Data Governance Activation Manager

Data Governance Activation Manager

Established in 1806 as a small soap and candle business in New York City, Colgate-Palmolive is now a truly global company with products sold in over 200 countries and territories under such internationally recognized brand names as Colgate, Palmolive, Softsoap, Irish Spring, Protex, Sorriso, Kolynos, elmex, Tom's of Maine, Sanex, Ajax, Axion, Soupline, Haci Sakir, Suavitel, PCA SKIN, EltaMD, Filorga and Hello as well as Hill's Science Diet and Hill's Prescription Diet. Colgate-Palmolive is a leading consumer products company that serves hundreds of millions of consumers worldwide with brands and products across four core businesses – Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care and Pet Nutrition. We are committed to offering products that make lives healthier and more enjoyable, and programs that enrich communities around the world. Every day millions of people trust our products to care for themselves and the ones they love. Our goal is to use our technology to create products that will continue to improve the quality of life for our consumers wherever they live. A career at Colgate-Palmolive is an excellent opportunity if you seek a global experience, constant challenge, and development opportunities in an environment that respects work/life effectiveness.

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.

This role can report to our NYC or Piscataway, NJ office.

Role Summary: As the Manager: Data Governance, you are the bridge between data policy and daily operations. Your mission is to move data governance from a set of theoretical guidelines into a living, breathing part of the company's DNA. You will lead a data transformation program that instills data ownership, data stewardship, and key data governance disciplines, ensuring that business domains don't just "comply" with data rules but actually recognize their value on the path towards making CP's data AI Ready. Without activation, data governance is just "shelf-ware." You are the catalyst that ensures the organization's data is trusted, discoverable, and usable, directly impacting the success of strategic AI and Analytics initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• Operationalize the Framework: Translate high-level data governance policies and standards into actionable processes and workflows for business and technical teams.
• Stewardship Leadership: Manage a network of Data Stewards across the organization, providing them with the tools and motivation to maintain high-quality data.
• Build out a community of practitioners to mature the data governance best practices.
• Value Creation From Data Initiatives: Drive adoption of a strategic intake process to identify data use cases that solve business challenges and articulate the resulting business values.
• Ensure each use case contains detailed business context along with high-level data requirements that can be mapped to potential data product priority and roadmap in collaboration with domain teams.
• Tool Adoption: Oversee the implementation and day-to-day use of various data governance solutions (i.e. Data Catalog, Data Quality/ Data Observability, Data Security, etc.) to ensure data is discoverable, trusted and secured as a "source of truth" rather than just a mere repository for documentation.
• Analytics & AI Data Readiness & Enablement: Partner closely with cross functional teams to define and enforce the data standards, quality checks, and metadata enrichment necessary to produce trusted, clean, and scalable data products that will fuel CP's most strategic AI and Analytics capabilities.
• Change Management: Act as the primary advocate for a "Data-First" culture. This involves creating communication plans, training, and feedback loops to help the organization understand and adapt to key data governance concepts and overcome resistance.
• Collaborate with domain teams to embed data governance deliverables into data delivery efforts.
• Metric Development: Define and track "Activation KPIs"—going beyond just data quality scores to measure user adoption, metadata completeness, and the speed of data issue resolution, etc.
• Cross-Functional Liaison: Work closely with business and IT stakeholders, including domain and divisional business teams, analytics teams, data delivery teams, platform team and data privacy, legal and CISO team, to ensure data governance supports—rather than hinders—business agility.

Required Qualifications:

• Completed Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Business Administration or a related field.
• Minimum 8 years of work experience in large data transformation programs focusing on data governance and data quality.

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. Reasonable accommodation during the application process is available for persons with disabilities. Please complete this request form should you require accommodation. For additional Colgate terms and conditions, please click here.