Mgr Responsible Sourcing

Mgr Responsible Sourcing Why Hershey

At The Hershey Company, our culture is rooted in purpose and inspired by Milton Hershey’s enduring vision that business should create opportunity for others. Through our commitment to corporate philanthropy, we create positive impact by supporting communities, helping children thrive, and operating as a business for good. This includes our deep and long standing partnership with Milton Hershey School, where we invest in education, workforce readiness, and hands on engagement to help students succeed beyond the classroom.

Supported by strategic grantmaking, product donations, cross brand collaboration, and strong employee volunteerism, Hershey offers a place to work where making a difference—locally and globally—is part of how we do business every day.

Mgr Responsible Sourcing

The Manager of Responsible Sourcing supports the development and leads implementation of responsible sourcing strategies across priority agricultural supply chains, including peanuts and almonds. This role partners closely with Procurement, Sustainability, R&D, suppliers, NGOs, and industry partners to design and implement programs that advance Hershey's sustainability and responsible sourcing commitments, mitigate and manage environmental and social risks, and improve supply chain resilience.

This role also represents Hershey in relevant industry groups, coalitions, and multi-stakeholder forums to advance shared learning and collective action on ingredient resilience. Reporting to the Director of Responsible Sourcing, this position plays a key role in translating strategy into on-the-ground programs, roadmaps and performance measures that strengthen supply chain resilience and deliver measurable environmental and social outcomes.

• Develop, implement, and manage responsible sourcing strategies, roadmaps and program implementation plans for assigned priority agricultural supply chains to deliver measurable environmental, social, and business outcomes.
• Assess and provide recommendations on investment opportunities that strengthen agricultural productivity, farmer livelihoods, supply continuity, and ingredient resilience.
• Identify and prioritize material environmental and social risks, including climate impacts, biodiversity loss, water stress, deforestation, labor risks, and farmer vulnerability to inform strategic priorities based on landscape-, sourcing region-, and supply shed-level analyses.
• Support implementation of risk-based supplier and farm-level due diligence activities, including risk assessment, mitigation planning, corrective action tracking, remediation support, and continuous improvement.
• Partner with Human Rights, Sustainability, Procurement, suppliers, and external stakeholders to support initiatives that strengthen farmer and worker financial resilience in priority sourcing regions.
• Partner with Procurement, Sustainability, R&D, Manufacturing, and Legal teams to integrate responsible sourcing objectives into sourcing strategies and business decision-making.
• Support development and continuous improvement of ingredient-specific due diligence, traceability, monitoring, and risk management approaches, reflecting evolving regulations, best practices, stakeholder expectations, and business priorities.

• Build and manage supplier, NGO, industry, and other external partner relationships to design and deliver responsible sourcing ingredient programs.
• Collaborate with suppliers and implementation partners to design and execute locally appropriate interventions that improve sustainability outcomes, farmer resilience, and supply chain resilience.
• Establish supplier and program performance expectations, monitoring mechanisms, and improvement plans to deliver intended environmental and social outcomes.
• Identify implementation risks, gaps, and resource needs, developing mitigation plans and escalating issues when necessary.

• Monitor and report progress against responsible sourcing ingredient sustainability commitments and programs.
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