ORGANISATION
With 38 500 employees in more than 200 countries, COLGATE PALMOLIVE is one of the most global players amongst the world’s leading consumer goods companies. Colgate clearly focuses on the development of its 17 billion $ business in 5 major categories: oral care, personal care, household cleaning, fabric care and pet nutrition. Colgate is the true global leader in the oral care market, but also holds very strong regional leading positions within the other categories. Its appealing and innovative products under brand names such as Colgate, Elmex, Palmolive, Unicura, Ajax and Sanex, are part of everyday consumer’s lives.
Therefore, we are looking for a:
JUNIOR CUSTOMER DEVELOPMENT MANAGER
POSITION
As a Junior Customer Development Manager you have a crucial role in ensuring an excellent execution of the day-to-day customer business in a complex business environment where commercial talent is an important success factor. You will be part of a young, ambitious team led by Mark Sax (Sales Manager Food). You’ll be responsible for customer coordination, customer analysis and customer and category management.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Be a customer coordinator for Jumbo & Superunie (including 13 Superunie members such as Dirk van den Broek and PLUS supermarkets);
- Planning, analysis, and adapting pricing and promotions in the Colgate Business Planning tool;
- Key-contact regarding promotions, product changes, new product launches and media advertisements for Jumbo & Superunie (members);
- Day-to-day contact with marketing, demand planning, supply chain and other relevant departments in the organization;
- Develop the costumer analysis tools (e.g. promo tool) to provide the commercial team with in-depth insights on how to improve the costumer net sales and margin per promotion;
- Join the Costumer Development Manager on visits to costumers to learn ‘the art of costumer relationship building, category management and negotiating’ to eventually manage costumers independently.
PROFILE CANDIDATES
- Bachelor/ university degree with a commercial/ financial direction;
- Experience in the FMCG industry and natural curiosity in the Dutch Retail Environment;
- Bilingual Dutch/English.
RELEVANT COMPETENCES
- Passionate about brands and customers;
- Strong Can-Do mentality;
- Team player (easily develops relationship with customers and key people in other functions and at other levels);
- Strong analytic skills;
- Accurate and curious;
- Enjoys analyzing business performance;
Very strong competency in Excel and Powerpoint.