Assoc Mgr Materials Planner

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 Associate Manager, Materials Planner plays a key role in enabling supply chain readiness for Hershey’s packaging, ingredients, and paste initiatives. In this role, you will lead Materials Management project work across multiple concurrent initiatives, helping ensure materials, systems, processes, and cross-functional partners are aligned from project design through implementation and go-live. This role supports Hershey’s portfolio renovation and reformulation strategy by helping maintain operational continuity, manage risks, and deliver business value while meeting evolving consumer needs.    This role executes planning activities that may span teams or functions, applies intermediate expertise to manage projects or processes within supply planning or operations planning, and influences outcomes through execution quality and analysis. What will you do?

Serve as the Materials Management project lead for Packaging, Ingredients, and Paste initiatives, managing multiple concurrent projects and supporting execution from project design through implementation and go-live. Assess impacts to current operations and coordinate required setup activities across SAP S/4 configuration, contracts, planning systems, transportation lanes, network extensions, and inventory strategies. Partner closely with Materials Management, Procurement, Manufacturing, Demand Planning, MA, and OBD teams to align requirements, complete system setups, mitigate risks, and support successful project execution. Drive supply chain readiness by helping ensure the right materials are available in the right quantities, at the right location, and at the right time. Provide regular updates, issue resolution, and project status reporting to support transparency and alignment with the broader project team. Analyze inventory performance, material availability, and planning gaps; recommend adjustments that improve operational efficiency, materials flow, service levels, and inventory outcomes. Support CI/CA project entry, contribute to special projects and