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Mgr M&A Competitive Intel & Strat Projects & Cosumer Insights

The Hershey Company

United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 13 Aug 2026

About the role

Location

Remote

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 (NYSE: HSY) 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 Manager, M&A Competitive Intelligence & Strategic Projects serves as a strategic advisor who transforms market intelligence, consumer trends, competitive insights, and business performance data into actionable recommendations that support enterprise growth and strategic decision-making. This role partners with business leaders across the organization to evaluate opportunities, assess competitive dynamics, identify emerging risks, and uncover insights that shape key business initiatives.

As the insights leader supporting Hershey's M&A agenda, this individual owns and delivers an end-to-end, holistic insights strategy that fuels strategic growth decisions and acquisition opportunities. The role is responsible for driving deep consumer, shopper, category, and marketplace intelligence to evaluate acquisition targets, identify growth opportunities, and provide actionable implications that support investment decisions. Working closely with Strategy, Consumer Insights, Commercial, Finance, and Business Unit leadership, this individual ensures strong linkage between M&A priorities and core business strategies.

As a recognized thought partner, you will lead high-impact strategic analyses, develop insight-driven recommendations, and provide leadership teams with perspectives needed to make informed decisions. This role offers an exciting opportunity to combine strategic thinking, analytical rigor, consumer understanding, and business partnership to create meaningful impact across Hershey's growth agenda.

What will you do?

Lead complex strategic projects from opportunity identification through recommendation development, translating ambiguous business questions into clear analytical approaches and actionable recommendations.

Drive the M&A research agenda across consumer, shopper, category, and marketplace insights to ensure strategic decisions are grounded in a deep understanding of consumers, customers, category dynamics, and growth trends.

Lead end-to-end consumer, shopper, marketplace, and competitive intelligence assessments for acquisition targets, identifying opportunities, risks, growth drivers, and strategic implications.

Partner closely with Business Units, Strategy, Consumer Insights, and Corporate Development teams to connect acquisition opportunities with enterprise growth objectives and long-term business priorities.

Analyze consumer, category, competitive, market, financial, and business performance data to identify growth opportunities, emerging trends, risks, and key business drivers.

Conduct market assessments, competitive intelligence analyses, consumer evaluations, and industry research to support strate