Job Title:  Customer Development Assistant

No Relocation Assistance Offered
Job Number #164260 - Budapest, Budapest, Hungary

Who We Are

Colgate-Palmolive Company is a global consumer products company operating in over 200 countries specialising 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.
 

MIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE:

Customer Development (CD) Assistant provides support to Group CD Manager and CD Managers. They develop and support the partnership between CP, the customers / retailers by helping to align our category/brand strategies and their shopper strategies to increase demand and Retailer support for our profitable growth. Aligning our in-store tactics through all the distribution steps up to the retailers to ensure we get our products into the POS, off the shelf, and into the home of our shoppers cost effectively and more efficiently than our competition. 

Employment thorugh an agency, contract up to 18 months

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES:

1. Business Development

• Assisting in daily operational work of the assigned Customer Development Team

• Conducting market/customer/brand data analysis to understand trends and opportunities

• Developing presentations to point opportunities to customers and for internal events

• Creating customer and category reports, listing forms, collect and inform customers about logistics data changes

• Contact the customer if needed regarding the given tasks

• Other administrative tasks related to sales activities

• Select and archive flyers, collect competitor info, creating analyzes

• Take part in the preparation and maintenance of reports and other sales information required to be retained.

• Supporting Sales Managers in forecast process and Customer Planning, Pre-Evaluation and Customer Execution

• Managing invoices, checking and controlling prices, work close to Customer Service

• Keep SR updated about changing assortment and promos

• Monitoring and controlling execution of promotions and promo map update

• Any other ad-hoc task or activity as required by the direct manager.

2. 5P Definition and Deployment

• Monitoring and controlling execution of promotions

• Monitoring listings and shipments of new products and promotions

• Support in deploying RE activity grid by customers

3. Commercial and Business Planning Process

• Support for CDMs in preparation for KAM review, ROI day and business reviews

• Support CDMs in forecast process with Atlas - Customer Planning, Pre-Evaluation and Customer Execution

COMPETENCIES: 

• Effective communication

• Effective, precise execution

• Priorities setting

• Analytical and detailed approach to work

• Teamwork and collaboration

• Native Hungarian language and good command of English language (both written and verbal)

• Google Suite proficiency (i.e., Sheets, Slides, Docs) and MS Office (MS Excel -Pivot Tables, VLookups)

REQUIREMENTS/EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

• University/college degree in Economics, Marketings, Business Administration or other relevant field is an advantage

• Up to 2-3 years of working experience in sales/marketing at multinational companies is an advantage

• SAP knowledge is preferred

• Good organizational skills

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, colour, 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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