About this role
Job Location: Hershey, PA
Role Summary:
The Program Manager for the Milton Hershey School will lead and enhance The Hershey Company’s strategic partnership with Milton Hershey School (MHS), overseeing program development, stakeholder alignment, execution, and continuous improvement across multiple workstreams including shaping career readiness for MHS students and building a talent pipeline, engaging employees in purpose-driven activities, delivering our founder’s legacy and supporting student experiences and connections to the Hershey company and our brands.
Key Responsibilities
Program Strategy & Leadership
- Shape and refine program strategy & execution for Hershey’s partnership with MHS in alignment with enterprise objectives
- Serve as the central point of contact and day‑to‑day leader for all MHS partnership activities across the HSY enterprise.
- Anticipate needs, emerging priorities, and communication expectations from senior leadership.
Program Execution & Collaboration
- Build and maintain annual and multi-year calendars of events for both MHS and THC
- Refine, manage, and evolve the MHS Program Playbook and all supporting documentation.
- Facilitate planning and execution for student engagement experiences, career readiness initiatives, and new talent‑pipeline programming.
Stakeholder Engagement & Communication
- Represent the program with executive leaders within the Hershey Company and MHS.
- Develop executive‑ready materials, presentations, updates, and reporting.
- Ensure consistent, clear, and timely communication across stakeholder groups.
Program Optimization & Governance
- Identify opportunities to streamline, standardize, and automate processes across the partnership.
- Track program effectiveness, identify gaps, and drive continuous improvement.
- Maintain program governance tools, documentation, dashboards, and updates.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of relevant experience.
- Strong project management and communication skills.
- Ability to build executive-level materials.
- High proficiency with Microsoft Office.
- Demonstrated capability to deliver executive level presentations and communications with the ability to navigate sensitive or evolving priorities
- Proven track record of managing cross-functional teams and scaling a high impact program
- Exceptional communication, leadership, and organizational skills.
- Bachelor’s degree with experience working/volunteering with educational institutions or youth programs.
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Other facts
About The Hershey Company
The Hershey Company is headquartered in Hershey, Pa., and is an industry-leading snacks company with a purpose to make more moments of goodness through its iconic brands. Hershey has approximately 20,000 employees around the world who work every day to deliver delicious, quality products.
The company has more than 70 brands around the world that drive more than $11 billion in annual revenues, including such beloved brands like HERSHEY'S, REESE'S, KIT KAT®, JOLLY RANCHER, ICE BREAKERS, SHAQ-A-LICIOUS, SKINNYPOP and DOT'S HOMESTYLE PRETZEL'S.
For more than 130 years, Hershey has been committed to operating responsibly and supporting its people and communities. Hershey founder, Milton Hershey, created Milton Hershey School in 1909, and since then, the company has focused on helping children succeed through access to education.
What you'll do
- This role involves leading and enhancing The Hershey Company’s strategic partnership with Milton Hershey School (MHS), focusing on program development, stakeholder alignment, and execution across multiple workstreams like career readiness and talent pipeline building. Key duties include serving as the central point of contact, managing partnership calendars, refining program documentation, and facilitating student engagement experiences.
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