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Colgate-Palmolive is a leading consumer products company that serves hundreds of millions of consumers worldwide with brands and products across four core businesses – Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care and Pet Nutrition. We are committed to offering products that make lives healthier and more enjoyable, and programs that enrich communities around the world.
A career at Colgate-Palmolive is an excellent opportunity if you seek a global experience, constant challenge, and development opportunities in an environment that respects work/life effectiveness.
Job Title: Oral Care Consultant (East Scotland)
Travel Required?: Travel - 75% of time or more
Date: Mar 11, 2025
Hybrid
No Relocation Assistance Offered
Job Number#165869 - Surrey, England, United Kingdom
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.
Location: East Scotland
Reporting to: Senior Dental Area Manager
Job Purpose
The Oral Care Consultants are field-based specialists who work in close partnership with UK dental professionals. This role involves detailing, selling, and merchandising Colgate products to either existing or new customers in the dental sector. Oral Care Consultants are field-based and are crucial in maintaining and building brand awareness and sales for our professional products range.
What you will do
1. Visit dentists, hygienists & therapists within dental practices, area health authorities, hospitals, and dental hospitals located within your territory.
2. Establish contact, build rapport, sell specialist Professional products, drive recommendation & endorsement for our consumer brands.
3. Educate the dental professional and their teams in specific oral care areas, as well as the benefits of our Colgate products.
4. Work closely with your Area Manager to develop your skills and capability through coaching and an individual development plan.
5. Maintain and collate customer records within our C4C system, summarising where you have been, who you have seen, salient points of the conversation, competitor activity, and feedback about our Colgate products.
6. Complete quarterly business plans and weekly visit plans.
7. Provide technical/scientific and product information through arranging, administering, and presenting at trade exhibitions, educational group meetings to dentists, and on a one-to-one basis.
8. Provide on-going feedback to Professional Marketing and Sales team.
9. Deliver upon daily KPI’s, which involve contacting dental professionals and their teams face to face and by video call/phone for remote regions of Scotland.
Who you are
1. Strong relationship building skills.
2. Excellent communication skills (written and oral).
3. Expertise in consultative and solutions selling.
4. Customer/Consumer centric in your approach.
5. Experienced in being customer facing in the field.
6. The ability to communicate clearly and concisely complex concepts (Medical and Scientific data) to customers.
7. Analytical skills.
8. The ability to make customer-centric sales recommendations.
9. Exposure to working/partnering with healthcare professionals would be an advantage but is not essential.
Core competencies
1. Planning and Priority Setting.
2. Analytical/Decision Making.
3. Promote Teamwork.
4. Results Oriented.
Travel Requirements
Expected percentage of travel: Up to 100%
Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
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.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Colgate is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, marital status, veteran status (United States positions), or any other characteristic protected by law.
Reasonable accommodation during the application process is available for persons with disabilities. Please complete this request form should you require accommodation.
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