What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Scientist position at The Hershey Company?
Job Location: Remote
ROLE OVERVIEW:
Delivers advanced people analytics and predictive insights to enable strategic, fair, and data‑driven workforce decisions.
ACCOUNTABILITIES:
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.
ROLE OVERVIEW:
Delivers advanced people analytics and predictive insights to enable strategic, fair, and data‑driven workforce decisions.
ACCOUNTABILITIES:
- Develop advanced people analytics and predictive models to inform workforce planning, retention, and talent decisions.
- Deliver strategic workforce and talent insights by translating complex people data into actionable recommendations for HR leaders.
- Create executive‑ready insights and storytelling that clearly communicate workforce risks, opportunities, and tradeoffs.
- Ensure analytic rigor and continuous improvement through strong data science practices, documentation, and model refinement.
- Partner with analytics application developers to design and deliver advanced dashboards and analytics products that enable scalable, self‑service people insights.
- Stakeholder Interaction: Partners closely with HR COEs and leadership (e.g., Talent/Total Rewards/DEI/HRBPs) and cross-functional stakeholders to define questions, interpret results, and drive action.
- Influence/Impact: Ability to influence leaders and decision makers with data through visualization and insights.
- Strong proficiency in Posit, RConnect, RShiny, and GitLab for analytics application development and version control.
- Ability to present complex analytics concepts to non-technical audiences.
- Executive‑ready data storytelling skills, including clear visualizations, narratives, and recommendations.
- Strong analytic rigor and judgment, including data validation, documentation, and continuous improvement of models and methods.
- Stakeholder advising.
- Ability to partner cross‑functionally with HR COEs, Legal/DEI, IS, and people analytics team members to deliver scalable insight solutions.
- 5 years related experience
- Bachelors' degree required, Masters degree preferred
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.