Director, Sustainable Sourcing & Supplier Diversity

Responsibilities

• Define and lead the Sustainable Sourcing Strategy to implement the portfolio of actions critical to deliver our 11 stated ambitions related to Forest Positive, Net Zero Carbon, Human Rights, Plastics Circularity, Water Security, and Regulations
• Create and drive forward the corporate strategy and approach to supplier inclusion
• Build consensus and alignment with key stakeholders in procurement, technology and supply chain to align execution behind sustainable sourcing investments and priorities
• Develop best practices for learning and training on a myriad of procurement compliance actions, including ingredient transparency, procurement policy, supplier audits, ESG, strategic partnership contracting and sustainability reporting that demonstrate competencies in transforming the sourcing decisions essential to sustainability and innovation
• Integrate compliance program actions to the CBS organizations to codify the data and reporting processes essential to long term visibility of sustainability progress and to new external reporting requirements
• Provide thought leadership, strategic direction and timely execution on global sourcing transformation needed in raw and packaging materials to meet sustainability goals
• Build relationships with key suppliers for the execution of strategy, including assurance, price, innovation and sustainability
• Develop a team of sustainability and supplier inclusion specialists, capable of working across categories and divisions, who can influence decision making and swift actions
• Analyze and develop a deep understanding of the future supply markets of recyclable, sustainable materials, including external economic factors which influence those markets and cost correlations
• Provide regular updates to key senior leadership team members upon request
• Represent Colgate-Palmolive at relevant industry meetings and events

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant fields such as economics, finance, or supply chain
• Minimum 15 years leading materials or commodity procurement teams, materials risk management programs, or strategic sourcing of a broad commodity or materials portfolio globally
• Firm understanding of change management required to transition from materials sourcing strategies to materials transformation execution for a multi-country global organization
• Experience engaging and contracting with external strategic partners
• Experience on large-scale change management projects