Manager, Data Strategy & Transformation

Role summary/purpose

As the Data Strategy & Transformation Manager/Sr. Manager, you will help advance Colgate-Palmolive’s Global Data Strategy by enabling enterprise AI and analytics to scale through strategic data management. You will help prioritize a focused, measurable portfolio of data products and transformation initiatives that advances analytics and AI readiness by making data more governed, automated, trusted, catalogued, and reusable—accelerating time to insight and supporting an agentic future.

You will collaborate cross-functionally with Global IT, Data Governance, Global Functions, Divisions, and Analytics teams to assess and advance the maturity of our data transformation efforts.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Intake and Prioritization: Establish and manage a consistent intake process that prioritizes data critical to enterprise strategy and tied to business value. Assess initiatives based on strategic alignment, business value, urgency, readiness, risk, and potential enterprise impact.

• Enterprise Data Product Portfolio Management: Maintain an integrated strategic view of Global Data Products—trusted, reusable data assets that power the company’s most strategic data capabilities. Help clarify each data product’s business purpose, joint business and technical accountability, target users, expected outcomes, maturity, adoption, governance readiness, and contribution to enterprise priorities. Provide transparency into overall portfolio health, risks, dependencies, and decisions required.

• Value Creation Tracking: Establish a consistent approach for defining and tracking the expected value of data initiatives. Partner with domain business owners and data delivery teams to identify intended outcomes, baseline measures, value indicators, adoption measures, and evidence of realized business impact.

• Data Transformation Health Tracking: Develop and maintain an enterprise view of data-transformation health in partnership with Data Governance, Data Platforms, and Data Delivery. Use quantitative and qualitative inputs—including stakeholder surveys, interviews, maturity assessments, adoption measures, operating metrics, and feedback—to evaluate progress, identify barriers, and highlight areas requiring leadership attention.

• Communication and Stakeholder Engagement: Develop clear, concise, and decision-oriented communications that build understanding of the enterprise data strategy, portfolio priorities, transformation health, value creation, risks, and recommended actions. Tailor messaging and executive materials for senior leadership, governance forums, business stakeholders, data practitioners, and broader employee audiences.

• Collaborative Leadership & Inclusive Culture: Demonstrate commitment to Colgate-Palmolive’s core values of Caring, Global Teamwork, and Continuous Improvement. Leads with high emotional intelligence and empathy, fostering an inclusive, cross-functional environment where diverse perspectives are valued and teams are empowered to collaborate effectively across global functions and divisions.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, information management, data and analytics, information technology, strategy, or a related field.

• 8+ years of relevant experience in data strategy, enterprise portfolio management, data and analytics, data or digital transformation, management consulting, product management, or a related discipline.

Preferred qualifications

• Master’s degree in business administration, information management, data and analytics, or a related field.

• Experience in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry.

• Familiarity with portfolio, workflow, survey, visualization, or collaboration tools used to collect insights and communicate transformation health.

• Relevant certifications in portfolio or program management, product management, data management, or Agile delivery.