, or related field preferred.  10+ years’ experience in experience in consumer insights, consumer strategy, category strategy, shopper insights, innovation strategy, or related discipline. Proven ability to synthesize consumer, market, and retail signals into enterprise-level recommendations and practical growth strategies. Experience leading complex, ambiguous strategic initiatives that require cross-functional alignment and senior stakeholder influence. Strong ability to identify emerging consumer behaviors, unmet needs, new occasions, and category growth opportunities Comfort moving from research findings to business action, including recommendations on what to prioritize, test, scale, or stop. Executive presence, strong storytelling, and the ability to communicate insight-led strategy clearly and concisely.   The Hershey Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The policy of The Hershey Company is to extend opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of an individual's race, color, gender, age, national origin, religion, citizenship status, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, transgender status, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other categories protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. The Hershey Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Minority/Female/Disabled/Protected Veterans.   You may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access our online application process as a result of a disability.You can request an accommodation via phone or email.   To request an accommodation via phone, please call +1 877-804-1794 and leave a voicemail with your contact information.  You may also email a request for accommodation to ApplicationHelp@hersheys.com. Please be sure to include “Accommodation Needed” in the subject line. This will ensure that your email is routed to the appropriate contact who will handle your request.

Lead global procurement strategy and team for packaging and international categories. | 10-15 years procurement experience with 7+ years leadership in CPG, packaging procurement preferred. | Job Overview The Hershey Company is seeking our next Senior Director of Procurement to lead Packaging and International procurement category strategy development and implementation. This position will report to the Chief Procurement Officer and has responsibility for global packaging in addition to direct and indirect materials & services in support of Hershey’s International business unit. This role offers the opportunity to shape the procurement strategy at scale, influence enterprise performance, build world-class capabilities and make a lasting impact. The Senior Director Procurement, Packaging & International, is a highly visible leader and strategic business partner focused on value creation, supply resilience, supplier innovation, risk management and organizational leadership. This position develops and executes procurement strategies that accelerate growth, improve bottom line costs and drive cash flow while delivering sustainability objectives and risk management outcomes. Through strong relationships and leadership of a high-performing team, the individual will deliver topline and bottom-line objectives which provide a competitive edge. Accountabilities • Drive category management, negotiation and contract strategies, supplier relationship management, commodity management, physical supply continuity, sustainability and quality • Execute sustainability strategies which turn Hershey commitments into action across areas such as packaging, environment and regenerative agricultural • Partner with executive leadership to drive commercial strategies and business resiliency to achieve sustainable topline and bottom-line results • Lead strategy development and long-range procurement planning • Progress digital and technology implementation plans and adoption to unlock efficiency and incremental value creation opportunities • Develop risk management strategies to reduce volatility, ensure predictability and mitigate supply risks • Develop and coach a team of ~35 to enhance organization capabilities, talent succession plans and leadership development • Ensure robust governance, compliance and procurement policy adherence Prior Experience Education: Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Packaging, Engineering or a related field. Master’s degree or MBA is preferred. Experience: 10-15 years of experience in Procurement and a minimum of 7 years in a leadership role within the CPG industry. Experience with packaging, ingredients, commodities and service procurement is preferred #LI-CT1 The Hershey Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The policy of The Hershey Company is to extend opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of an individual's race, color, gender, age, national origin, religion, citizenship status, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, transgender status, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other categories protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. The Hershey Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Minority/Female/Disabled/Protected Veterans. You may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access our online application process as a result of a disability. You can request an accommodation via phone or email. To request an accommodation via phone, please call +1 877-804-1794 and leave a voicemail with your contact information. You may also email a request for accommodation to ApplicationHelp@hersheys.com. Please be sure to include “Accommodation Needed” in the subject line. This will ensure that your email is routed to the appropriate contact who will handle your request.