Sr Mgr QRC

Location:

Hershey, PATravel: 40%-60% 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.

How will you fit in the big picture?

This position has direct reports and is responsible for the execution of the company’s Product Excellence Program within The Hershey Company facilities-internal plants, coman, copack and distribution network for the Salty Network in US and Canada.  This position is responsible for food safety, food quality and regulatory aspects within this scope.  The position leads a team that supports capital projects, innovation projects, capacity projects, continuous improvement projects, program execution, and daily operations.
This position works with many functions across the company. What will you do?

Provide quality and regulatory leadership across the Salty Snacks network by executing the Salty Quality strategy, ensuring PEP program compliance, and making risk-based decision that ensures compliance, protects consumers, and advances business objectives.

Lead quality integration for innovation, commercialization, productivity, and capital initiatives by defining quality requirements, driving risk assessment and mitigation activities, ensuring effective application of food safety and quality design principles, and enabling successful launch and scale-up of new products, processes, and technologies

Lead team to establish quality systems including food safety plans, HACCP, audit readiness, CAPA governance, validation and verification programs, quality design reviews, and startup approval processes for all new innovation, capacity lines, etc.

Build organizational capability by leading and developing a high-performing team of quality professionals.

Drive enterprise quality performance through data and insights by defining key performance indicators, identifying emerging risks and improvement opportunities, prioritizing resources, and leading cross-functional initiatives8 current internal Salty manufacturing plants, will be responsible for Lesser Evil post integration and any new mfg sites as part of Salty network strategy

Primary escalation contact for all Salty coman and copack network and partnership with CMG GMA sites who are mfg/packing Salty products.

Quality responsibility across 4 Salty DCs.

Minimum Requirements

Experience:

Minimum 7 years of manufacturing experience in a high-speed automated Consumer Goods environment required (food industry preferred)
Minimum 5 years of experience with progressive responsibility in Quality Assurance required. 5 years of leadership/management experience with direct reports desired.

Knowledge of Food Safety Modernization Act, HACCP, and/or UDSA regulatory compliance required.

Education:

Bachelors degree required, sci based field preferred. Certifications in SQF, PCQI, HACCP required.

Certification in Six Sigma desirable. Benefits & Perks At Hershey, we offer competitive pay and a comprehensive total rewards package designed to support your wellbeing, financial security, and life outside of work. Health & Wellbeing:
Medical, dental, and…