What are the responsibilities and job description for the Manager, Enterprise Transformation position at The Hershey Company?
Job Location: Remote
Role Overview
The Manager, Enterprise Modernization is responsible for translating enterprise strategy into scalable capabilities and measurable enterprise value creation. This role operates at the intersection of strategy, value creation, and execution, supporting Hershey’s Enterprise Modernization agenda by shaping, launching, and scaling initiatives that improve how the business operates and delivers financial and operational impact.
The role partners closely with Enterprise Strategy, Commercial, Supply Chain, Finance, HR, and Technology to ensure modernization investments are value-backed, execution ready, and designed for enterprise adoption. The Manager plays a hands-on role in moving initiatives from value case through deployment, while ensuring rigor in decision-making, governance, benefits realization, and sustained impact.
Accountabilities
Enterprise Capability Development & Value Creation
This role ensures Hershey’s Enterprise Modernization investments convert into enduring capabilities and sustained enterprise value creation. The Manager serves as a critical bridge between enterprise strategy and execution—helping the company modernize how it operates while maintaining financial rigor, adoption, and results.
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.
Role Overview
The Manager, Enterprise Modernization is responsible for translating enterprise strategy into scalable capabilities and measurable enterprise value creation. This role operates at the intersection of strategy, value creation, and execution, supporting Hershey’s Enterprise Modernization agenda by shaping, launching, and scaling initiatives that improve how the business operates and delivers financial and operational impact.
The role partners closely with Enterprise Strategy, Commercial, Supply Chain, Finance, HR, and Technology to ensure modernization investments are value-backed, execution ready, and designed for enterprise adoption. The Manager plays a hands-on role in moving initiatives from value case through deployment, while ensuring rigor in decision-making, governance, benefits realization, and sustained impact.
Accountabilities
Enterprise Capability Development & Value Creation
- Supports the design and delivery of enterprise business capabilities aligned to Hershey’s enterprise strategy and long-term value priorities
- Translates strategic priorities into clearly defined initiatives, roadmaps, and execution plans
- Ensures initiatives are structured to deliver measurable financial and operational outcomes
- Partners with initiative owners to develop and refine value cases, assumptions, risks, and success metrics
- Leads cross-functional teams through enterprise stage gate and governance processes
- Prepares clear, decision-ready materials for senior leaders, synthesizing complex tradeoffs and recommendations
- Owns day-to-day leadership of assigned modernization initiatives and capability builds
- Coordinates workstreams across business and technology teams, managing dependencies and delivery risks
- Drives initiatives from pilot → scale → sustain, with a focus on enterprise adoption and embedded ways of working
- Acts as a connective leader across Strategy, Commercial, Supply Chain, Finance, HR, and Technology
- Influences outcomes without direct authority by aligning stakeholders around enterprise value and priorities
- Builds trusted relationships with functional leaders and execution teams
- Partners with Finance and Strategy to track benefits realization, productivity gains, and performance vs. plan
- Identifies risks to value delivery and drives corrective actions
- Drives governance and reporting (e.g., scorecards, Steering Committee materials)
- Serves as a practitioner and coach of enterprise modernization tools, governance, and ways of working
- Supports training, enablement, and change efforts
- Captures lessons learned to continuously improve how Hershey designs and scales capabilities
- Enterprise-wide initiatives spanning multiple functions, platforms, and geographies
- Value cases and initiatives with material financial, productivity, or capability impact
- High ambiguity and evolving priorities requiring structured problem solving
- Significant cross-functional dependency and stakeholder management
- Experience leading enterprise modernization or capability building initiatives
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills; ability to translate strategy into execution
- Demonstrated success leading initiatives in complex, matrixed environments
- Proven ability to influence without authority and manage senior stakeholders
- Min. 5-7 years commercial, digital, supply chain, or strategy experience in consumer packaged goods (CPG) or consulting preferred
This role ensures Hershey’s Enterprise Modernization investments convert into enduring capabilities and sustained enterprise value creation. The Manager serves as a critical bridge between enterprise strategy and execution—helping the company modernize how it operates while maintaining financial rigor, adoption, and results.
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.