Senior Manager Category Management, Procurement

The Hershey Company
📍 Hershey, PA, United States 💼 Full-time 🕒 Posted June 24, 2026

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Manager Category Manager, Procurement *Summary:* Deliver Hershey’s innovation and growth agenda in partnership with R&D, Marketing, Supply Chain and suppliers. This role focuses on identifying and developing suppliers with high innovation capabilities, advanced technologies, and sustainable solutions while accelerating speed-to-market for breakthrough initiatives. This position establishes end-to-end procurement innovation readiness while ensuring strategies are in place to create a competitive advantage, manage intellectual property rights, drive supply resilience, and improve efficiencies. *Responsibilities: * 1. Develop and execute front-of-funnel innovation sourcing opportunities achieved through cross-functional partnerships with R&D, Marketing, Legal, Supply Chain and Procurement 2. Partner with R&D and Brand Marketing to identify white space opportunities, develop intellectual property roadmaps and source external capabilities to support the longer-term resea...

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Job Details

  • Location Hershey, PA
  • Job Type Full-time
  • Category other-general
  • Posted Date June 24, 2026
  • Application Deadline June 28, 2026