Customer Development Executive at Colgate-Palmolive



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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.

What will you do:

The Customer Development Executive (CDE) plays an important role in the Region in ensuring profitable growth by:

Category Management:

Understands the strategic importance of category management and drives use of it in key customers; has expertise in interpreting and applying the category management 8 step processes.

Strategic and Creative Thinking:

Takes initiative to understand emerging consumer and marketplace trends and thinks through implications for the categories, channels and customers; thinks in terms of regional concerns and global needs.

Consumer/Shopper Understanding:

Has a broad based of knowledge about the consumer (attitudes, habits, shopping behavior) for each channel; works with consumer insight professionals to define business goals and specific research objectives prior to developing trade research programs.

Trade Understanding and Relationships:

Adapts to rapid changes by customizing the way Colgate does business with customers in the different channels; works to understand the objectives and priorities of key customers; understands the key factors driving change in the trade environment and the implications for both Colgate and its customers.


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Cross-Organizational Relationships:

Encourages collaborative planning and problem resolution across channels and categories; prioritizes what's important across functions, channels, categories, and geographies; encourages others and personally develops good working relationships with professionals in other departments, regionally, globally, and in other countries.

Promotional Excellence:

Helps local teams drive the use of innovative and customized trade promotions focused on the customer's consumer and channel and conducts post analyses to learn from results; selects creative ways to leverage and invest trade money to drive customer's performance and profitability.

Business and Global Perspective:

Stays abreast of external business developments and understands their potential impact on Colgate's performance; brings cross disciplinary knowledge to bear on issues and opportunities; focuses on profitability and considers cost options when making decisions; actively integrates external and internal best practices and trends.

Communications:

Keeps people well informed of plans, goals and objectives; provides clear understanding of job priorities and performance expectations; clearly and simply expresses ideas and concepts

Required Qualifications:

  • A Bachelor’s Degree, Master's in Business Administration is desirable
  • Minimum 2 years of experience in an FMCG environment in a similar role
  • Fluent in English and local language
  • Valid Driving License


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