Procurement Integration Associate Mgr/Manager

Relocation Assistance Offered Within Region
# 159227 - Piscataway, New Jersey, United States

Who We Are
Colgate-Palmolive Company is a caring, innovative growth company that is reimagining a healthier future for all people, their pets and our planet. Focused on Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care and Pet Nutrition, we sell our products in more than 200 countries and territories under brands such as Colgate, Palmolive, elmex, hello, meridol, Sorriso, Tom’s of Maine, EltaMD, Filorga, Irish Spring, PCA SKIN, Protex, Sanex, Softsoap, Speed Stick, Ajax, Axion, Fabuloso, Soupline and Suavitel, as well as Hill’s Pet Nutrition.

We are recognized for our leadership and innovation in promoting sustainability and community wellbeing, including our achievements in decreasing plastic waste and promoting recyclability, saving water, conserving natural resources and improving children’s oral health.

If you want to work for a company that lives by their values, then give your career a reason to smile and join our global team!
 

We are currently recruiting for a Procurement Integration Manager, (North American Division), located in Piscataway, New Jersey.  In this role you will be responsible for all procurement data management, analytics & reporting and monitoring of KPIs. You will be supporting the identification and implementation of  system & digital solutions for sourcing requirements, support business continuity planning and implementation of process improvements activities.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

The Procurement Integration Manager will: 

• Be responsible for procurement data management (Info records/ IR and vendor update, standard costing, etc.)

• Ensures alignment of the requirements set for business data with IT systems and solutions

• Reviews price changes (monthly, quarterly) and purchasing conditions in SAP and provides direction for necessary updates

• Coordinate the Procurement budgeting process (uploads and reporting) and keep accurate information on the Future Cost Planning system

• Plans and coordinates data cleansing initiatives

• Leverages SAP in day-to-day function to report & monitor key measures: procurement KPIs, ESM tracking, Contracts coverage, VSC, PPV, PSA, SMI; ability to communicate KPIs & Metrics

• Supports Risk Management activities and keeps responsibility for Suppliers due diligence

• Represents Plant Procurement Operations team in workshops and/or meetings with business functions representatives

• Data Analytics: Utilize a variety of techniques including advanced excel and other tools (DOMO, Tableau, Google Suite) to manipulate data to derive critical insights and support decision making.

• Information Systems: Knowledge and use of existing Technical Information Systems (e.g. SAP, Ariba, BI and other tools ) to generate necessary data; Ability to access, analyze and use information in a manner that adds value to the organization; Ability to propose system enhancements based upon business needs

• Develop a working knowledge of commodities being purchased to manage budgeting and future cost planning.

• Analyze complex business problems and provide valuable insights through various methods including data validation, ad-hoc reports and automation, dashboards etc.

• Develop, manage, maintain data, KPIs for the Procurement team, ensuring reliability, data accuracy and integrity of information

• Understand and enhance current processes, data pipelines and data visualizations based on user feedback

• Automate repetitive manual tasks and data collection for the business to streamline data process and reporting projects

• Works cross functionally and with multiple stakeholders to gather master data, costing information  and other relevant dataset  to consolidate information in a timely manner to meet key deadlines

Required qualifications include:

• Basic understanding of Material Master, Vendor Master, Contract/PO relationships, GR & Delivery transactions, and/or general Source-to-Pay management

• Strong computer skills, including knowledge of SAP systems; Advanced Excel skills, strong skills in Google suite tools.