Strategic Privileged Access Leader

Hershey Company; Hershey (PA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & Wellbeing

Financial Security

Time Off & Flexibility

Growth & Development

Job summary

The Hershey Company is seeking a Staff Privileged Access Solutions Manager to lead the evolution of its PAM program and strengthen privileged access controls across a global environment.

You will define the vision, roadmap, and operating model for PAM, work with IAM, security, and infrastructure teams, and drive initiatives that reduce risk while delivering enterprise-wide security outcomes. This role partners with MSPs and cross-functional teams to ensure successful program outcomes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Cybersecurity, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in information technology, cybersecurity, identity and access management, security operations, security architecture, or security governance.
• 3+ years leading Privileged Access Management capabilities or similar.
• 3+ years leading cross-functional initiatives, technical teams, or managed service providers.

Responsibilities

• Define, enhance, and execute the enterprise PAM strategy, roadmap, governance model, and operating standards.
• Lead PAM program planning, prioritization, risk management, resource coordination, and delivery.
• Partner with infrastructure, cloud, application, security, audit, compliance, and business teams to prioritize PAM onboarding and adoption based on risk and business impact.
• Manage the full privileged account lifecycle, including discovery, onboarding, credential vaulting, rotation, access reviews, session monitoring, and decommissioning.
• Expand PAM coverage across administrator accounts, service accounts, application accounts, APIs, secrets, automation credentials, and cloud privileged access.
• Oversee PAM platform operations, vendor relationships, managed service delivery, incident support, and overall program performance.
• Establish metrics, reporting, adoption indicators, and control effectiveness measures to demonstrate risk reduction and program maturity.
• Drive automation, process simplification, operational efficiency, and user experience improvements while maintaining strong security controls.
• Support audits, control testing, investigations, remediation activities, and evidence collection.
• Provide leadership and direction to internal resources, managed service partners, and cross-functional project teams.

Skills

Privileged Access Management

IAM

Security governance

Cross-functional leadership

Cloud security

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / Information Security / IT

Tools

CyberArk

BeyondTrust

Delinea

Job description

The Hershey Company is seeking a Staff Privileged Access Solutions Manager to lead the evolution of its PAM program and strengthen privileged access controls across a global environment.

You will define the vision, roadmap, and operating model for PAM, work with IAM, security, and infrastructure teams, and drive initiatives that reduce risk while delivering enterprise-wide security outcomes. This role partners with MSPs and cross-functional teams to ensure successful program outcomes.