Sustainable Sourcing Cocoa & Palm Manager - Environment & Climate

Major Duties/Responsibilities

• Own and lead the cocoa environmental and climate strategy, including climate-smart cocoa pathways across all origins and farm sizes.
• Own and lead the responsible palm sourcing strategy, including forest, nature and human rights related assessments, monitoring and verification efforts, on the ground projects and industry engagement.
• Define long-term approaches to addressing GHG emissions (insetting/offsetting) and land use, and advancing agroforestry, regenerative agriculture, water stewardship, biodiversity conservation and climate adaptation.
• Ensure strategies are scalable, evidence-based, and aligned with enterprise climate and sustainability commitments.
• Translate environmental strategy into clear requirements and decision frameworks for cocoa and palm sourcing and supplier engagement.

Environmental Integration & Governance

• Act as the environmental subject-matter authority within cocoa and palm sourcing, providing guidance, challenge, and environmental assurance on key sourcing, supplier, and investment decisions. Ensure social impacts connected to environmental interventions are understood and mitigated.
• Shape environmental requirements for suppliers, landscapes, and origin programs, ensuring alignment with deforestation and conversion free, climate, and nature objectives.
• Partner with Global Sustainability, Legal, Responsible Sourcing, and R&D teams to ensure environmental methodologies, metrics, and claims are credible, auditable, and fit for external disclosure.
• Leverage environmental data and analytics to inform cost benefit decisions and long-term sourcing resilience.
• Prepare and contribute environmental recommendations and risk assessments to cocoa and palm governance forums and senior leadership decision making.
• Represent Hershey as a recognized environmental and climate leader in cocoa and palm across industry forums, coalitions, public events, and multistakeholder initiatives.
• Contribute to the environmental narrative for cocoa and palm, ensuring external communications are grounded in delivery reality and technical credibility.
• Engage with peers, NGOs, governments, and research partners to shape sector-wide solutions on cocoa, palm, climate, and land use.