Associate Manager Portfolio Operations

Job Title: Assoc Mgr Portfolio Operations

Job Location: 19 E. Chocolate Ave. Hershey, PA 17033

This role does require you to reside in Hershey, PA.

Summary:

Responsible for managing Commercial Governance for product development projects and advancing Portfolio Insights and Analytics to support prioritization and decision making in both CMG and Salty Snacks businesses.

 Role Responsibilities:

Portfolio Governance & Process

• Leads Commercial Governance Meetings and Process including confirming agendas, attendees, material readiness, and running meetings (including prioritizing topics, time management and follow-ups)
• Potential Governance Meetings to lead: Commercial Project Review (CPR) meetings for CMG business, Simple Stage Gate (SSG) meetings for Salty Snacks business, and Pre-Commercialization Project Governance meetings to support R&D
• Evaluates projects, working with Business Leaders and Acting Project Leaders, to ensure project readiness for Gate reviews
• Acts as Subject Matter Expert and provides stage-gate process guidance within Commercial Governance
• Advises on Process needs and helps to design and implement process improvements
• Supports continuous improvement of Accolade project management tool

Portfolio Analytics

• Creates and maintains Decision-Making Analysis and process metrics for Governance meetings
• Owns data gathering process; collaborate with other data owners to connect into enterprise data sources
• Develop dashboards and reporting for CMG and Salty Snacks project portfolio
• Generate insights on portfolio performance, trends, risks, areas for improvement, etc.
• Conduct Ad hoc analysis; develop hypothesis, aggregate findings, and determine recommendations
• Leads data accuracy for project portfolio data in Accolade
• Maintains single source of truth information for all projects

  Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business or Technical area required
• 2-3+ years work experience in an analytical and/or strategic role involving business processes
• Strong data & analytics skills.  Able to collect, transform, and display data using various tools (e.g. Excel, Power BI, Alteryx, etc.)
• Able to communicate with PowerPoint
• Attention to detail but capable of broad strategic overview
• Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills
• Strong ability to influence and persuade decision making at higher levels
• Capable of gaining trust and buy in from peers and leaders.  Mediator and conflict resolver.
• Knowledge of stage-gate process
• Multifunctional business acumen – marketing, R&D, finance, supply chain.
• Experience working across several business functions and with upper management preferred.

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

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