Category Management Specialist
Colgate-Palmolive
No Relocation Assistance Offered
Job Number #164867 - Del.Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico City, Mexico
**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.
**About The Role**
The **Category Management Specialist** helps to complete Best Practice templates for each stage of process for assigned categories using Nielsen and Consumer Insight studies to understand channel, segment and size trends, consumer needs and purchase decision process, purchase frequency, intensity and transaction size etc, with the objective of helping partner accounts improve management of the category through the supply chain to the point of sale.
**Main Responsibilities:**
+ Analyze partner account data and compare with market to identify category opportunities and develop category strategies and tactics for assortment, pricing, promotion and merchandising at the point of sale
+ Ensure RCD Category Management processes implementation across different customer in the Indirect Channel.
+ Manage category partnership process to ensure delivery of high quality, timely analysis and become an indispensable part of the account's business
+ Help evaluate and supervise all tests before, during and after implementation and against control stores in order to build understanding of the impact of different tactics at the point of sale and improve CP ́s overall understanding of category demand drivers
+ Merchandising/Shelf Management (Use of Planograms Softwares)
+ Finalize generic category planograms based on strategies and tactics developed in Best Practices process
+ Perform analysis of Account data and tailor planograms to account needs
+ Support Field Sales, Consumer Marketing and Channel requests for merchandising support to help us “win at the shelf”
**Basic Qualifications:**
+ Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
+ At least +2 years of experience as CATMAN or similar roles.
+ Experience managing Nielsen and/or Kantar
+ Google Suite Proficiency
+ Excel/Sheets Proficiency
+ Intermediate English Level
+ Experience managing Space planning and/or Spaceman
**_*Availability to travel up to 50% of the time_**
**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 (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdaxk\_eF4utznQoVHlxmL9jVFJbOkM4Oe5CAdKOg-h9EPdLfg/viewform) should you require accommodation.
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