The small soap and candle business that William Colgate began in New York City early in the 19th century is now, more than 200 years later, a truly global company serving hundreds of millions of consumers worldwide. Throughout this history, Colgate people and Colgate values have been at the heart of our success.

Account Manager – Food

Who We Are
Colgate-Palmolive Company is a caring, innovative growth company that is reimagining a healthier future for all people, their pets and our planet. Focused on Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care and Pet Nutrition, we sell our products in more than 200 countries and territories under brands such as Colgate, Palmolive, elmex, hello, meridol, Sorriso, Tom’s of Maine, EltaMD, Filorga, Irish Spring, PCA SKIN, Protex, Sanex, Softsoap, Speed Stick, Ajax, Axion, Fabuloso, Soupline and Suavitel, as well as Hill’s Pet Nutrition.

We are recognized for our leadership and innovation in promoting sustainability and community wellbeing, including our achievements in decreasing plastic waste and promoting recyclability, saving water, conserving natural resources and improving children’s oral health.

If you want to work for a company that lives by their values, then give your career a reason to smile and join our global team!

Account Manager –  Food

Do you want to be part of a young, ambitious and diverse team ? What about having the opportunity to connect with others across the world, full of stimulating discussions, and making impactful contributions? If this is how you see your career, Colgate-Palmolive is the place to be!

Our iconic brands (e.g. Colgate, elmex, Ajax and Sanex), dedicated employees, and sustainability commitments make us a company passionate about building a future to smile about for our employees, consumers, and surrounding communities.

We’re looking for an Account Manager within our successful subsidiary located in Amsterdam (Weesp), the Netherlands.

The focus of the Account Manager is to build strong partnerships with the retailers to ensure a mutually profitable business. Furthermore the Account Manager is responsible for delivering market shares, sales and margin at your accounts.

This role will be reporting to the Sr. Account Manager who is responsible for Food in the Netherlands.

What you’ll do 

Customers: e.g. Dirk & Plus

External

• Be the lead contact for key Superunie members Dirk & Plus
• Demonstrate a clear understanding of the customer strategy, their shopper and how Colgate-Palmolive can optimize their brands and strategy within this environment
• Demonstrate commercial drive to identify issues and opportunities for resolution/optimization and target achievement.
• Day to day contact with our Food customers
• Yearly negotiation

Internal

• Develop tailored commercial plans & implement them via a Joint Business Planning
• Work closely and creatively with a cross-functional commercial team (e.g. finance, consumer engagement, category management and logistics) to identify, develop and implement the appropriate business solutions required to drive the business forward

Whoa, this is totally me

• 2-5 years experience in account management or marketing within a FMCG company.
• An optimist in action;
• Fluent in Dutch English
• Hands-on “can do” approach, with willingness to learn and adapt quickly
• A Bachelor or Master degree
• Good knowledge & understanding of the FMCG industry and Dutch Retail
• Passionate about brands and shopper behavior
• Team player (easily develops relationship with customers and colleagues in other functions) with a winner mentality focused on delivering results
• Strong analytical skills, accurate, curious and pragmatic

What we offer you! 

• A unique opportunity to be part of a bold, optimistic and young successful team
• Flexibility; we have a hybrid working model providing the empowerment to take ownership of your work-life balance. There is the opportunity to work partly remote and in the summer months the flexibility to enjoy the weekend earlier on Friday afternoons.
• An attractive salary package with bonus, a car (allowance) and 13th month
• Professional advantages of a multicultural environment that supports your development and recognizes your achievements
• International career possibilities.

If you’ve read this far, we bet it’s because you’re serious about joining a group of passionate people so just hit the “apply” button, submit your application and give your career a reason to smile about!

Our Commitment to Sustainability
With the Colgate brand in more homes than any other, we are presented with great opportunities and new challenges as we work to integrate sustainability into all aspects of our business and create positive social impact. We are determined to position ourselves for further growth as we act on our 2025 Sustainability & Social Impact Strategy.

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 contact Application_Accommodation@colpal.com with the subject “Accommodation Request” should you require accommodation.

Brand Manager

Given the constant evolution in consumer behaviours of today, it is an exciting time to be a part of our highly energetic and focused Consumer Marketing Team, which is centered around people-centric need spaces. As a Brand Manager, you will get the opportunity to be an orchestrator of the brand throughout the consumer journey to ensure holistic platform solutions

Who are you:

A brand strategist

• Curate the brand strategy by mapping consumer and competitor insights and trends and operationalise it by co-developing an Annual Grid of activities with the Leadership based on the category strat. plan

A product imagineer

• Develop creative solutions to innovate and transform the products to be relevant in the current context and suited to the consumers’ need and purpose

An owner of remarkable commercial success

• Have complete clarity and command on the P&L of the brand, orient yourself towards driving a positive impact on the top and bottom-line margin and improving profitability by carefully planning investments for long-term brand building

A storyteller of the brand

• Craft a precise story for communicating your brand in an evocative way and give way to best-in-class media planning by partnering with Digital Media Managers across platforms (IMC, E-commerce, Omnichannel REs)

A mirror of the consumer

• Be a fly on the wall and constantly practice social listening to be glued to everyday consumer chatter, chase consumer footprints across online and offline touchpoints of the consumer journey and swiftly act on the inputs received through an analysis of promotions, packaging, advertising etc.

Required:

• MBA in Marketing and Sales from a tier-1 B-school
• 4+ years of overall post-MBA experience, preferably in FMCG
• Atleast 2years of experience in field sales
• Strong business acumen and data and analytics skills

Customer Development Manager – Istanbul, Kocaeli and/or Bursa

As the Customer Development Manager – Indirect Trade (IDT), you are responsible for achieving sustainable growth in sales, profitability, market share and production distribution. You will play a key role in strengthening organizational effectiveness and efficiency.

Essential Functions :

• Responsible for developing and supporting the partnership between Colgate and the Distributors at the store and regional level to achieve sales targets
• Conduct negotiations on new product listing, planograms, displays, promotion execution etc at regional and/or store level
• Work with SDM to develop tools, merchandising materials and in-store programs for effective shelf management to induce shoppers to purchase Colgate products at shelf
• Clearly communicate in-store objective and monitor execution of 5P targets: product availability, assortment by store format, shelf pricing (regular and promoted), promotion implementation vs. plan, share of shelf and planogram, POP placement vs. plan
• Monitor compliance of 5P activity execution against established agreement/objectives and tracks interim performance of 5P activities to identify shortfalls. potential upsides against established objectives
• Conduct rigorous pre-evaluation of 5P activities using what-if analysis, and draws upon other team resources as required (eg., input from Financial Services Manager/ Customer Logistics Services Manager)
• Conduct post-evaluation analysis based on activity details and compares results with pre-evaluation analysis, explaining any potential differences
• Managing and monitoring distributors inventories and stock availability
• Performs other duties as assigned with key stakeholders
• Ensure compliance with all CP policies and standards

Required Qualifications :

• A Bachelor’s Degree
• At least 3 years of Distributor Management experience in the FMCG industry
• Fluent in English and Turkish

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities :

• Strong cross-functional collaboration skills to drive executional excellence and business results
• Strong  commercial understanding and analytical skills
• Solid coaching skills, problem-solving oriented with grow mindset
• Strong negotiation skills building trusted partnership

What We Offer :

• International Working Environment
• Shuttle Services (From Anatolian Side of Istanbul and Kuruçeşme on the Izmit side)
• Hybrid Working Schedule
• Comprehensive Medical/Life insurance coverage
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program

Associate Analyst / Analyst – Finance, Accounts Payable

Responsibilities –

• Review, verify & post PO/NPO invoices (3rd Party/Inter-company)
• Check business requests for invoice processing, payment processing
• Ensure the correct rate of Tax (GST/TDS) has been applied.
• Perform vendor account reconciliation, resolve the differences and obtain sign offs
• Generate, analyze and clearing  the GRIR report
• Analyze old vendor balances and clear issues arising thereof
• Review of debit balances in vendor accounts and resolution of the same
• Review of open Purchase Orders and highlight exceptions
• Review, prepare & validate Payment proposal
• Duplicate invoice checking
• Ensure adequate controls over the process are maintained
• Maintain high productivity and accuracy
• Prepare MIS for Business Engagement meetings
• Initiate and participate in continuous improvement projects
• Address level 2 support related supplier/internal customer inquiries
• Review and timely resolution of all audit queries
• Prepare and Maintain SOX documentation
• Prior experience of working on SAP (preferred)
• Proficient knowledge of Google Suite, MS office
• Working knowledge of GST provisions and withholding tax.

Required (Education, Knowledge required, Language skills, etc)

1. Bachelors Degree required
2. Min 2+ years experience

Preferred Requirements

1. SAP
2. Knowledge of GST and withholding tax (TDS) of India
3. Import & Duty invoices processing knowledge for India