Portfolio Manager

.buttontext3bcdfbbb7f250738 a{ border: 1px solid transparent; } .buttontext3bcdfbbb7f250738 a:focus{ border: 1px dashed #327bb8 !important; outline: none !important; } Note: If you apply for a role at Hershey through our career's website, we may use technologies that use automation to filter your candidacy based on objective criteria. We also use AI-enabled tools that help us facilitate the selection of our future Hershey talent. These tools may help with activities such as matching and scoring candidates to roles based on requirements and scheduling interviews. These systems process only the information you provide in your application, including your resume, work history, education, and responses to screening questions. While these technologies assist with certain steps in our recruitment process and may provide recommendations, all final decisions, including those affecting whether candidates advance to subsequent stages in the applicant process, are made by our talent acquisition teams with meaningful human review and independent judgment. Depending on your location and the specific role you apply for, additional disclosures about our use of AI in recruitment may be provided to you separately. Manager Portfolio Modernization Posted Date: Aug 12, 2026 Requisition Number: 129820 Location: Hershey, PA (remote, onsite/hybrid preferred) 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. About The Hershey Company The Hershey Company is an industry-leading snacks company known for making more moments of goodness through its iconic brands. With a strong portfolio across chocolate, confectionery, and salty snacks, Hershey delights consumers every day. Our beloved brands include Hershey's, Reese's, KitKat, Dots Pretzels, Lesser Evil, Jolly Rancher, Twizzlers, Ice Breakers, and more. At Hershey, we are committed to making a meaningful difference in the communities where we live, work, and do business. This commitment originated with our founder, Milton Hershey, and continues to shape who we are today. Guided by our employee value proposition, **Lead Today. Create Tomorrow, **we empower our people to drive impact now while shaping what comes next. Our One Hershey mindset brings teams together across functions, geographies, and businesses, enabling us to operate with speed, collaboration, and shared purpose. The Hershey Company is proud to be recognized as a top employer in the United States, reflecting our commitment to our people, culture, and purpose. How will you fit in the big picture? The Enterprise Modernization team builds and scales the capabilities that turn enterprise strategy into measurable business results. It works across functions to sharpen decisions, embed disciplined execution, and create repeatable capabilities that improve growth, efficiency, and effectiveness. Within Enterprise Modernization, the Portfolio Modernization team exists to improve how the enterprise makes and executes product portfolio choices by connecting portfolio innovation strategy, product lifecycle management, and portfolio complexity management. The Manager, Portfolio Modernization frames the portfolio questions for their workstream, develops fact-based recommendations, influences cross-functional decisions, and translates approved choices into executable roadmaps, PLM actions, stakeholder alignment, risk mitigation, and workstream-level value realization. This role will partner across Commercial, Supply Chain, Finance, R&D, PLM, Strategy, and other functional teams to ensure assigned portfolio modernization initiatives are strategically grounded, analytically rigorous, decision-ready, and execution-ready. Success in this role requires a balance of structured problem solving, portfolio analytics, business-case thinking, executive-ready synthesis, stakeholder influence without authority, and disciplined program execution through stage-gate ways of working. This is a consequential role because portfolio choices shape growth, margin, and the enterprise's capacity to execute. It is attractive to leaders who want to combine strategy with implementation, work across the full lifecycle from idea to end-of-life, and build capabilities that outlast any single initiative. What will you do? Lead assigned portfolio modernization workstreams from problem framing through execution readiness Drive portfolio and SKU analysis for assigned workstreams - connecting product, consumer, customer, and operational data Develop recommendations that translate complex data into clear strategic options, tradeoffs, and decision-ready choices for senior leaders Translate portfolio decisions into executable roadmaps with milestones, dependencies, owners, and value-tracking mechanisms Proactively manage risks, issues, and roadblocks, escalating tradeoffs and resource gaps with clear options/recommendations Influence cross-functional stakeholders with different priorities and align on recommendations and execution paths Support workstream-level value realization and performance management, including tracking financial impact and initiative performance Prepare decision-ready materials for workstream governance and leadership forums - clearly stating the issue, options, tradeoffs, recommendation, and required decision Minimum Education & Requirements Experience 5+ years of relevant experience in strategy, transformation, product or portfolio management, innovation or renovation, commercial operations, supply chain, manufacturing, PLM, category or revenue growth management, analytics, or consulting Demonstrated experience managing complex projects involving cross-functional teams and multiple stakeholders Demonstrated strong analytical skills with the ability to convert complex data on change volume and operational capacity into clear, actionable insights and strategic options. Excellent program management discipline, including ownership of trackers, effective meeting and action item facilitation, and precise written communication to synthesize complex information. Comfort and experience working within governance structures and portfolio tracking processes designed for long-term project visibility, accountability, and transparent reporting. Proven ability to collaborate across diverse teams and manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment Comfort with ambiguity, prioritization tradeoffs, and pivoting on new information Preferred experience Experience with portfolio management, PLM, stage-gate governance, SKU rationalization, assortment optimization, or complexity management Familiarity with CPG, consumer products, retail, or another portfolio-intensive industry Experience designing or operating governance forums with clear decision rights and value tracking Education Bachelor's Degree, preferably in Business, Engineering, or another analytically rigorous discipline. Benefits and 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 vision coverage, plus wellness programs that support your physical and mental health Financial Security: Competitive pay, annual incentive opportunities, and a 401(k) with company match Time Off & Flexibility: Paid time off, company holidays, and flexible ways of working where applicable Growth & Development: Career development programs, learning opportunities, and internal mobility Benefits may vary based on role, location, and eligibility. The Hershey Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The policy of The Hershey Company is to extend opportunities to qualified applicants and employees on an equal basis regardless of an individual's race, color, gender, age, national origin, religion, citizenship status, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, transgender status, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other categories protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. The Hershey Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer - Minority/Female/Disabled/Protected Veterans. You may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access our online application process as a result of a disability. You can request an accommodation via phone or email. To request an accommodation via phone, please call and leave a voicemail with your contact information. You may also email a request for accommodation to . Please be sure to include "Accommodation Needed" in the subject line. This will ensure that your email is routed to the appropriate contact who will handle your request. #LI-RF1 #LI-Remote Nearest Major Market: Harrisburg