STELLA COBBINAH

Stella Cobbinah
Manager, North America Personal & Home Care Quality
Colgate-Palmolive Company

Stella Cobbinah is Manager, North America Personal & Home Care Quality, based at the Colgate-Palmolive Technology Center in Piscataway NJ. She is responsible for the quality organization for both product categories, ensuring compliance with corporate Quality Standards and external regulatory requirements. She works closely with Global Technology Centers and End-to-End Supply Chain for the flawless technology transfer and implementation of new product launches, agile processes, cost savings initiatives, warehouse quality and continuous improvement.

Most recently, Stella was Quality & Technical Services Manager in Colgate-Palmolive South Pacific, leading the quality organization at the Home Care facility in Australia, and ensuring quality and regulatory compliance of warehouses, co-packers, contract manufacturers and imported products across all categories in the region. She also provided strong support and guidance during quality audits in the Asia Pacific division, including during site regulatory inspections by the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration and US Food & Drug Administration (FDA).

Stella joined Colgate in 1993, holding various roles in Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Quality at different locations (Kansas City KS, Morristown NJ, New York NY, Piscataway NJ). In 2014, Stella assumed the role of Quality Manager of the Morristown NJ facility. Her leadership contributed to outstanding performance and results, including managing a successful 2016 US FDA inspection and the smooth transition of production to the Greenwood SC facility.

Stella holds a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Missouri.