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　　# 157511 - Piscataway, New Jersey, United States

　　Who We Are

　　Colgate-Palmolive Company is a caring, innovative growth company that is reimagining a healthier future for all people, their pets and our planet. Focused on Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care and Pet Nutrition, we sell our products in more than 200 countries and territories under brands such as Colgate, Palmolive, elmex, hello, meridol, Sorriso, Tom’s of Maine, EltaMD, Filorga, Irish Spring, PCA SKIN, Protex, Sanex, Softsoap, Speed Stick, Ajax, Axion, Fabuloso, Soupline and Suavitel, as well as Hill’s Pet Nutrition.

　　We are recognized for our leadership and innovation in promoting sustainability and community wellbeing, including our achievements in decreasing plastic waste and promoting recyclability, saving water, conserving natural resources and improving children’s oral health.

　　If you want to work for a company that lives by their values, then give your career a reason to smile and join our global team!

　　Colgate-Palmolive has ambitious growth goals in our 2025 Strategic Plan. We are reimagining the role of Global Procurement at Colgate-Palmolive to help enable this growth, reduce our environmental impact and deliver the financial goals of a $20B enterprise. The bold work of our function - This is an exciting time to be working in Procurement, as today’s dynamic business environment requires our agility to mitigate risk and our persistence to optimize cost. Procurement naturally adapts to ever-changing external conditions, and now is the opportunity to continue our track record of contributing to the top and bottom line. Given the consistent and high quality of our value delivery over the past few years, we will be asked to exceed this standard to mitigate the constant flow of new pressures in cost and services. Beyond the fundamentals - We need to not only be exceptional at executing the fundamentals, we must also define the future and continuously evolve to meet the needs of our changing environment - remaining relevant to support the business and reinventing ourselves for sustained competitive advantage. And of course, we are only half of the picture. Our suppliers are essential partners, segmented for capabilities, and are key to our success. We need to work more closely than ever with suppliers to source for efficiencies, co-create sustainable practices and bigger and better innovations. This places great demands on the skills and expertise of all of us as Procurement professionals.

　　Role Overview:

　　Colgate is a large, global manufacturer and distributor of consumer goods across diverse channels of business. We deploy a global network of manufacturing sites, including +100 external manufacturing locations, and have significant requirements for streamlined logistics for finished goods and direct materials. Colgate seeks to limit cost and service volatility and improve forward costs transparency through its sourcing strategies and risk management programs. Colgate is also focused on implementing data-based decision making and digital tools to enable predictive analysis of logistics and warehouse/leasing trends.

　　The global end to end supply chain procurement sr director will be responsible for setting overall strategy for sourcing supply chain services, with specific focus on:

　　Translating new requirements from service, volatility, cost transparency, sustainability and growth objectives for the company.

　　Expanding the supply and demand services program to assess and mitigate the financial and operational risks arising from key drivers (e.g. oil, fuel, labor, capacity, related commodities).

　　Enabling new asset and infrastructure sourcing requirements for growth and optimizing Capital expenditures and structuring.

　　Updating the digital roadmap critical to assessing commodity and network impacts into cost modelling and margin forecasting.

　　Continually evaluating existing business processes and identifying BPO opportunities

　　Transformational leadership required:

　　The global end to end supply chain procurement sr director will redefine and evolve the strategic partnerships essential for assurance, growth and sustainability. He or she will create best practices for identifying and mitigating logistics and operational cost risks, optimize network relationships, and negotiate automation and efficiency programs that deliver margin, ROI and speed. He or she will support a logistics cost transparency program, implementing agile tools that transform our capabilities to assess and act on business critical decisions. The successful candidate will have strong leadership skills, confidence to share alternate views and know when/ when not to compromise. He or she must be able to communicate technical / specialist knowledge and best practices to a broad audience of stakeholders in an informative and succinct manner. He or she has prior experience in aligning and supporting key stakeholders to advance a strategic supply chain sourcing and risk management program within a corporate environment. He or she must have built successful relationships internally to develop broad specifications for changing conditions, and externally to gain knowledge and expertise quickly to incorporate to Colgate strategies/approaches. The global sr director will build strong peer relationships internally to prioritize resilience and opportunity actions. He or she must have successfully integrated and trained supply chain sourcing capabilities and be able to pivot between strategic and tactical decisions that enable regional opportunities. The global director will be a key member of the Global Procurement leadership team and, as such, will take on leading/partnering on any number of initiatives important to our function to enable competencies in digital, learning, DE&I, supplier relationships, sustainability and negotiations.

　　Reporting:

　　You will report directly to the Chief Procurement Officer. You will also have a strong relationship with our CSCO, E2E global supply chain leaders, CFO team to share visibility of supply-demand service and cost risks and to align action plans.

　　Key Responsibilities - risk mitigation, margin/profit/EPS improvement, reduced environmental impact:

　　Define and lead cost and multi year savings pipeline on annual spend across multiple service categories including Demand Services like Freight, Warehousing, Copacking, and Supply Services like Facilities, MRO and Capital

　　Build consensus and alignment with key global and regional stakeholders on business requirements and transformational initiatives that drive cost savings, mitigate supply risk, and increase services innovation.

　　Build relationships with key suppliers for the execution of strategy and development of joint cost improvement programs

　　Deliver aggressive margin, net profit and working capital improvement through integrated cost/cash reduction short/long term projects

　　Ensure the drivers of capital sourcing ROI are prioritized

　　Define the roadmap of BPO options, selection, implementation

　　Develop and share your specialist (transportation and/or warehousing) knowledge and assist in the professional development of the team in negotiating for labor gaps, commodity volatility and inflationary times.

　　Analyse and share deep understanding of the supply markets, including external economic factors which influence those markets.

　　Update and implement the data and digital tools essential for predictive analytics and integrated correlations to guide logistics and supply services budget plans.

　　Collaborate with Sustainable Sourcing team to build new supplier partnerships for evolving infrastructure critical to meeting Colgate’s 11 Sustainability actions.

　　Integrate the practices of supplier diversity in all selection decisions, targeting a +10% spend goal, including the long term relationship building needed before reaching a contract

　　REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

　　technical excellence, continuous upskilling, collaboration

　　Bachelor’s degree in economics, supply chain, business

　　15+ years leading logistics and supply chain sourcing, including network re-design and strategic procurement strategy

　　An understanding of consumer goods and/or food manufacturing

　　Experience redesigning planning and logistics networks to meet growth, efficiency and sustainability measures

　　Experience on large-scale change management projects

　　Capable of bringing change and building consensus to move projects forward at all levels

　　Exemplify a high degree of personal integrity and interpersonal, negotiation, influencing and stakeholder management skills

　　Inspirational people leader, passionate in creating and developing a large high performing, geographically dispersed, diverse team.

　　Firm understanding of execution strategies for sourcing utilities globally, energy commodities, and cost components important to supply, demand and capital categories.

　　Experience in developing new manufacturing/supply and demand relationships

　　Experience in negotiating large greenfield and brownfield warehousing/3PL/4PL and/or manufacturing plant construction contracts

　　Proven experience leading and delivering innovative risk management solutions and building teams around these efforts.

　　Fluent in verbal and written communication in English

　　Driven to succeed, and willing to move to other roles in Procurement or Supply Chain.

　　PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

　　Master’s certificate preferred in related field.

　　Depth in customer service and logistics for commercial teams would also be great additional expertise

　　Key Stakeholders:

　　Collaborative engagement internally across Procurement, Supply Chain, Sustainability, Legal, Division commercial teams, Finance business partners including Financial reporting

　　Present regularly to Colgate Global Supply Chain leaders, CP senior management team and all division supply chain teams

　　External engagement with logistics providers, including 3PLs and audit companies, warehousing and capital suppliers, Sustainability insiders/groups, Gartner and various universities that specialize in teaching logistics/supply chain best practices

　　Travel globally for Supplier meetings, Industry meetings, project meetings and team meetings.

　　Compensation and Benefits

　　Salary Range $245,000.00 - $285,000.00 USD

　　Pay is based on multiple non-discriminatory, individualized factors including but not limited to experience, job-related knowledge and education, skills and office/market location. In addition to base salary, salaried employees are eligible for annual discretionary bonuses, profit-sharing and, for Executive-level (salary grade 16 and above) roles only, long-term incentives in the form of Restricted Stock Units and/or Stock Options.

　　Subject to the terms and conditions of the applicable benefits plans then in effect, all salaried employees are also eligible for a competitive benefits package which includes:

　　Insurance: Employees (and their eligible dependents) are eligible to participate in Company-sponsored Medical, Dental, Vision, Basic Life Insurance, Accidental Death & Dismemberment and Disability insurance plans.

　　Retirement Plans: Employees are eligible to enroll in Colgate's 401(k) plan, which provides for company matching contributions subject to eligibility requirements

　　Vacation/PTO: Employees receive a minimum of 15 days of vacation/PTO leave annually

　　Paid Holidays: Employees receive a minimum of 13 paid/floating holidays annually

　　Paid Sick Leave: Based on location and consistent with applicable state and local law, employees receive a minimum of 40 hours of paid sick leave on January 1st of each year

　　Paid Parental Leave: Eligible employees may take up to eight weeks of paid parental leave and 12 weeks of unpaid leave (varies for employees with fewer than 12 months of service and is subject to hours worked requirements)

　　Our Commitment to Sustainability

　　With the Colgate brand in more homes than any other, we are presented with great opportunities and new challenges as we work to integrate sustainability into all aspects of our business and create positive social impact. We are determined to position ourselves for further growth as we act on our 2025 Sustainability & Social Impact Strategy.

　　Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

　　Achieving our purpose starts with our people — ensuring our workforce represents the people and communities we serve —and creating an environment where our people feel they belong; where we can be our authentic selves, feel treated with respect and have the support of leadership to impact the business in a meaningful way.

　　Equal Opportunity Employer

　　Colgate is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, marital status, veteran status (United States positions), or any other characteristic protected by law.

　　Reasonable accommodation during the application process is available for persons with disabilities. Please contact [email protected] with the subject "Accommodation Request" should you require accommodation.

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