Mgr Supply Chain Packaging

Hershey Company; Hershey (PA); On-site; USD 114,000 - 143,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Wellbeing

Financial Security

Time Off & Flexibility

Growth & Development

Job summary

The Hershey Company is seeking a packaging-focused professional in Hershey, PA to lead technical packaging solutions. You will work across Commercial, Supply Chain, Operations, and Procurement to balance requirements, supplier capabilities, and regulations while driving sustainable packaging initiatives.

The role emphasizes innovation, ownership, and collaboration to deliver safe, reliable, and cost-efficient packaging that aligns with business goals and consumer preferences.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Supply Chain experience.
• Mentorship and guidance on the job is expected.
• Knowledge of packaging materials and related processes.
• Ability to collaborate across functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute technical packaging solutions.
• Ensure quality, scalability, and performance of packaging designs and deliverables.
• Solve complex packaging engineering problems using analysis and systems thinking.
• Introduce new methods or tools to enhance outcomes and team efficiency.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to deliver integrated packaging solutions.

Skills

Supply chain experience

Mentorship

Packaging knowledge

Materials knowledge

Cross-functional

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.

Location: Hershey, PA
Travel: 10-20%

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.

How will you fit in the big picture?

With strategic guidance, and executional autonomy this role is centered on innovation, new and improved ways of working, ownership and collaboration of defined spaces. It involves broad level understanding of challenges, requirements and problems to be solved and works to resolve by defining & selecting suitable materials and solutions that enhance product visibility and ease of handling while balancing manufacturing, supplier capabilities and regulations. The position works closely with suppliers and procurement, in addition to other cross-functional stakeholders to lead resolution of complex technical challenges through innovative methods and systems thinking. Collaboration with cross-functional teams such as Commercial, Supply Chain, Operations, Maintenance, Procurement, and OEMs is vital to deliver packaging solutions that are safe, reliable, cost-efficient, and aligned with business goals and consumer preferences. A strong emphasis is placed on developing sustainable packaging to minimize waste and meet evolving market demands.

What will you do?

Define and Execute Technical Solutions The role organizes and executes technical packaging solutions critical to product and team success. It ensures solutions meet requirements and timelines. This delivers reliable outcomes.

• Ensure Quality and Performance The role ensures quality, scalability, and performance of packaging designs and deliverables. It validates solutions against standards. This maintains packaging excellence.
• Solve Complex Problems The role solves complex packaging engineering problems using creative tools, research, and systems thinking. It analyzes issues and develops solutions. This addresses challenging requirements.
• Introduce New Methods The role introduces new methods or tools to enhance packaging outcomes and team efficiency. It evaluates innovations and recommends adoption. This advances capabilities.
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally The role collaborates with cross-functional partners to deliver integrated solutions. It coordinates on requirements and timelines. This enables effective teamwork.

Minimum Requirements

• 5+ years of Supply Chain experience
• Mentorship - The essence of training and mentoring on the job is transfer of knowledge. Whereas training can be considered more formal and scheduled, mentoring is often in the form of guidance and 'hands-on' experiences. The reporting relationship is unimportant since the purpose is to pass on information and experiences. These discussions normally center around a person's goal of learning job procedures, content, standards, analysis and problem-solving.
• Product Packaging - The technology of enclosing or protecting products for distribution, storage, sale, and use. Packaging also refers to the process of design, evaluation, and production of packages.
• Materials/Services Knowledge - Knowledge of the products and services required to operate the business, as well as how a particular function, product and/or service relates to that industry.
• Testing Methodologies - Testing Methodologies are the procedures, standards, test cycles, techniques, problem reporting, conventions, and approaches in place in the organization.
• Working Across Organizational Lines - Holding a position that requires understanding the interrelationships among key events by learning how problems fit into the bigger picture and confronting interdepartmental issues. Effectively working and communicating across functional boundaries. Influencing others without authority or direct control.

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 $114,480to $143,100per 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 performancebased 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.
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Nearest Major Market: Harrisburg