Get to Know Colgate-Palmolive

Discover what it’s like to work at Colgate-Palmolive

January 2023

Who We Are

We are Colgate, a caring, innovative growth company reimagining a healthier future for all people, their pets and our planet. We’re a passionate team of 34,000 employees serving hundreds of millions of people – and their pets – around the globe. Focused on Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care and Pet Nutrition and reaching more than 200 countries and territories, Colgate teams develop, produce, distribute, and market health and hygiene products and pet nutrition essential to society. In addition to Colgate and Palmolive, our trusted brands include elmex, meridol, Tom’s of Maine, hello, Sorriso, Speed Stick, Softsoap, Irish Spring, Protex, Sanex, Filorga, eltaMD, PCA Skin, Ajax, Axion, Fabuloso, Soupline and Suavitel, as well as Hill’s Science Diet and Hill’s Prescription Diet.

What We Care About 

At Colgate, we take a people-centric approach: we care about our people, consumers, communities, shareholders, business and partners. We are committed to acting ethically, with compassion, integrity, and honesty in all situations, to listening with respect to others, and to celebrating our differences. We are also committed to protecting the environment, and enhancing the communities where we live and work.

All Colgate people are part of a global team – One Colgate – working together across departments and around the world. Only by sharing ideas, technologies, and talents can we achieve and sustain profitable growth.

We are equally committed to getting better every day in everything we do, as individuals and as teams. By better understanding consumer needs and customers’ expectations and continuously working to innovate and improve products, services, and processes, we will achieve our highest potential and reimagine a healthier future for all.

Our values of Caring, Global Teamwork, and Continuous Improvement guide everything that we do. 

We’re honored to be named a World’s Best Employer by Forbes, a 100 Best Company by Seramount, a Best Workplace for Innovators by Fast Company, and a Top 25 Consumer Goods Company by LinkedIn. And we’re so proud of the collective efforts of ALL Colgate People who champion sustainability across our organization, which has resulted in Colgate-Palmolive being named a Most Sustainable Company of 2022 by Worth Media, a 100 Best Corporate Citizen by 3BL Media, one of America’s Most Responsible Companies by Newsweek, a Top 100 U.S. Company Supporting Healthy Families and Communities by JUST Capital, and making the CDP Climate and Water A Lists. 

How We Foster a Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive Workplace

Achieving our purpose starts with our people— ensuring our workforce represents the people and communities we serve—and creating an environment where our people feel they belong; where we can be our authentic selves, feel treated with respect and have the support of leadership to impact the business in a meaningful way. If we do these things well, when we maintain diverse, open and honest input from each other, our partners and customers, we succeed. Learn more about how we are advancing diversity, equity and inclusion in our workplace and around the world here.

Our employee resource groups (ERGs) are vital to helping us build a diverse, equitable and inclusive organization, where all Colgate People feel we belong and can be our authentic selves. In the United States, we have 11 ERGs with 24 Chapters, each of which celebrate individual and collective diversity, contribute to our employees’ personal and professional development, and offer the opportunity—especially in a hybrid work environment—to  connect with each other. They are also spaces where people of similar backgrounds can get together to discuss issues affecting their communities, create awareness for how Colgate can provide support, and invite their colleagues to join them as allies. 

• Asian Action Network / AspirAsian

• Black Leadership Network

• Colgate Abilities Network

• Colgate Women’s Network

• CP Lit Club

• Hill’s Sustainability Network

• Hill’s Veterans Leadership Network

• Jumpstart Network

• Latinx Leadership Network

• LGBTQ&A Network / Hill’s Pride Tribe

• Parents Network

We’re honored to be named a Top 100 Company for Diversity and Inclusion by Refinitiv, a Best Company to work for Multicultural Women and a Top Company for Executive Women by Seramount, A Top 50 Company for Diversity by DiversityInc, a Best Place to Work for Disability Inclusion by Disability:IN, as well as a Best Place to Work for Women and Diverse Managers by Diversity MBA Magazine.

How We Take Care Of Our People

At Colgate-Palmolive, we care about our people. Our robust benefits* offerings are a key way our value of “caring” comes to life. Below are some of the benefits and learning opportunities provided to our employees in the United States.