About the role

  • Business Development Manager driving co-manufacturing and product partnerships at The Hershey Company. Identifying strategic partners to enhance innovation and market speed.

Responsibilities

  • Identify and evaluate co-manufacturing and co-development partners aligned with enterprise quality, capacity, innovation, and compliance standards
  • Lead partner onboarding, due diligence, and governance model design
  • Establish long-term, scalable partnership frameworks that support portfolio growth and innovation pipelines
  • Lead commercial structuring and execution of product co-development initiatives from concept through commercialization
  • Drive alignment between partner capabilities and internal product, brand, and consumer strategies
  • Maintain working expertise in intellectual property principles, including background IP, foreground IP, joint IP, trade secrets, and licensing
  • Partner closely with Legal to negotiate and operationalize NDAs, development agreements, supply agreements, and IP ownership provisions
  • Translate legal, technical, and operational constraints into commercially viable partnership structures
  • Establish performance metrics, governance cadences, and escalation mechanisms for external partners

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Supply Chain, or related discipline
  • 7–10+ years of experience in business development, strategic partnerships, or commercial leadership within manufacturing-intensive industries (CPG, food & beverage, personal care, pharmaceuticals, or adjacent sectors)
  • Demonstrated experience managing co-manufacturing or contract manufacturing relationships at enterprise scale
  • Proven track record of accelerating product commercialization through external partners

Benefits

  • Health insurance
  • 401(k) matching
  • Paid time off
  • Flexible working hours

Job title

Business Development Manager

Job type

Experience level

SeniorLead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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