Manager, Production Plant Procurement - Piscataway, NJ

Plant Procurement Manager

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. 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.

As our Plant Procurement Manager you will be the strategic guardian of our manufacturing ecosystem, ensuring the stability and quality of all direct materials powering our Personal Care portfolio. This is a high impact role where you will actively lead regional cost mitigation and risk management strategies. You are the vital link connecting our manufacturing floor with external suppliers, taking total ownership of sourcing challenges before they impact production.

Partnering directly with the Director of Manufacturing and the End to End Supply Chain, you will provide the critical communication, financial foresight, and operational support necessary to keep our facility agile, efficient, and running at peak performance.

Your day to day and the future:

• Execute highly effective negotiations for specific local raw and packaging materials while collaborating with the Global Procurement team to implement category specific strategies at the manufacturing site level
• Manage suppliers, materials, and procurement processes to deliver performance objectives measured by corporate, division, and local critical metrics
• Facilitate collaborative relationships between suppliers, customer service, and quality functions
• Collaborate with Category Manufacturing Services to develop proactive risk management strategies for key materials
• Ensure the timely delivery of new products and packaging layouts according to division grids and material portfolio initiatives
• Ensure the flawless implementation of key performance and compliance initiatives with suppliers
• Lead the implementation of Supplier Managed Inventory programs with targeted vendors
• Provide functional procurement resources and leadership support on task forces, acquisition studies, and major corporate projects
• Manage budget preparation and completion utilizing sophisticated divisional and global commodity market insights
• Optimize raw and packaging material inventories directly against local customer service requirements and working capital targets