Sr Mgr CoMan​/CoPacking Quality

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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 reports and is responsible for the execution of the company’s Product Excellence Program within The Hershey Company facilities to include-coman, copack for US Region Candy Mint & Gum (CMG) as well as The Hershey Experience and Food service business. This position is responsible for food safety, food quality and regulatory aspects within this scope. The position leads a team that supports innovation, capacity projects, continuous improvement projects, program execution, and daily operations.

This position works with many functions across the company.

• Provide quality and regulatory leadership across the CMG network by executing the 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 strategic 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 and leverage 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 initiatives