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Sr Mgr, AI Business Modernization

Posted Date:  Oct 5, 2026
Requisition Number:  130630

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 Sr. Manager, AI Business Modernization will accelerate the U.S. business AI agenda by translating strategic priorities into a focused portfolio of AI products, agentic solutions, and digitally enabled capabilities that drive productivity, improve decision-making, and create measurable business value. Reporting to the Chief of Staff to the President, U.S., this role serves as the critical bridge between business strategy and enterprise AI capabilities, helping shape how AI transforms ways of working across the organization.

What will you do?

  • 1. Own the U.S. functional AI portfolio and roadmap, ensuring priorities align with business strategy, enterprise AI standards, and measurable value creation.
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  • 2. Serve as the business lead for AI priorities, balancing opportunity, feasibility, risk, and business impact.Identify, prioritize, and scale AI products, agentic solutions, and AI-enabled capabilities that improve commercial performance and productivity.
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  • 3. Partner with enterprise AI, IS, data, security, legal, and governance teams to deliver solutions aligned with enterprise standards.
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  • 4. Establish success metrics, adoption measures, and value targets for AI initiatives, tracking performance and business outcomes.
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  • 5. Partner with Finance and business leaders to quantify productivity improvements, financial impact, and realized value.
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  • 6. Evaluate portfolio performance and recommend opportunities to improve, accelerate, retire, or redesign solutions based on adoption and value.
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  • 7. Drive change management and AI adoption by helping leaders translate AI into new ways of working and business decision-making.
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  • 8. Build AI fluency through communications, training resources, practical use cases, and responsible AI education.
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  • 9. Create mechanisms to gather employee feedback, identify new opportunities, and surface adoption barriers and AI risks.
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  • 10. Develop repeatable playbooks, standards, and practices that enable scalable AI adoption across the U.S. business.

Minimum Education & Requirements

Experience:
  1. 7+ years of progressive experience in strategy, business transformation, product management, digital, analytics, technology-enabled growth, or enterprise capability building.
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Education:
  • Bachelor's degree required.
  • Advanced degree in Business, Strategy, Analytics, Technology, or a related field preferred.

Benefits and Perks

At Hershey, we offer competitive pay and a comprehensive total rewards package designed to support your wellbeing, financial security, and life outside of work.
  • 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.

The anticipated base salary range for this role is $143,120 to $178,900 per year. The actual base salary offered will depend on a variety of job‑related factors, including, but not limited to, experience, skill set, education, and training. In addition to a market-competitive base salary, our Total Rewards package includes performance‑based incentives and a comprehensive, competitive benefits package designed to support overall physical, mental, and financial well‑being (as applicable). Learn more about Hershey’s benefits and all the resources Hershey provides to support our employees’ physical, emotional, and financial well‑being by visiting the Hershey Digital Employee Experience at www.askHRbenefits.hersheys.com

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.  You may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access our online application process as a result of a disability.
You can request an accommodation via phone or email.To request an accommodation via phone, please call +1 877-804-1794 and leave a voicemail with your contact information.  You may also email a request for accommodation to ApplicationHelp@hersheys.com. Please be sure to include “Accommodation Needed” in the subject line. This will ensure that your email is routed to the appropriate contact who will handle your request.

 

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