Strategic Commercial Manager (Remote)

Hershey Company; United States; Remote; USD 79,000 - 98,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid time off

Flexible ways of working

Job summary

The Hershey Company is seeking a skilled strategy professional to deliver day-to-day customer strategy analyses and support for defined customers or projects. You will apply established methods for segmentation, analysis, and commercial positioning to produce accurate outputs and shape recommendations with Sales SMEs.

You will synthesize POS, consumer, and market data into actionable strategies, and prepare concise materials for internal and customer-facing use, contributing to process

Qualifications

• 3+ years of combined experience in a leading CPG company or strategy consulting firm; CPG experience is strongly preferred.
• Background across multiple disciplines, with emphasis on strategy, finance, marketing, and sales.
• Experience leading strategic and data-driven recommendations and decisions.
• Understanding of market research methods and syndicated data.
• Experience driving change in a complex business environment.

Responsibilities

• Maintain an external mindset by translating consumer, customer, competitive, and macroeconomic trends into actionable insights.
• Own and execute strategy projects with minimal oversight.
• Lead complex problem solving on strategic issues and decisions.
• Guide, develop, and mentor small project teams of indirect contributors from start to finish with a high degree of autonomy.
• Synthesize internal and external data, including point-of-sale, household panel, inventory, shipment, and P&L information, into business recommendations and strategies.
• Develop clear executive-level presentations for the CEO, Executive Committee updates, Board presentations, and external speaking engagements.

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

The Hershey Company is seeking a skilled strategy professional to deliver day-to-day customer strategy analyses and support for defined customers or projects. You will apply established methods for segmentation, analysis, and commercial positioning to produce accurate outputs and shape recommendations with Sales SMEs.

You will synthesize POS, consumer, and market data into actionable strategies, and prepare concise materials for internal and customer-facing use, contributing to process