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Kit Kat Senior Manager, Brand

The Hershey Company•Lower Swatara Township, PA
•$156,080 - $195,100•Onsite

About The Position

The Kit Kat Senior Manager, Brand is the vision maker and business leader for the brand, responsible for setting its long-term ambition, strategic direction, creative expression, portfolio choices, and commercial growth agenda while protecting and strengthening brand health. The role advances Kit Kat through consumer-centric marketing and an insurgent mindset, keeping the brand relevant, distinctive, and recognizable. The Senior Manager owns the brand’s performance narrative through tracking, analysis, and forecasting, using insights to identify opportunities, make choices, and drive action. The role provides portfolio oversight and influences the innovation pipeline so growth opportunities are consumer-led, financially sound, and executable. It serves as the brand voice in key creative, media, portfolio, and investment decisions; leads the integrated agency team; oversees design evolution; and develops demand through Away From Home, Seasons & Tentpoles, and other high-impact occasions. In partnership with the Commercial team, the Senior Manager translates brand plans into effective customer- and channel-relevant execution. The role combines imagination, analytical rigor, general management, disciplined execution, and financial stewardship.

Requirements

  • At least 6 years of relevant experience in Brand Management, Marketing, Innovation, Strategy, Media, or Creative.
  • Consumer Product experience required.
  • Demonstrated experience building and deploying long-term brand strategy and annual brand plans grounded in consumer insights, market intelligence, and enterprise realities.
  • Experience leading brand activation initiatives, including consumer campaigns, creative development, media planning, and engagement programs.
  • Demonstrated experience owning business results and influencing cross-functional teams.
  • Strong analytical, strategic-thinking, and problem-solving capabilities, with the ability to translate insights into action.
  • Proven ability to influence and collaborate across cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment.
  • Excellent communication, storytelling, and presentation skills, including experience delivering recommendations to senior leaders.
  • Bachelor’s degree required.

Nice To Haves

  • Food experience preferred.
  • Degree in Marketing, Business, Management, Finance, or a related field preferred.
  • MBA preferred but not required.

Responsibilities

  • Define and champion Kit Kat’s long-term vision, growth strategy, positioning, and business direction, translating enterprise priorities, consumer insight, and marketplace dynamics into clear choices.
  • Lead portfolio strategy and management, making choices across formats, pack-price architecture, and channels to support sustainable growth and brand coherence.
  • Own brand health and equity, establish the learning agenda, and turn consumer, cultural, competitive, and marketplace signals into strategies that strengthen relevance and distinctiveness.
  • Set creative ambition and lead insurgent-mindset marketing across Masterbrand equity and growth initiatives.
  • Lead the integrated agency team and partner with Creative, Media, and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver breakthrough, insight-led work.
  • Represent the brand in critical creative, media, portfolio, and investment decisions, balancing brand-building impact, commercial priorities, marketing effectiveness, and financial stewardship.
  • Own the brand’s performance narrative through tracking, business analysis, and forecasting; identify drivers, risks, and opportunities and mobilize cross-functional action.
  • Partner with the Commercial team to translate brand strategy and annual plans into customer- and channel-relevant programs that drive conversion.
  • Develop incremental brand equity and demand through Away From Home, Seasons & Tentpoles, and other strategic platforms, with clear success measures and disciplined resource allocation.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Wellness programs supporting physical and mental health.
  • Competitive pay.
  • Annual incentive opportunities.
  • 401(k) with company match.
  • Paid time off.
  • Company holidays.
  • Flexible ways of working where applicable.
  • Career development programs.
  • Learning opportunities.
  • Internal mobility.
  • Performance-based incentives.
  • Comprehensive benefits supporting physical, mental, and financial well-being, as applicable.

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