Executive Assistant, Svp, Chief Global Business Platforms & Process Optimization Officer

Job Location: Hershey, PA

The Hershey Executive Committee is seeking a team-inspiring, energized, and assertive Executive Assistant to support theSVP, Chief Global Business Platforms & Process Optimization Officer.

To win the role, you must show through your experiences, traits, behaviors, and skills that you…

• Love to geek out over business issues or want to learn - We’ll teach you.
• Have a balanced EQ—It helps you manage stress and interact with your colleagues.
• Are a vault – You get to see, hear, and participate in a lot of exciting, but sensitive, things.
• Have excellent written, verbal, and visual communication skills - Your success depends on it.
• Are willing to take risks and act on your own judgment - You’re aiming to win.

Our new teammate is a skilled professional, which means we will give you ownership of several outcomes. The activities to deliver excellent outcomes will be achieved in partnership with your EC teammate but you design how we get there together. Here are just a few things you’ll own:

• Developing content for strategy, projects, board meetings, and other critical deliverables in a way that conveys information that resonates with its intended audience. This content includes Board presentations, which are time intensive, maybe even late at night or on weekends, and require significant creative thinking and excellent visualization skills.
• Prepare the EC member for commitments, including internal townhalls, team meetings, GMBR, and so on. We operate on a 5-, 3-, and 1-year business cycle. The EC meets weekly as a team to discuss the most critical work to deliver on our long-term value creation commitments. If you love to think ahead and ask great questions, consider this opportunity a strong fit.
• Planning and executing connections and meet ups among dozens of different stakeholders in and outside of Hershey. Figuring out how to maximize the time we spend together is a fundamental component of your work.
• Enabling EC members to be the most effective team possible by collaborating with leaders, other members of the EC support team, and external partners. We need your help to get stronger as a team. You are part of the extended EC team on day 1. This role isn’t for you if you don’t love to solve problems with the input of others.
• Extensive “first-level” point of contact for digital communications, calendar management, travel, and all other forms of communication. Often you are acting entirely on behalf of your EC teammate and the broader EC. Be ready.
• Act as the facilitator and enabler of functional and unit team meetings. You are on the leadership team of the function day 1 just like you’re on the EC team day 1. Taking a point of view, having a voice, getting people to talk are all skills that will help you deliver this commitment.
• Help your EC member be a better leader who ignites the passion of others by staying connected to people…energize teams by giving people autonomy to deliver…steering the way by being as clear as possible.

Things You Need To Know Cold And Do Well To Succeed:

• Strong commercial acumen or willingness to learn how we run the business
• Ability to juggle multiple priorities flawlessly in a cool, calm, and professional manner
• Strong interpersonal communication skills –listening is really important—as is questioning
• Initiative, “event-planner-like” organization skills
• High level of confidence and protection for confidential files and communications
• Maniacal attention to detail and responsiveness
• Ability to handle stressful business situations in a rapid changing environment
• When and how to challenge and push your EC member and others to be bigger, bolder, more courageous, more compassionate, more concerned for others
• High level ability and proficiency with full Microsoft suite of products, with a strong focus on PowerPoint and Excel

Before You Apply:

You must love winning and want to help our business and people grow. Advanced education beyond high school is preferred because it helps teach people how to think, manage time, meet deadlines and so on. But it’s ok to be super smart, savvy, and experienced, too. We would like a minimum of 5 years of executive support experience at The Hershey Company, or around 15 years of executive support or chief of staff experience. And, yes, we want diverse thinkers with different life experiences who create inclusivity of others by interrogating ideas and building up people.