Manager, Design to Value

🕒 July 23

🔔 Pennsylvania – Remote

🔔 Pennsylvania – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

✍️ Designer

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The Hershey Company

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1894

🏭 Manufacturing

🛍️ eCommerce

🍽️ Food & Beverage

💰 Post-IPO Debt on 2023-04

Manufacturing • eCommerce • Food & Beverage

The Hershey Company is an industry-leading snacks company headquartered in Hershey, Pennsylvania, recognized for bringing goodness to the world through its iconic brands and extraordinary commitment to helping children succeed. Hershey is well-known for its wide range of chocolate and confectionery products, driven by a culture that values inclusion, employee development, and sustainable practices to ensure a positive impact on the community and the planet.

📋 Description

• Play a critical role in advancing our product design agenda, spearheading initiatives that enhance formulation optimization and overall product excellence. • Lead cross-functional collaborations that challenge assumptions and prioritize initiatives based on rigorous analysis, ensuring alignment with broader organizational goals. • Influence senior leadership by delivering structured, data-driven recommendations that guide medium- to long-term strategic planning. • Take ownership of product design initiatives program, including organizing workshops, managing projects, defining scopes, developing business cases, and maintaining comprehensive roadmaps. • Critically evaluate and prioritize product design decisions in collaboration with cross-functional teams, with a focus on formulation, consumer sensory experience, and manufacturability. • Collaborate with initiative owners to refine value propositions, assess underlying assumptions, identify risks, and establish clear success metrics. • Prepare and present concise, decision-ready reports for executive leadership that distill complex trade-offs and strategic recommendations.

🎯 Requirements

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related discipline is required. • Preferably 5 to 7 years of experience in commercial roles, digital transformation, supply chain management, or strategy development within consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies or consulting firms. • Exceptional capability to synthesize complex information and influence senior stakeholders with executive-ready presentations that clarify decisions, risks, and next steps. • Strong analytical skills to maintain comprehensive data on SKU volumes, change management, and capacity constraints essential for project sequencing and resource allocation. • Proficiency in product design fundamentals, enabling translation of consumer insights into innovative, cost-effective, and manufacturable solutions that enhance consumer experience. • Must have strong communication skills to effectively engage diverse stakeholders at all organizational levels.

🏖️ Benefits

• Deep and long standing partnership with Milton Hershey School • Corporate philanthropy • Employee volunteerism