About this role
Location: This position is based in Hershey, PA three days per week onsite; Relocation is provided.
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
At The Hershey Company, we make more moments of goodness through some of the world's most iconic brands, including Hershey's, Reese's, Kit Kat®, Jolly Rancher, Twizzlers, Dot's Pretzels, Lesser Evil and more. Our team supports a global portfolio of over 90 brands, creating opportunities to shape strategies and drive impact across a breadth of businesses that few companies can offer. While many organizations focus on a handful of brands, Hershey provides exposure to a diverse portfolio of category-leading brands enjoyed by consumers around the world. What truly sets us apart is our legacy. Inspired by Milton Hershey's belief that business should create opportunity for others, we have been making a positive impact for more than a century through our commitment to communities, philanthropy, and our longstanding partnership with Milton Hershey School. When you join Hershey, you become part of a company where purpose, growth, and making a difference are woven into how we do business every day.
How will you fit in the big picture?
The Senior Director, Transportation will lead Hershey's transportation strategy and operations, building a high-performing, cost-effective network that delivers strong customer service. This leader will oversee a significant third-party transportation network, including carrier procurement, sourcing, negotiation and contracting, while advancing payload utilization, reducing unnecessary miles and strengthening on-time delivery. Working across manufacturing, warehousing, planning and customer service, this role will improve cost, capacity and service across the end-to-end network.
What will you do?
Transportation Procurement & Carrier Strategy
- Lead transportation sourcing and procurement, including carrier bids, negotiations, contracting and ongoing carrier strategy.
- Establish a disciplined procurement approach that delivers competitive common-carrier rates benchmarked against the market.
- Manage carrier relationships and performance across a large outsourced network, balancing cost, capacity, service and operational requirements.
Transportation Operations & Customer Service
- Lead transportation initiatives supporting warehouse-delivered customer shipments, including appointment scheduling, dock coordination and delivery execution.
- Drive reliable on-time service by identifying and resolving constraints across the network.
- Partner across functions to improve the flow of product from manufacturing and distribution locations to customers.
Network Optimization
- Optimize the transportation network to reduce unnecessary miles, improve truck payload and increase asset utilization.
- Work with plants, warehouses, planning and customer service to improve shipment configurations and transportation flows.
- Establish and monitor measures that balance transportation cost, payload utilization and customer service.
Leadership & Cross-Functional Partnership
- Provide strategic leadership for transportation initiatives and improvement programs.
- Build strong partnerships across Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Warehousing, Planning, Customer Service and Procurement.
- Influence enterprise decisions and develop longer-term capabilities that support business growth and changing customer requirements.
Minimum Education & Requirements
Education: Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Business or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience. Advanced degree preferred.
Experience: 13+ years of relevant transportation, logistics or supply chain experience in a large, complex distribution environment, including significant leadership responsibility.
Additional Qualifications:
- Deep experience with third-party transportation procurement, including carrier sourcing, competitive bids, negotiations and contracting.
- Demonstrated success optimizing transportation cost, miles, payload utilization and service.
- Strong knowledge of warehouse-delivered customer transportation, appointment scheduling and dock-management requirements.
- Commercial and analytical strength, with the ability to make sound tradeoffs among cost, capacity and service.
- Proven ability to lead complex initiatives and influence cross-functional stakeholders; CPG, food and beverage, retail or similarly complex high-volume distribution experience is strongly preferred.
The anticipated base salary range for this role is $190,800 to $238,500 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.
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