Data Operations Specialist

No Relocation Assistance Offered
Job Number #168092 - 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.
 

Title: Data Operations Specialist, COP

Colgate-Palmolive invites you to apply for an Data Operations Specialist position based in our Piscataway, NJ location (Park Ave, NY is ok as well - remote option to be evaluated case by case) 

As a Data Operations Specialist at Colgate Oral Pharmaceuticals, you will play a pivotal role in strengthening the connection between our Commercial Operations, Analytics & IT organizations. This position emphasizes ensuring the quality, accuracy, and usability of data that supports critical business decisions and reporting. You will serve as a conduit between business stakeholders and technical experts, making an impact through robust data governance, validation practices, and process improvement.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Champion Data Quality:

  • Act as the point person for data integrity—validating accuracy and completeness across key business data sources (including SAP and cloud platforms). Investigate and resolve data quality issues, and drive continuous improvements.

• Bridge Business and Technical Teams:

  • Collaborate closely with business leaders, analytics teams, and IT partners to gather requirements, translate business needs into clear data specifications, and ensure solutions meet operational objectives.

  • Collaborate with our IT organization to work within Google Cloud Platform/Snowflake to build automated data pipelines (e.g. using AirFlow, dBT) to ingest and transform data to make it ready for analytics and/or visualization.

• Support Data Process Governance:

  • Develop, maintain, and enhance data validation processes, documentation, and definitions (e.g., KPIs, data lineage) to promote consistent and trustworthy analytics.

• Facilitate Communication and Alignment:

  • Lead discussions, document business-critical data definitions, and promote transparent communication among a diverse set of stakeholders.

• Enable Enhanced Insights:

  • Ensure that commercial analytics, reporting, and business intelligence teams have access to accurate, validated data for high-impact insights and strategic initiatives.

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Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math or Computer Science

• 4+ years of Data/Analytics Engineering experience

• High level of proficiency with SQL

• Experience building ETL/ELT pipelines or a strong familiarity of the process

• Strong familiarity with cloud computing platforms (e.g. Snowflake, GCP)

• Strong oral and written English skills

• Familiarity with data analytics workflows, objectives, tech stacks, common terminology
   

Preferred Qualifications:

• Consumer Goods Proven Experience is preferred

• Business Analytics Experience is a huge plus

• Experience supporting cross-functional SAP S4 HANA ERP projects 

• Familiarity with ETL/ELT pipeline tools (Github, Airflow, HVR, etc.)

• Experience developing business process or data governance documentation

• Exposure to data visualization platforms (DOMO and/or Sigma is preferred)

• Commercial operations,