Administrative Assistant

Hershey Company; Goodyear (AZ); On-site; USD 51,000 - 63,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Flexible working where applicable

Job summary

The Hershey Company is seeking an Administrative Assistant in Goodyear, AZ to provide essential clerical and office support. You will greet visitors, manage communications, schedule meetings, and assist HR onboarding activities in a collaborative team environment.

This entry-level role offers exposure to office operations, data entry, records management, and a pathway to develop organizational skills while contributing to Hershey’s mission and workplace efficiency.

Qualifications

• Experience: Prior administrative, office, customer service, or HR support experience is preferred.
• Education: High school diploma or equivalent required; associate degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide reception and frontline support by greeting visitors, answering and routing calls, and responding to routine inquiries using established guidelines.
• Complete general administrative tasks, including document preparation, sorting, filing, scanning, copying, mailing, data entry, and maintaining organized records.
• Support basic scheduling, meetings, orientations, visitors, and office or employee events by confirming details, recording updates, and coordinating routine logistics.
• Help maintain office operations by handling mail and shipments, monitoring supplies, and using printers, scanners, Microsoft Office 365, and other administrative tools.
• Provide routine support for onboarding, offboarding, employee records, training logs, badges, keycards, and other established HR or office processes as assigned.
• Track information accurately, protect sensitive information, communicate updates promptly, and elevate questions that fall outside the role's scope.

Skills

Administrative support

Customer service

Communication

Organizational skills

Data entry

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Associate degree preferred

Tools

Microsoft Office 365

Job description

Note: If you apply for a role at Hershey through our career's website, we may use technologies that use automation to filter your candidacy based on objective criteria. We also use AI-enabled tools that help us facilitate the selection of our future Hershey talent. These tools may help with activities such as matching and scoring candidates to roles based on requirements and scheduling interviews. These systems process only the information you provide in your application, including your resume, work history, education, and responses to screening questions. While these technologies assist with certain steps in our recruitment process and may provide recommendations, all final decisions, including those affecting whether candidates advance to subsequent stages in the applicant process, are made by our talent acquisition teams with meaningful human review and independent judgment. Depending on your location and the specific role you apply for, additional disclosures about our use of AI in recruitment may be provided to you separately.

Administrative Assistant

Location: Goodyear, AZ

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.

About The Hershey Company

The Hershey Company (NYSE: HSY) is an industry-leading snacks company known for making more moments of goodness through its iconic brands. With a strong portfolio across chocolate, confectionery, and salty snacks, Hershey delights consumers every day. Our beloved brands include Hershey's, Reese's, KitKat, Dots Pretzels, Lesser Evil, Jolly Rancher, Twizzlers, Ice Breakers, and more.

At Hershey, we are committed to making a meaningful difference in the communities where we live, work, and do business. This commitment originated with our founder, Milton Hershey, and continues to shape who we are today.

Guided by our employee value proposition, Lead Today. Create Tomorrow, we empower our people to drive impact now while shaping what comes next. Our One Hershey mindset brings teams together across functions, geographies, and businesses, enabling us to operate with speed, collaboration, and shared purpose.

The Hershey Company is proud to be recognized as a top employer in the United States, reflecting our commitment to our people, culture, and purpose.

How will you fit in the big picture?

As an Administrative Assistant, you will provide essential clerical and operational support that helps the office run smoothly. This entry-level role completes routine administrative tasks with accuracy and timeliness, supports employees and visitors, and builds foundational skills in communication, documentation, scheduling, and administrative systems. You will be part of a collaborative team where dependable support helps create more moments of goodness every day.

What will you do?

• Provide reception and frontline support by greeting visitors, answering and routing calls, and responding to routine inquiries using established guidelines.
• Complete general administrative tasks, including document preparation, sorting, filing, scanning, copying, mailing, data entry, and maintaining organized records.
• Support basic scheduling, meetings, orientations, visitors, and office or employee events by confirming details, recording updates, and coordinating routine logistics.
• Help maintain office operations by handling mail and shipments, monitoring supplies, and using printers, scanners, Microsoft Office 365, and other administrative tools.
• Provide routine support for onboarding, offboarding, employee records, training logs, badges, keycards, and other established HR or office processes as assigned.
• Track information accurately, protect sensitive information, communicate updates promptly, and elevate questions that fall outside the role's scope.

Minimum Requirements

Experience: Prior administrative, office, customer service, or HR support experience is preferred

Education: High school diploma or equivalent required; associate degree or technical certification preferred.

Benefits and Perks

At Hershey, we offer competitive pay and a comprehensive total rewards package designed to support your wellbeing, financial security, and life outside of work.

• Health & Wellbeing: Medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus wellness programs that support your physical and mental health
• Financial Security: Competitive pay, annual incentive opportunities, and a 401(k) with company match
• Time Off & Flexibility: Paid time off, company holidays, and flexible ways of working where applicable
• Growth & Development: Career development programs, learning opportunities, and internal mobility

Benefits may vary based on role, location, and eligibility.

The anticipated base salary range for this role is $50,500 to $63,100 per year. The actual base salary offered will depend on a variety of jobrelated factors, including, but not limited to, experience, skill set, education, and training. In addition to a market-competitive base salary, our Total Rewards package includes performance-based incentives and a comprehensive, competitive benefits package designed to support overall physical, mental, and financial wellbeing (as applicable). Learn more about Hershey's benefits and all the resources Hershey provides to support our employees' physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing by visiting the Hershey Digital Employee Experience at www.askHRbenefits.hersheys.com

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 [phone] and leave a voicemail with your contact information. You may also email a request for accommodation to [e-mail]. 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.