Sr Mgr Supplier Quality Systems

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Posted Date:
Sep 23, 2026

Requisition Number: 130386

Location:

Hershey, PA

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.

This position has direct and indirect reports with responsibility to establish and execute strategy for Supplier Quality System as part of The Hershey Company’s Product Excellence Program Globally. This includes all ingredients, complex ingredients (eg. chocolate pastes) and packaging materials for Hershey’s global manufacturing, coman and copack network. Position has responsibility to ensure compliance of FDA’s Supply Chain Preventive Control and like regulations globally.

The position leads a team that supports innovation projects, continuous improvement and formulation changes working with many functions across the company.

• Provide strategic leadership for Hershey's global Supplier Quality Management (SQM) program by establishing quality, food safety, regulatory, and supplier governance strategies that ensure the reliable supply of ingredients and packaging materials while protecting consumers, brands, and business continuity worldwide
• Lead the development, deployment, and continuous improvement of global supplier quality systems, standards, and approval processes, including supplier qualification, risk assessment, audit programs, material approval, regulatory compliance, and supplier performance management to ensure consistent execution across all regions and business units.
• Drive supplier risk mitigation, resilience, and strategic partnership programs across Hershey's ingredient and packaging portfolio by leveraging risk-based decision making, supplier capability assessments, quality metrics, and cross-functional collaboration to strengthen supply continuity, accelerate innovation, and reduce supplier-related incidents
• Build and develop a high-performing global Supplier Quality organization by…