Manager, Data Strategy & Transformation

No Relocation Assistance Offered
Job Number #176941 - Piscataway, New Jersey, United States

Who We Are

Colgate-Palmolive Company is a global consumer products company operating in over 200 countries specializing in Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care, Skin Care, and Pet Nutrition. Our products are trusted in more households than any other brand in the world, making us a household name!

Join Colgate-Palmolive, a caring, innovative growth company reimagining a healthier future for people, their pets, and our planet. Guided by our core values—Caring, Inclusive, and Courageous—we foster a culture that inspires our people to achieve common goals. Together, let's build a brighter, healthier future for all.

 

Role summary/purpose

 

As the Data Strategy & Transformation Manager/Sr. Manager, you will help advance Colgate-Palmolive’s Global Data Strategy by enabling enterprise AI and analytics to scale through strategic data management. You will help prioritize a focused, measurable portfolio of data products and transformation initiatives that advances analytics and AI readiness by making data more governed, automated, trusted, catalogued, and reusable—accelerating time to insight and supporting an agentic future.

 

You will collaborate cross-functionally with Global IT, Data Governance, Global Functions, Divisions, and Analytics teams to assess and advance the maturity of our data transformation efforts.

 

Responsibilities

 

• Strategic Intake and Prioritization: Establish and manage a consistent intake process that prioritizes data critical to enterprise strategy and tied to business value. Assess initiatives based on strategic alignment, business value, urgency, readiness, risk, and potential enterprise impact.

 

• Enterprise Data Product Portfolio Management: Maintain an integrated strategic view of Global Data Products—trusted, reusable data assets that power the company’s most strategic data capabilities. Help clarify each data product’s business purpose, joint business and technical accountability, target users, expected outcomes, maturity, adoption, governance readiness, and contribution to enterprise priorities. Provide transparency into overall portfolio health, risks, dependencies, and decisions required.

 

• Value Creation Tracking: Establish a consistent approach for defining and tracking the expected value of data initiatives. Partner with domain business owners and data delivery teams to identify intended outcomes, baseline measures, value indicators, adoption measures, and evidence of realized business impact.

 

• Data Transformation Health Tracking: Develop and maintain an enterprise view of data-transformation health in partnership with Data Governance, Data Platforms, and Data Delivery. Use quantitative and qualitative inputs—including stakeholder surveys, interviews, maturity assessments, adoption measures, operating metrics, and feedback—to evaluate progress, identify barriers, and highlight areas requiring leadership attention.

 

• Communication and Stakeholder Engagement: Develop clear, concise, and decision-oriented communications that build understanding of the enterprise data strategy, portfolio priorities, transformation health, value creation, risks, and recommended actions. Tailor messaging and executive materials for senior leadership, governance forums, business stakeholders, data practitioners, and broader employee audiences.

 

• Collaborative Leadership & Inclusive Culture: Demonstrate commitment to Colgate-Palmolive’s core values of Caring, Global Teamwork, and Continuous Improvement. Leads with high emotional intelligence and empathy, fostering an inclusive, cross-functional environment where diverse perspectives are valued and teams are empowered to collaborate effectively across global functions and divisions.

 

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, information management, data and analytics, information technology, strategy, or a related field.

• 8+ years of relevant experience in data strategy, enterprise portfolio management, data and analytics, data or digital transformation, management consulting, product management, or a related discipline.

Preferred qualifications

• Master’s degree in business administration, information management, data and analytics, or a related field.

• Experience in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry.

• Familiarity with portfolio, workflow, survey, visualization, or collaboration tools used to collect insights and communicate transformation health.

• Relevant certifications in portfolio or program management, product management, data management, or Agile delivery.

Compensation and Benefits
Salary Range $124,000.00 - $174,000.00 USD

Pay is determined based on experience, qualifications, and location. Salaried employees may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses, profit-sharing, and long-term incentives for Executive-level roles.

Benefits: Salaried employees enjoy a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance, paid parental leave, disability coverage, and participation in the 401(k) retirement plan with company matching contributions subject to eligibility requirements. Additional benefits include a minimum of 15 vacation/PTO days (hourly employees receive a minimum of 120 hours) and 13 paid holidays (vacation days are prorated based on the employee's hire date within the calendar year). Paid sick leave is adjusted based on role and location in accordance with local laws. Detailed information regarding paid sick leave entitlements will be provided to employees upon hiring and may be subject to adjustments based on changes in legislation or company policies.

Our Commitment to Inclusion
Our journey begins with our people—developing strong talent with diverse backgrounds and perspectives to best serve our consumers around the world and fostering an inclusive environment where everyone feels a true sense of belonging. We are dedicated to ensuring that each individual can be their authentic self, is treated with respect, and is empowered by leadership to contribute meaningfully to our business.

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.

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