Job Title: Senior Manager Category Manager, Procurement *Summary:* Deliver Hershey’s innovation and growth agenda in partnership with R&D, Marketing, Supply Chain and suppliers. This role focuses on identifying and developing suppliers with high innovation capabilities, advanced technologies, and sustainable solutions while accelerating speed-to-market for breakthrough initiatives. This position establishes end-to-end procurement innovation readiness while ensuring strategies are in place to create a competitive advantage, manage intellectual property rights, drive supply resilience, and improve efficiencies. *Responsibilities: * 1. Develop and execute front-of-funnel innovation sourcing opportunities achieved through cross-functional partnerships with R&D, Marketing, Legal, Supply Chain and Procurement 2. Partner with R&D and Brand Marketing to identify white space opportunities, develop intellectual property roadmaps and source external capabilities to support the longer-term resea...