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Job Summary:
Colgate-Palmolive Company is a global consumer products company specializing in Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care, Skin Care, and Pet Nutrition. They are seeking a Data Delivery Lead to drive the execution of data initiatives for their Supply Chain business unit, serving as the primary bridge between business stakeholders and technical engineering teams while managing complex data pipelines and analytics solutions.
Responsibilities:
• Technical Leadership & Oversight
• Technical Coordination: Coordinate technical resources, assign work to developers, and monitor daily progress. You are the first line of defense for removing technical blockers for the engineering team.
• Code & Quality Reviews: Act as the primary backup for the Data Architect on technical reviews. You are responsible for performing Pull Request (PR) and code reviews to ensure quality and adherence to platform standards.
• Pipeline Delivery: Ensure data pipelines are delivered according to business needs and platform standards. You will oversee the development lifecycle to ensure what is built matches the technical specifications.
• Platform Collaboration: Collaborate with the Data Architect and Platform teams to ensure development activities conform to architectural standards (Snowflake/dbt best practices).
• Execution Oversight: Oversee project timelines, milestones, key risks, and deliverables to ensure successful project completion.
• Multi-Project Leadership: Lead the delivery of multiple ongoing projects, ensuring alignment with program and organizational roadmaps.
• Risk Management: Proactively monitor risks, identify potential issues, and develop mitigation strategies to communicate effectively with project stakeholders.
• Methodology: Apply Agile project management concepts to ensure solutions delivered are aligned with business goals and deliver a good user experience.
• Data Delivery: Own delivery of data initiatives across demand & supply planning, inventory & working capital, procurement & supplier performance, manufacturing & capacity utilization, transportation, logistics, and order fulfillment
• Deliver trusted datasets and analytics for Inventory levels, OTIF, forecast accuracy, lead time, fill rate, and cost-to-serve, supplier spend efficiency, metrics etc.,
• Lead data delivery across core supply chain systems, including but not limited to ERP (SAP S/4HANA, ECC, Oracle), Planning tools (Kinaxis, o9, Blue Yonder, SAP IBP), WMS, TMS, MES, Ariba and supplier systems.
• Point of Contact: Serve as the single point of contact for assigned Supply Chain data initiatives regarding all data engineering and delivery needs.
• Client Relationships: Maintain strong client relationships through regular communication and meetings, ensuring expectations are met or exceeded.
• Translation: Translate business needs into technical requirements and long-term scalable solutions.
• Facilitation: Facilitate communication and collaboration between business teams and data engineers.
• Resource Allocation: Evaluate requirements and allocate resources based on priorities, availability, and expertise.
• Consultant Oversight: Manage Data Engineering Consultants across internal teams, monitoring their performance, utilization, and project progress.
• Conflict Resolution: Mediate any issues or challenges between consultants, technical teams, and project stakeholders.
• Best Practices: Enforce standards, policies, and procedures for data engineering practices to ensure consistency.
• Compliance: Ensure data pipelines and solutions are developed per aligned standards.
• Technical Alignment: Enforce best practices for data ingestion and ensure the team adheres to the standard internal stack.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of hands-on experience working with data engineering tools such as Snowflake, dbt, SQL, Airflow, Python, GitHub, Sigma and Domo
• 3+ years leading delivery for Supply Chain operational analytics
• Strong understanding of supply chain processes and KPIs (forecast accuracy, OTIF, inventory turns, lead times, supplier spend efficiency etc)
• Experience integrating data from ERP and supply chain execution systems
• Proficiency in Data Modeling, Data Warehousing, and Pipeline building (to support technical oversight).
• Proven experience in project management and program management, fostering collaboration across cross-functional teams.
Preferred:
• Experience with SAP, Oracle, or leading planning platforms (Kinaxis, o9, Blue Yonder)
• Exposure to advanced analytics / optimization / AI use cases in supply chain
• Master’s Degree.
• Background in consumer packaged goods (CPG) or Supply Chain.
• Experience working in a federated data environment.
• Experience managing the design and delivery of highly technical and complex platforms.
• Strong leadership qualities with the ability to prioritize and balance competing needs from various stakeholder groups.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to gather and relay information and timelines to the organization.
• Advanced understanding of an organization’s strategic initiatives and objectives.
• Ability to manage complexity to provide customers with simple solutions.
Company:
Make More Smiles. Founded in 1806, the company is headquartered in New York, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.