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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.\nAt 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.\nGuided by our employee value proposition, Lead Today. Create Tomorrow, we empower our people to drive impact now while shaping what comes next. Our One Hersheymindset brings teams together across functions, geographies, and businesses, enabling us to operate with speed, collaboration, and shared purpose.\nThe Hershey Company is proud to be recognized as a top employer in the United States, reflecting our commitment to our people, culture, and purpose.\nHow will you fit in the big picture?\nYou will be a key member of Hershey’s Global Sustainability Team and the enterprise focal point for operational sustainability performance and non-FLAG decarbonization coordination. You will combine technical expertise, analytics, and portfolio-level oversight to help advance Hershey’s environmental commitments across manufacturing and the broader value chain.\nThis role is based in Hershey, Pennsylvania, reports to the Director, Environmental Sustainability, and may require approximately 20% travel to operational facilities across the continental United States.\nWhat will you do?\nOperational performance: Monitor enterprise energy, water, waste, and emissions performance; identify trends, risks, and high-impact improvement opportunities across Hershey’s manufacturing network.\nEnergy and water expertise: Provide actionable insight on energy efficiency, fuel use, Scope 1 and 2 emissions, water use, high-risk watersheds, and high-consumption facilities.\nDashboards and investment support: Strengthen performance dashboards and executive reporting, and help prioritize sustainability capital projects and business cases.\nDecarbonization portfolio: Maintain non-FLAG emissions pathways, forecasts, scenario models, roadmap progress, dependencies, and performance visibility across functions.\nCross-functional delivery: Partner with Manufacturing, Engineering, Responsible Sourcing, Procurement, Finance, ESG Controllership, Supply Chain, logistics teams, suppliers, and co-manufacturing partners.\nRoadmap acceleration: Support supplier engagement, transportation and logistics decarbonization, internal waste reduction, acquired-business integration, and evaluation of emerging technology, data, and AI solutions.\nExternal engagement: Build relationships with industry groups, solution providers, and other organizations that can help accelerate progress against environmental goals.\nMinimum Education & Requirements\nExperience:3+ years of relevant experience in sustainability, energy management, decarbonization, or a related field, preferably in a manufacturing or FMCG environment.\nEducation:Bachelor’s degree in environmental science, sustainability, engineering, manufacturing, or a related field required; an advanced degree in an environmental or sustainability discipline is preferred.\nExperience with operational environmental performance, including energy and water efficiency programs.\nStrong analytical capability in emissions modeling, scenario analysis, forecasting, databases, dashboards, and executive-ready storytelling.\nWorking knowledge of Scope 1, 2, and 3 GHG accounting, non-FLAG decarbonization, the GHG Protocol, and enterprise ESG reporting processes.\nDemonstrated ability to work independently on technical topics while coordinating across multiple business functions and external partners.\nExcellent communication, stakeholder management, and continuous improvement skills.\nPreferred: experience with capital projects, manufacturing engineering, Power BI or similar business intelligence tools, sustainability data platforms, AI-enabled sustainability solutions, renewable energy, energy markets, or low-carbon technologies.\nBenefits & Perks\nAt Hershey, we offer competitive pay and a comprehensive total rewards package designed to support your wellbeing, financial security, and life outside of work.\nHealth & Wellbeing: Medical, dental, and vision coverage, plus wellness programs that support your physical and mental health\n\nFinancial Security: Competitive pay, annual incentive opportunities, and a 401(k) with company match\n\nTime Off & Flexibility: Paid time off, company holidays, and flexible ways of working where applicable\n\nGrowth & Development: Career development programs, learning opportunities, and internal mobility\n\nBenefits may vary based on role, location, and eligibility.\nThe anticipated base salary range for this role is $87,840 to $109,800 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\nThe Hershey Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 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Please be sure to include “Accommodation Needed” in the subject line. 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