Sr Director Waste

The Hershey Company; Hershey (PA); Hybrid; USD 197,000 - 246,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Wellbeing

Financial Security

Time Off & Flexibility

Growth & Development

Job summary

The Hershey Company is seeking a Senior Director, Waste, to lead an enterprise-wide agenda aimed at reducing waste across manufacturing, inventory, and customer channels. You will connect plant operations, planning and finance to improve visibility, align decisions, and deliver measurable business impact in a high-influence leadership role.

You will translate strategy into short- to medium-term priorities, sponsor improvements to planning systems and data structures, and advise senior executives

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
• Experience: 13+ years of relevant experience, including progressive leadership across multiple parts of the supply chain such as manufacturing, planning, and supply/demand. Demonstrated success leading enterprise-scale change, influencing senior executives, and managing complex cross-functional programs.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-disciplinary teams across Integrated Portfolio Management, demand forecasting, scenario planning, risk management, manufacturing, and commercial planning to deliver cohesive operational plans.
• Translate enterprise strategy into short- to medium-term priorities, establishing process discipline, performance standards, and integration across upstream and downstream partners.
• Sponsor substantial improvements to planning systems, data structures, workflows, and forecasting methodologies to increase agility, efficiency, and decision quality.
• Advise senior executives on planning insights, risk scenarios, resource needs, priority shifts, and portfolio implications to support high-impact decisions.
• Partner with Finance, Supply Chain, Sales, and other functions to align planning assumptions, resolve complex demand and inventory trade-offs, and enable coordinated execution.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business, or a related field

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:

This position is based in Hershey, PA with a hybrid schedule of three days a week onsite; relocation provided

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

At The Hershey Company, we make more moments of goodness through some of the world's most iconic brands, including Hershey's, Reese's, Kit Kat, Jolly Rancher, Twizzlers, Dot's Pretzels, Lesser Evil and more. Our team supports a global portfolio of over 90 brands, creating opportunities to shape strategies and drive impact across a breadth of businesses that few companies can offer. While many organizations focus on a handful of brands, Hershey provides exposure to a diverse portfolio of category-leading brands enjoyed by consumers around the world. What truly sets us apart is our legacy. Inspired by Milton Hershey's belief that business should create opportunity for others, we have been making a positive impact for more than a century through our commitment to communities, philanthropy, and our longstanding partnership with Milton Hershey School. When you join Hershey, you become part of a company where purpose, growth, and making a difference are woven into how we do business every day.

How will you fit in the big picture?

As Senior Director, Waste, you will lead an enterprise-wide agenda to reduce waste across manufacturing, inventory, and customer channels. You will connect plant operations, supply and demand planning, commercial teams, Finance, Sales, and Supply Chain to improve visibility, align decisions, and deliver measurable business impact. This is a high-influence leadership role for a supply chain executive who can translate complex risk and planning inputs into clear priorities and action.

What will you do?

• Lead cross-disciplinary teams across Integrated Portfolio Management, demand forecasting, scenario planning, risk management, manufacturing, and commercial planning to deliver cohesive operational plans.
• Translate enterprise strategy into short- to medium-term priorities, establishing process discipline, performance standards, and integration across upstream and downstream partners.
• Sponsor substantial improvements to planning systems, data structures, workflows, and forecasting methodologies to increase agility, efficiency, and decision quality.
• Advise senior executives on planning insights, risk scenarios, resource needs, priority shifts, and portfolio implications to support high-impact decisions.
• Partner with Finance, Supply Chain, Sales, and other functions to align planning assumptions, resolve complex demand and inventory trade-offs, and enable coordinated execution.

Minimum Education & Requirements

Education: Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.

Experience: 13+ years of relevant experience, including progressive leadership across multiple parts of the supply chain such as manufacturing, planning, and supply/demand. Demonstrated success leading enterprise-scale change, influencing senior executives, and managing complex cross-functional programs.

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 begin on Day 1.
• 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 $196,800 to $246,000per 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. 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.

Nearest Major Market: Harrisburg