Manager, Packaging Sustainability Innovation

Colgate • Piscataway, NJ

8h • Hybrid

About The Position

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. Colgate needs your help to reimagine a healthier future for all people, their pets, and our planet. As the North American Packaging Sustainability Innovation Manager, you will lead advancing Colgate's regional actions and external engagement against our ambitious plastics and packaging sustainability strategy in North America.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in environmental science, material science, engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years experience in Packaging and/or sustainability fields.
• Experience in packaging / plastics issues, and sustainability best practices at global and regional FMCG companies including EPR.
• Experience in using data & analytics to support perspectives, including LCA and other sustainability metrics

Nice To Haves

• Master's Degree.
• 3+ years of CPG experience.
• Ability to balance multiple stakeholders, both across functions and geographics and to influence stakeholders internally and externally.
• Ability to leverage cross-functional partners to develop & implement programs and inspire and enroll teams in a vision.
• Can set direction, make decisions and recommendations in the face of uncertainty or conflict.

Responsibilities

• Primary regional point of contact for Packaging Sustainability Initiatives within North America.
• Leading the development, deployment, and advocacy of North America Packaging Sustainability programs which are consistent with and feed into our Global Packaging Sustainability strategy & goals.
• Oversee the regional process for Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) in North America partnering with Packaging Operations/Engineering, Finance, Legal/Regulatory, Global Sustainability, and our external EPR consultancy.
• Primary point-of-contact to our PROs
• Lead the North America focused external engagement network for packaging sustainability with NGOs, PROs, Recycling Value Chain members, Packaging Suppliers, and other organizations.
• Partner with Global Sustainability on key Globally-driven packaging & plastics sustainability initiatives to be executed in North America

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• basic life insurance
• paid parental leave
• disability coverage
• participation in the 401(k) retirement plan with company matching contributions subject to eligibility requirements.
• a minimum of 15 vacation/PTO days
• 13 paid holidays
• Paid sick leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager