FP&R Regional Director

Relocation Assistance Offered Within Country

Job Number #175875 - Piscataway, New Jersey, United States

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.

The FP&R Director is responsible for driving the overall success of the Factory Performance & Reliability Program, strategies, and performance across all sites in the assigned region. This position plays a critical role in developing, implementing, and driving continuous improvement strategies within a comprehensive manufacturing excellence framework. The Director ensures strong program governance, cross-category sharing, and the development of regional plans and goals in strict alignment with the company's Global Supply Chain 2030 Strategic Ambitions and Operational Excellence Strategy.

The role requires broad technical knowledge of category operations and the ability to drive standards implementation. Strong leadership, communication, and teamwork skills are necessary for collaborating across categories, regions, and sites with Directors of Manufacturing, Technical Directors, the End-to-End (E2E) Leadership Team, Regional Supply Leads, and other cross-functional groups. Furthermore, this role provides direct support and strategic counsel to site Directors of Manufacturing, Plant Managers, and local FP&R teams.

• Lead the divisional FP&R strategy by developing initiatives that ensure a robust foundational program.
• Serve as the subject matter expert in FP&R standards, providing guidance on standards, methodologies, tools, and systems.
• Oversee the implementation of FP&R standards and guidelines across manufacturing sites, ensuring organizational systems are in place and compliance is maintained.
• Lead all elements of the FP&R Audit program, including scheduling, resource assignments, execution, reporting. Follow up on the closure of Global and Self Audits findings and action items.
• Monitor FP&R Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), per standard to the sites of the region assigned to identify areas for improvement and best practices.
• Build comprehensive regional plans, operational goals, and strategic roadmaps that are in direct alignment with the organization's Global Supply Chain 2030 ambitions.
• Ensure the robust usage and knowledge of Root Cause Analysis and controlled measures to avoid repeated Unplanned Downtime (UPDT) and Absolute Material Loss (AML) issues.
• Lead and support the development of the FP&R team across the division. Provide technical and leadership training to operations, engineering, and site teams.
• Conduct hands-on site visits to assist with FP&R implementation and organize workshops.
• Ensure full utilization of Company data, digital, analytic and automation solutions.
• Establish divisional FP&R campaigns based on identified inefficiencies, risks, and directional needs.
• Develop onboarding plans for new FP&R site leads in conjunction with site HR and LTs
• Follow-up sites on closure of global/self Audits findings, actions and pushed out items from the center or division.
• Collaborate with E2E Leadership Team (LT), Supply Regional Lead, CMS team, and other functional groups. Communicate, provide direction and support to DoMs and PMs…