Manager, Human Rights

Manager, Human Rights

Requisition Number: 129201

The Manager of Human Rights is responsible for developing and implementing The Hershey Company's human rights strategy across its global operations and supply chain. This role leads enterprise-wide human rights due and environmental diligence (HREDD), human rights disclosures and rater ranker surveys, ensures compliance with relevant regulations, provides expert advisory services to leadership, and engages with external stakeholders to advance the company's human rights agenda.

This role also leads Hershey’s living wage and income agenda along with the company’s work to improve the financial resilience of farmers and workers in prioritized agricultural supply chains. Reporting to the Head of Sustainability & ESG, this position plays a critical role in identifying and mitigating human rights risks while driving continuous improvement of Hershey's human rights programs and initiatives and reporting.

• Develop and advance Hershey's enterprise-wide human rights strategy, including policy setting and saliency assessments
• Establish effective human rights governance frameworks with clear decision-making processes and issue escalation protocols
• Work with strategy teams on the design and cross-organizational implementation of new human rights initiatives
• Coordinate with environmental teams to integrate human rights and environmental due diligence into systems and processes , while advancing an approach that aligns environmental progress with support for people and communities

• Lead enterprise approach to human rights voluntary and mandatory reporting and disclosures
• Own the process of creating and auditing HRDD disclosure reports and oversee signoff processes
• Support continuous improvement of data quality and identify opportunities for automation
• Work with internal audit, legal, and compliance teams to ensure due diligence meets requirements
• Monitor progress on human rights efforts and resolve obstacles

• Provide expert advisory services to business units and leadership on human rights topics
• Build and maintain relationships with external stakeholders, including NGOs
• Represent Hershey in cross-sector efforts and technical forums
• Engage externally to stay current with latest industry trends and developments
• Own the enterprise HREDD strategy across Hershey’s value chain including developing and managing risk assessment processes, best practices on supplier and farm level due diligence and remediation, informing enterprise traceability requirements, and ongoing development and continuous improvement in close partnership with legal to reflect evolving regulation, best practice, and business context
• Own the enterprise compliance readiness roadmap for human rights, coordinating with the cocoa, responsible sourcing legal, ethics and compliance to track regulatory deadlines, manage milestones, and ensure integration into financial planning cycles
• Manage cross-functional working groups to monitor progress and address bottlenecks
• Identify and mitigate human rights-related risks, including reputational, operational, and financial risks
• Coordinate with procurement on business impact assessments and mitigation plans

• Lead enterprise living wage and living income initiatives, coordinating across HR, responsible sourcing, and cocoa teams to ensure coherent, measurable approaches to closing income gaps in priority supply chains
• Define and maintain Hershey’s enterprise framework for financial resilience, including establishing the definitions, criteria, indicators, and thresholds used to assess farmer and worker economic wellbeing across prioritized agricultural supply chains
• Partner with procurement teams to identify, evaluate, and prioritize projects and interventions that strengthen farmer and worker financial resilience, providing strategic guidance on program design, supplier selection criteria, and investment scale
• Engage with external partners, industry coalitions, and peer companies to stay current on best practices, tools, and…