Sr. Manager, North America Category Strategy

Relocation Assistance Offered Within Country
Job Number #166622 - New York, New York, United States

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.
 

As the North America Category Strategy Manager, Home Care, you'll deliver strategic thought leadership, insights, and solutions to accelerate omni growth for North America Enterprise. You will be the national shopper behavior & category expert for the Customer Development Organization and partner to the Retail Marketing Leads (Sr. BDM). This position will report to the Director of Category Management. You will be responsible for designing, facilitating, and implementing personal care/ home care/ oral care category strategies, developing processes and tools for field sales and retail customers, and influencing corporate strategy for key business areas.
 

Who you are:

• You have a strategic mindset -  Leveraging insights and analytics to articulate the category, segment and occasion trends will be important. Similarly, strategically planning for new, existing and exiting assortment will be necessary. You will enable the broader strategy with category partners and in partnership with customer teams.
• You love to integrate multiple data sources - You have a track record of providing customer specific recommendations based on your ability to synthesize customer shopper data, insights & point of sale data. 
• You are customer focused - Our Customers and the Field Sales team will rely on you to represent them and serve as their voice to several headquarter functions. You will ensure that the voice of our Retailers / Sales teams is represented within our strategies & plans. You will also be the voice of the category team to the field team to help clarify and build confidence in the strategic plans.
• You have operational insights - Driving a strong alignment and partnership with the sales team will be key to your success. It is important to be inclusive of both the account managers and the execution leads to identify needs, timing, distribution, execution & support plans, etc. You will work on articulating, producing, and selling the annual category strategy.
• You're a storyteller - You have the strong ability to interpret, integrate and communicate shopper behavior, insights & POS data.  You can successfully tell fact-based stories to drive Colgate & category solutions.
• You collaborate - You will work cross-functionally across the Colgate Palmolive organization.  You will have significant partnership needs across our entire Commercial Organization: Insights and Analytics, Marketing, Supply Chain, Research & Development, and Sales.
• You are a leader - You take the lead by influencing the agenda through collaboration, negotiation and thought leadership.  It is critical for you to be able to lead a group of diverse functions and ensure they are all working towards progressive initiatives.
• You are curious - You are constantly looking for opportunities to improve and seek creative solutions. You dig into the reason behind the numbers, are able to look at the results and find out the reasons for what is driving those results and guide the team accordingly. 

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree
• 8+ years of Consumer, Shopper Insights, Shopper Behavior and/or Category Management experience 
• Experience working with customer Shopper Behavior Data (Luminate,Dunhumby, ExtraCare, 1010, etc.) 
• Experience working with Household Panel data (Numerator, Nielsen Panel, etc.) 
   

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience working with a syndicated service (Nielsen, IRI) account required  
• Experience working in consumer product goods 
• Experience working on cross-functional teams
• Microsoft Office or Google Suite proficiency (i.e, Sheets, Slides, Docs) 

Compensation and Benefits
Salary Range $120,000.00 - $168,000.00 USD

Pay is determined based on experience, qualifications, and location. Salaried employees may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses, profit-sharing, and lo