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Job Number163739 : Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Who We Are
Colgate:Palmolive Company is a global consumer products company operating in over 200 countries specialising 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, lets build a brighter, healthier future for all.
Location: Woking
Reporting to: Senior Strategic Category Development Lead
Why Work For Colgate Palmolive:
The learning and development opportunities: You will refine your commercial mindset and continue to learn new skills working closely with a cross:functional team giving you exposure to all local market departments.
The challenge and variety: You will operate in a fast paced operational environment, directly impacting the day:to:day performance of the business, with personal accountability for your business.
The global experience: You will have the opportunity to work with global brands, participate in global strategies with potential to develop your career internationally.
The Colgate Values: We are Caring, We are Inclusive, and We are Courageous are integral to how we operate every day
Job purpose
This role will build and deliver compelling stories for Customers that provide insight into how shopper behaviours are influencing our categories. You will be recognised as the impartial category authority, a growth consultant for our Buyers; responsible for highlighting opportunities, developing and delivering initiatives that will drive category and brand growth and differentiate Colgate:Palmolive from its competition. You will influence upstream the Revenue Growth Management (RGM) initiatives and growth narratives that we demonstrate with the UK and Irish trade.
You will elevate our Category Management service to that of a strategic, visionary category consultant, aligned with and demonstrating our RGM initiatives, and driving engagement at multiple levels of our retail partners, on a multi:year horizon. You will set us apart from our competitors by offering an outstanding service and demonstrating the leadership to grow our categories.You will collaborate widely through the use of category intelligence, shopper:centric insights and a sound understanding of the our key challenges in order to deliver an outstanding category service.
What you will do
:Ensure outstanding category development principles are delivered day in, day out.
:Conduct regular category environmental assessments that help us and our customers fully understand the category challenges and improve opportunities.
:Share category expertise across the wider business community to deepen customer and category understanding. Proactively identify commercial opportunities. Work with Customer Development and Marketing Teams to implement proven 5P recommendations and tactics that drive growth.
:Build and develop independent relationships with customers, establishing Colgate:Palmolive as the go to key partner for objective category and shopper insights.
:Work cross functionally to develop and externalise category trade stories for Oral Care and Personal Care to unlock category growth for Colgate:Palmolive and our partners.
:Provide key input into the direction and implementation of NPD.
:Adapt, implement and champion ongoing dialogue and execution of our Category Growth Drivers with customers. Develop customer specific growth plans (internally and externally).
:Proactively sell:in Colgate Palmolive's Category Management expertise with the aim of establishing Colgate Palmolive as the first point of contact for Category Planning and shopper insight and i