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Job Number #163720 - San Josee, San Jose, Costa Rica

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.

JOB SUMMARY

This position represents the Colgate Palmolive company, managing the relationship with the client based on trust and respect, marketing and developing the 5p's of the different product categories, in order to increase sales profitably, improve levels of their distribution and market shares, in accordance with our business principles and maintaining a healthy credit portfolio. Helps prepare, negotiate and implement JBP, marketing and promotional campaigns to drive demand. Forecast, develop, implement and supervise customer specific plans to achieve our commercial goals of net sales, share, margin, within budget spend. Communicate plans to field teams for in-store support. Visit stores to better understand implementation challenges to optimize future approaches. Share findings, insights and recommendations. In an omnichannel landscape you need to be curious and Digitally Savvy with an agile approach to adapt to it. You need to understand the dynamics of eCommerce and seek innovative solutions.

Essential Functions

• Developing and maintaining relationships between Colgate Palmolive and Customers. Implement CP's commercial strategies, ensuring the correct execution of 5p's.
• Enforce credit policies defined by CP. Achieve sales objectives of the assigned territory. Maintain and Manage proactive communication with customers, participate on Top to Top meetings, activity grid negotiation, Joint Business Planning monitoring.
• Carry out the administrative work of the account which includes: request for credit notes, rebates, or support for them, monitoring and maintenance of the current account.
• Trade Visits to identify opportunities, competitors activities, and ensure correct 5Ps execution. Customer Inventory Management, ensuring correct Days on Hand (DOH) by customer, and on point of sales both regular exhibition and additional off shelf exhibition.
• Analyze information generated through statistics to make the right decisions that benefit the company and the customer, such as promotional plans, negotiation and monitoring of Growth Plans, programming and offers planning for each customer, Joint Business Plan (JBP) preparation.
• Monitor the performance of each team member (when applicable) through the PM and D (Performance Management and Development) process. Provide advice and timely feedback for the staff development and achievement of business objectives, ensuring that all the members of the team are clear about the R&R of their positions and promoting teamwork to ensure a motivated team oriented to their results.
• Oversee the execution of 5P strategy implementation within established commercial guidelines. Drive incremental distribution and growth while increasing visibility with scale.

Education Details

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Marketing and Engineering

Work Experience & Qualifications

• At least 2 years In Commercial Area.
• Trade marketing experience in consumer goods company
• Preferred: WM-Price Smart and National Accounts experience
• 75% of English language

Required Negotiation Skills Required

• Intermediate-advanced Excel for handling large amounts of information.
• Required Computer Literacy Office, Google Tools- Retailink and SAP management Preferred

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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