Current Opportunities at Colgate-Palmolive

Scope of Responsibilities:

1.    Identify, prioritize Shopper/RE Insights for specific RE (to be the specialist in the RE)
2.    Develop RE strategy and 5Ps by RE based on RE and shopper expertise/insights. Strategy needs to have clear mentorship by RE in every brand on 5 Ps
3.    Develop Promotion activity grid by RE and identify activities to grow the RE and customer
4.    Manage the GTN investment for the retail environment, p.e. TPR’s, PPR’s, Business builders Direct & Indirect. Develop a RE investment strategy & supervise the KPIs goals-pay for performance. Manage the visibility and activation budget in consumer promotion. Develop strategy and grids based on Category/RE strategy by brand. Seek alignment with Marketing teams
5.    Build strategies by RE based on Category Strategy provided by Marketing. Build RE grids that reflect the whole spectrum of 5Ps for our brands. Give input and approve customer grids based RE grids. Provide input on retailer perspective in commercial process
6.    Develop 5P’s communication tools to CDT to execute the plans.
7.    Responsible for 5P’s tracking, for continuously supervising and work w/ CDT for corrections when needed.
8.    Identify and activate RE Growth Initiatives and work together w/ RM Shopper Mkt including on the shopper programs
9.    Define Budget Review/MYR Volume plan & Financial Goals by RE aligned with commercial team
10.    Identify gaps and solutions by RE at accurate brand level in Monthly Commercial Meetings (CBP Monthly Discipline, OPMEET, Strategic Meetings, MYR, Budget Review, Annual Commercial Planning, etc.)
11.    Develop robust RE Business analysis. (e.g.SOM, Distrib.)

Required Qualifications:

1.    A Bachelor's degree
2.    Minimum 4 years of experience in a Customer Marketing or related role.

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Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the Protex brand: develop the Brand Growth Plan, innovation pipeline and communication plans that will drive growth of our business for the region. 
• Interact daily with the Global Marketing team, Cross functional teams and Communication agency teams to develop & strengthen our equity building plans
• Lead and coordinate innovation development with R&D, Regulatory, Legal, Supply Chain and Design / Packaging teams demonstrating insights and data analytics to build fact-based recommendations 
• Develop and implement our Protex innovation and activations plans in partnership with the 3 main Hubs (South Africa, East West Africa & Turkey / CACE) to facilitate outstanding best in class commercial execution & consistency
• Supervise in-market performance & financial relevant metrics to identify new volume / margin growth opportunities

Required Qualifications:

• B. Com/Degree / Honours in Marketing Management
• Minimum of 6 years of marketing experience; specific experience on innovation and within the FMCG industry would be preferable.
• Experience working in a Matrix environment
• Functional experience in marketing/ implementation of successful marketing plans, new products, digital campaign development
• Experience in managing relationships with senior individuals and within a demanding and fast paced environment 
• Experience in leading projects and collaborating with external suppliers 
• Seeking for an international career path, open to experiences in different markets and environments.

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Main responsibilities:

• Building relationships with key contacts (e.g. Operations & store managers) and providing customers with objective and trustworthy analysis of their business in order to ensure that customers carry an appropriate portfolio of Colgate products that receive optimal exposure at store level
• Conducting regular business reviews and follow-up on sales activity, new products, customer service, receivables, and claims
• Developing and executing customer plans that profitably increase sales volume, distribution and market share
• Working with logistics team to plan, analyze, and forecast customer(s) needs, to follow up on orders to ensure on time and complete delivery, and to prioritize customer requirements when product is unavailable
• Monitoring activity at store level and communicating competitive, category, and product (e.g. pricing, product assortment, promotion and placement) information impacting sales results to customer marketing and Customer management so that they can proactively respond with new strategies and tactics
• Tracking KPIs and taking action to improve performance

Required Qualifications:

• A Bachelor's degree or NQF equivalent
• Minimum 5 years of experience in a similar role in an FMCG environment, Modern Trade/ Personal Care would be advantageous.
• Previous experience in managing a field sales team & 3rd party Sales Agents

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Main Responsibilities:

• Category Knowledge, Business Challenges & Insights 
• Deliver Category Knowledge (Be the shopper expert for the customers)
• Identify insight driven Business Challenges for key customers Joint Category Planning
• Deliver the Retail Category Development Services to their customers aligned with Category management RM priorities and direction
• Develop 3 year shopper plan aligned to customer engagement strategy (for priority customers)
• Develop annual category & shopper plan integrated within Joint Business Planning.
• Recommend customer differentiation opportunities (with CD)
• Shopper Program Development & Activation 
• Activate Shopper programs
• Refine programs to customer shopper & targeted vehicles
• Translate insight and business challenges into recommended category strategies & solutions (activation platforms)
• Deliver regular shopper return on investment reviews for key activities
• Leverage RE/customer-specific shopper insight & customer analytics to Tailor the 5Ps by RE to the customer(s) formats, considering customer strategies and policies
• Communicating 5P targets to Operations and monitoring implementation

Required Qualifications:

• A Bachelor's degree
• Minimum 5 years of experience in a similar role in an FMCG environment 

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CORE RESPONSIBILITIES :

• Ensuring that all laboratory personnel use the proper specifications or an associated compendial monograph.
• Ensure that all quality standards are fully implemented in the labs. Conduct regular assessment against the standard requirements.
• Distribute work assignments and ensure on time completion and release of raw materials, bulk and third party products.
• Ensure packaging, raw material, in-process, bulk product, and finished product testing is scheduled efficiently and in support of production scheduling.
• Ensure that the online quality ratings and assessments are accurately completed and results are shared with the team.
• Work with operations to close recurring online quality related issues.
• Ensure that products are released or rejected as appropriate.
• Anticipate problem areas and resolve issues before they impact compliance, product quality, and availability.
• Work with management to streamline operations to ensure that the department operates efficiently.
• Work with the staff for investigating all Out of Specification (OOS) results and properly documenting them.
• Provide technical support for Manufacturing, Quality Assurance and R&D (as applicable) on questionable batches and results.
• Provide regular reports to management regarding products presently in the laboratory along with their testing status and planned completion date.
• Work with peers in developing and implementing laboratory documents (SOPs, Specifications, Protocols, Reports, etc.).
• Performs other duties as assigned
• Complies with all policies and standards

LEVEL OF EDUCATION

• A bachelor's degree preferably in Chemistry / Microbiology / related fields

LEVEL OF EXPERIENCE 

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in a high volume production work or FMCG environment, including 2 - 4 years of First Line Management experience

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What you will do:

• Support the IT onboarding process of new employees, including providing access and familiarization to all relevant technology required to successfully perform their duties
• Perform system administration activities and ensure compliance with maintenance policies and security requirements
• Coordinate  PC and IT equipment procurement, replacement and maintenance, including asset tracking, Manage relationships with external vendors where appropriate.
• Ensure audit compliance through everyday activities and quarterly evidence gathering processes
• Coordinate A/V support/implementations as guided by the Colgate/Hill’s technology roadmap, through partnership with external vendors.
• Review support issues and provide second level site support as required (e.g. PC, MacOS, software deployments, email and collaboration tools, mobile devices, AV equipment, Active Directory, LAN/WAN communications)
• Guide software asset management practices locally and globally while maintaining close compliance with Colgate license policies
• Align with  software asset management practices locally and globally while maintaining close compliance with Colgate license policies
• Coordinate and manage with relevant people any system performance and reliability issues to include plant floor systems, engineering, server, network, application, security and other responsible teams
• Act as a liaison with other technology teams in order to escalate and resolve plant / subsidiary and business issues and requirements and ensure business critical GIT issues are resolved in the appropriate manner
• Understand and communicate plant / subsidiary business needs to GIT organization and support the subsidiary management through the project planning process.
• Provide local coordination and planning for grid projects
• Understand and ensure local alignment with GIT standards, policies and procedures
• Track local IT costs and leverage cost savings opportunities
• Ensure Service Level Targets are met, and where they are not appropriate corrective action is undertaken.
• Takes responsibility for the safekeeping and storage of Colgate’s IT Assets
• Assist in documenting IT Support Services processes and procedures for on-site IT Operations.

Required qualifications :

• A Bachelor's degree (preferred majors in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or Business) 
• Minimum of 4 years of experience working in an IT support environment.
• Technical Expertise: Competent to expert skill level in implementing and supporting the following technologies:
• End user devices (PC’s, Apple Compute, Smart Phones, Tablets)
• Windows 10 / Mac OS / Server 2016 / Windows Active Directory
• LAN (including Cisco wireless),
• Google G-Suite Workplace

Preferred qualifications :

• A/V experience 
• IT/OT Network and Controls experience 
• Demonstrated ability to quickly learn new technology and functionality in a fast paced environment, adapt and work effectively with a variety of situations, individuals and cultures