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Lead High-Impact Procurement Workstreams Leads significant procurement workstreams, programs, or complex projects with measurable business impact. Ensures deliverables align with category strategies, risk governance, and financial objectives. Anticipates issues and applies advanced expertise to guide decisions.
Serve as a Trusted Advisor to Stakeholders Provides expert consultation to cross-functional teams on complex procurement matters. Communicates implications of sourcing decisions clearly to business partners. Influences stakeholders by explaining facts, risks, and trade-offs using advanced procurement knowledge.
Drive Supplier Performance and Issue Resolution Engages with suppliers to address difficult challenges involving quality, service, or contractual execution. Conducts analysis to understand multi-area impacts and recommends solutions requiring limited guidance. Ensures suppliers understand performance expectations and partners on corrective actions.
Advance Category Strategy and Insights Conducts advanced analysis, synthesizes insights, and proposes strategic options to category leaders. Evaluates market dynamics across multiple areas to inform decision-making. Identifies innovative sourcing approaches to improve resiliency, cost, or quality.
Lead Improvements in Procurement Practices Designs and implements process and policy improvements that enhance consistency, compliance, or efficiency. Guides peers on applying updated practices and tools. Ensures enhancements are scalable across teams and aligned with procurement governance.
Provide expert advice and guidance on complex procurement issues, acting as a trusted thought partner
Lead or contribute significantly to procurement projects and programs that impact division results
Analyze and resolve difficult challenges by understanding factors and impacts across multiple areas
Influence and collaborate with stakeholders across divisions to align procurement strategies and practices
Ensure operational targets are met through effective procurement planning and execution
Continuously deepen specialized procurement knowledge and skills to enhance team and organizational capabilities
Minimum Requirements
Experience: 5+ years of relevant experience
Procurement Processes Level 5: Understanding of the theory, practices and consequences of purchasing and acquiring products and services for the organization.
Data Analysis Level 5: Data Analysis is the process of identifying, evaluating, interpreting and organizing data so that it can be used for business decisions. It includes sorting through data to identify patterns and establish relationships. Includes knowledge of Structured Data, information with a high degree of organization, such that inclusion in a relational database is seamless and readily searchable by simple, straightforward search engine algorithms or other search operations. As well as, knowledge of Unstructured data (or unstructured information), information that either does not have a pre-defined data model or is not organized in a pre-defined manner. Unstructured information is typically text-heavy, but may contain data such as dates, numbers, and facts as well.nn
Supplier Management Level 5: The process of managing vendors and suppliers who provide products and services to the company. Understanding the process through which software and hardware products, as well as consulting and training services, are purchased for use in the corporation. This pertains to the development of RFI's and RFP's and understanding the roles each department plays in the process. It includes being able to incorporate necessary technical requirements into contracts.
Compliance Management Level 5: The supervision and observation regarding the organization's conformity to various standards, procedures, rules and regulations.
Work Order Management Level 1: Order Management is the administration of business processes related to orders for goods or services. An order management system (OMS) automates and streamlines order processing for businesses.
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 $106,160 to $132,700 per year. The actual base salary offered will depend on a variety of job‑related 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 well‑being (as applicable). Learn more about Hershey’s benefits and all the resources Hershey provides to support our employees’ physical, emotional, and financial well‑being 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 +1 877-804-1794 and leave a voicemail with your contact information. You may also email a request for accommodation to ApplicationHelp@hersheys.com. 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
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