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Colgate Palmolive lists this People Business Partner, Sanford Plant (176226) opportunity in sanford, Maine. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Career Opportunities: People Business Partner, Sanford Plant )
Requisition ID -Posted09/23/2026 -Global People -United States -Maine -Sanford -Colgate-Palmolive -Travel - up to 10% of time -On-site
Relocation Assistance Offered Within Country
Job Number# - Sanford, Maine, 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.
Human Resources professionals are consistently drawn to Colgate-Palmolive by the exceptional opportunities for career advancement and a strong alignment with our globally recognized, purpose-driven brand and company Values: We are Caring, We are Inclusive, We are Courageous. While we offer competitive Total Rewards, new team members frequently highlight our welcoming company culture and the high caliber of the people they work alongside as primary reasons for joining our team. Within our Global People function, we foster a culture of high trust and autonomy, ensuring you feel empowered to make impactful decisions and directly influence our broader strategic priorities while you build a fulfilling, long-term career.
As a People Business Partner for Tom’s of Maine Sanford Plant, you will provide leadership as a key member of the site leadership team on strategic business and human resource priorities including organization design and capabilities, learning and development, employee engagement, change management initiatives and organization effectiveness that will shape the future of our workforce. As a business partner to managers and employees, you will have responsibilities to perform a variety of complex, professional HR activities across labor relations/issue resolution, policy/process development and renewal to ensure compliance with company policies as well as federal and state employment legislation. The right candidate will be able to meet the day-to-day requirements of the Human Resources function while maintaining a strategic and operational view to produce positive impact, sustainable growth and foster an inclusive culture at Tom’s.
Responsibilities
Partner with People Business Partner Directors/Leaders, People Experience, Global People CoE to drive proactive development and engagement including continuously improving moments that matter and global people programs.
Leverage data analytics and organizational diagnostics to deliver insights-driven solutions and to make informed decisions that drive employee experience, deliver business outcomes, and enable strategic workforce plans.
Support talent and succession planning initiatives which is inclusive of managing, identifying capability and talent gaps, and building plans to proactively strengthen talent development ensuring a robust and diverse pipeline of future leaders for current and future long-term priorities.
Serve as a trusted thought partner to business leaders focused on talent and workforce strategies, long-term organizational performance, and scalable transformative enablers.
Create and deploy people solutions that enable highly impactful and effective team performance.
Deploy leadership development and capability building initiatives focused on advancing our strong culture and increasing our agility and change readiness for evolving market shifts
Drive organizational effectiveness, ensuring People strategies are aligned with evolving business priorities, managing complex organization design projects and large-scale change management implementations.
Grow frontline capabilities and support effective management of the People Capabilities Standard in compliance with the Colgate Factory Performance & Reliability (FP&R) Program.
Model effective coaching to guide and support managers in developing corrective actions and ensure proper documentation and follow up for low performing employees.
Foster a positive labor environment with functional leaders and others to develop and implement strategic organization plans, site wide strategic labor relations plans, and near and long term resource / staffing plans.
Required Qualifications
Bachelor’s Degree
Minimum of 5+ years of progressive human resources experience, with a focus on business partnership.
Proven experience working across a complex, matrixed organization with a clear global perspective
Demonstrated ability to build credibility with leaders and influence decisions through data, insights, and sound judgement.
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Worksite address
sanford, ME, 04073, US
Who can apply
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