No Relocation Assistance Offered Job Number #168789 - Surrey, England, United Kingdom **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. **Location: Woking, Surrey** **Reporting to: Customer Development Director** **Why Work for Colgate-Palmolive:** + **The learning & development opportunities:** You will refine your commercial mindset and continue to learnnew skills working closely with a cross-functional team giving you exposure to all local market departments. + **The challenge & variety:** You will operate in a fast paced operational environment, directly impacting theday-to-day performance of the business, with personal accountability for your business. + **The global experience:** You will have the opportunity to work with global brands, participate in globalstrategies with potential to develop your career internationally. + **The Colgate Values:** We are Caring, We are Inclusive and We are Courageous are integral to how weoperate every day. **Job Purpose:** As a Customer Development Manager, you'll build strong customer relationships to meet KPIs such as netsales, margin, and market share growth. You'll understand the retailer’s strategy and work on enhancingColgate-Palmolive's brand performance alongside Market Strategy, Shopper, Category, and Customer SupplyChain Managers. Lead strategic customer initiatives with creativity, ensuring mutually beneficial and sustainablebusiness decisions while managing shifting priorities and keeping the broader business informed. **What you will do:** + Achieve sales and profit targets by developing and managing a Joint Business Plan. + Use commercial insights to optimise business performance and seize opportunities. + Understand and enhance brand performance in alignment with the retailer's strategy. + Collaborate with Shopper Development and Category Managers to identify category growth opportunities. + Lead collaborative planning and maintain accurate forecasts on volume and sales. + Ensure correct financial processes are adhered to with support from Finance. + Build external networks to gain customer insights and identify new opportunities. + Strengthen internal networks to support retailer engagement and focus. **Who You Are:** + You are a strategic, business-minded individual who builds strong relationships and develops innovativesolutions. + With ambition and foresight, you excel in influencing and negotiation, achieving results efficiently. + Commercially astute individual, with the ability to build strong business relationships whilst developing andimplementing creative, sustainable, mutually profitable business solutions. + Forward-thinking, ambitious character, with strategic capabilities, able to influence and negotiate bothinternally and externally, with a clear commitment to delivering business results in a timely manner **Our Commitment to Inclusion** Our journey begins with our people—developing strong talent with diverse backgrounds and perspectives to best serve our consumers around the world and fostering an inclusive environment where everyone feels a true sense of belonging. We are dedicated to ensuring that each individual can be their authentic self, is treated with respect, and is empowered by leadership to contribute meaningfully to our business. **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 (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdaxk\_eF4utznQoVHlxmL9jVFJbOkM4Oe5CAdKOg-h9EPdLfg/viewform) should you require accommodation. \#LI-On-site