[Hiring] Staff Privacy Management @The Hershey Company

Role Description

The Staff Privacy Management role is a leader that will shape and drive the strategy, platforms, and integrations that enable consumer privacy, compliance, marketing consent, compliant data activation, and enterprise trust across our commercial digital ecosystem. This is a senior individual contributor role for a technologist who can move fluidly between shaping multi-year strategy with the Chief Privacy Officer's organization and hands-on delivery of platform capabilities that keep Hershey compliant, competitive, and consumer-centric.

As Hershey scales its ONE Hershey commercial engine and expands first-party data, personalization, AI, and agentic capabilities, privacy technology moves from a compliance function to a strategic enabler of marketing effectiveness and consumer trust. This role owns the vision, architecture, and operating model for how that capability is delivered.

Key Interfaces

• Chief Privacy Officer, VP Legal, and enterprise Privacy leadership
• VP-level Commercial partners across Digital Marketing, Consumer Experience, B2B, D2C, and The Hershey Experience
• Legal and Privacy teams
• Enterprise Architecture, Security, Infrastructure, Data & Analytics, and Integration teams
• Implementation partner delivery teams
• External platform vendors and managed service providers

What will you do?

• Strategy & Thought Leadership
  • Define and evolve Hershey's privacy technology strategy in partnership with the Chief Privacy Officer's organization, Legal, and Commercial leadership, ensuring the enterprise moves from reactive compliance to privacy-by-design.
  • Serve as Hershey's Commercial IS subject matter authority on emerging privacy technologies and translate regulatory shifts into a proactive Hershey roadmap.
  • Represent Commercial IS in enterprise conversations on consumer trust, first-party data monetization, AI data governance, and marketing consent.
  • Anticipate regulatory and market inflection points and shape Hershey's technology response ahead of compliance deadlines.
• Platform & Product Ownership
  • Serve as the product and platform owner for privacy and consent management capabilities.
  • Own the multi-year privacy technology roadmap, backlog prioritization, and value narrative.
  • Lead privacy technology initiatives related to Global Privacy Control and responsible data handling.
  • Oversee integration patterns between privacy platforms and marketing technologies.
  • Support and govern data flows involving OneTrust, Adobe Experience Platform, and related systems.
• Operating Model & Delivery Design
  • Design and operate a sustainable hybrid delivery model.
  • Own the make-versus-buy-versus-partner decision framework for privacy platform capabilities.
  • Ensure knowledge transfer, documentation, and cross-training practices are in place.
  • Guide offshore development teams through issue resolution and production support.
  • Collaborate with external vendors and implementation partners to define scopes of work.
• Business Partnership & Delivery
  • Serve as the primary Commercial IS partner to the Privacy organization and VP-level business leaders.
  • Broker outcomes across compliance, experience, and marketing effectiveness.
  • Partner with Legal, Privacy, Marketing, and business stakeholders to translate needs into clear requirements.
  • Participate in Agile ceremonies for privacy, MarTech, and consumer data workstreams.
  • Lead quarterly planning preparation for the designated area.
  • Partner with Commercial Digital leaders to identify opportunities for improvement.
  • Maintain strong relationships with cross-functional stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 5 - 7+ years of experience in Information Technology, digital platforms, privacy technology, MarTech, data management, or related solution delivery roles.
• Demonstrated experience shaping strategy and roadmap for privacy, consent, or data governance capabilities in a large enterprise environment.
• Experience supporting or leading privacy, consent, customer data, marketing technology, or compliance-related platforms.
• Hands-on familiarity with OneTrust or comparable consent/privacy management platforms.
• Experience with consumer data and marketing platforms.
• Experience working with integration technologies, data pipelines, APIs, cloud platforms, and reporting tools.
• Proven ability to influence at VP and C-suite altitude.
• Demonstrated ability to work with Legal, Privacy, Marketing, Digital, IS, vendor, and implementation partner teams.
• Experience operating in Agile delivery models.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, documentation, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Experience

• IAPP certification — CIPP/US, CIPM, or CIPT.
• Working knowledge of privacy regulations and operational implications.
• Experience with modern privacy engineering platforms.
• Experience designing consent orchestration architectures.
• Experience with AI/ML data governance.
• Familiarity with data clean rooms and Privacy Enhancing Technologies.
• Experience with enterprise digital ecosystem technologies.
• Experience managing vendors and driving technology handoffs.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Business Administration, Data/Analytics, Engineering, or a related field; equivalent experience may be considered.

Benefits

• Health & Wellbeing: Medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus wellness programs.
• 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.
• Growth & Development: Career development programs, learning opportunities, and internal mobility.
• Benefits may vary based on role, location, and eligibility.