[Hiring] Associate Manager Design to Value @The Hershey Company

Role Description

The Associate Manager Design to Value provides analytical support for the Design to Value program, enabling fact-based decision making across teams, supporting baselining, tracking, benchmarking, and valuing.

• Build and maintain product and business fact bases through analysis of product performance, cost structures, value chain drivers, market dynamics, and competitive intelligence to support fact-based decision making.
• Conduct cost, value, financial, and business analyses, including cost teardowns, benchmarking, trade-off assessments, and business model evaluations, to identify value creation, growth, partnership, and investment opportunities across products and portfolios.
• Develop decision-ready insights and recommendations by synthesizing complex data into clear business implications, risks, opportunities, and strategic options for leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Support product roadmaps and strategic initiatives by managing project plans, milestones, dependencies, timelines, and deliverables to ensure alignment, transparency, and effective execution across multiple teams.
• Monitor market, industry, competitive, and technology trends to assess implications for growth, profitability, product strategy, and market positioning, and communicate actionable insights to stakeholders.
• Enable governance and execution excellence through performance tracking, reporting, issue identification and escalation, stakeholder coordination, and maintenance of project documentation to drive accountability and achievement of business objectives.

Qualifications

• At least 3-5 years commercial, digital, supply chain, or strategy experience in consumer packaged goods (CPG) or consulting preferred.
• Strong analytical capability to integrate large data sets, create intuitive visualization, and draw insights.
• Create executive-ready written summaries in the forms of visualizations, PowerPoint slides, and written analysis.
• Program operations discipline to track ownership, meeting/action management, and crisp written synthesis.
• Financial and business literacy to understand P&L, CAPEX, cash flow, and cross-functional context for decisions as well as implications.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Engineering, or other analytical subject preferred.

Benefits

• 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.