Sr. Manager, Catman & Shopper Insights - Value Discount, Club & Home Improvement

As the Sr. Manager, Catman & Shopper Insights for the Value Discount, Club, and Home Improvement channels, you will lead a team of Category Managers who are focused on building and sharing compelling stories with customers that provide insight to how shopper behaviors are influencing our categories. Your team will serve as the shopper behavior expert by delivering insight-based engaging category presentations and highlighting opportunities. You will spearhead shopper insights for the Value Discount and Club channels and establish a proven customer relationship based on building thought leadership. You and your team will also collaborate both with your internal and external partners to provide best in class understanding of the categories in which we compete.

This role can be based out of either our Rosemont, IL or New York, NY office.

Responsibilities:

• You’re a great mentor and leader - You are passionate about developing others You’re a teacher who loves to help others achieve their goals.
  

• You’re Passionate about the Shopper - You thrive on putting the shoppers needs at the forefront of all that you do. You have experience using customer specific shopper behavior data and understand how to turn insights into actionable recommendations.

• You're a storyteller- You have the strong ability to interpret, integrate and communicate shopper behavior, insights & data. You can successfully tell fact-based stories to drive Colgate & category solutions.

• You love to integrate multiple data sources - You have a track record of providing customer specific recommendations based on your ability to synthesize customer shopper data, insights & point of sale data.

• You collaborate- You build key partnerships as a consultant to the customer that thrive on mutual trust and integrity in working relationships. Additionally, you work cross-functionally across the Colgate Palmolive organization.

• You are a leader- You take the lead by influencing the agenda through collaboration, negotiation and thought leadership.

• You are curious- You are constantly looking for opportunities to improve and seek creative solutions. You dig into the reason behind the numbers, are able to look at the results and find out the reasons for what is driving those results and guide the team accordingly.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree

• 6+ years of Consumer, Shopper Insights, Shopper Behavior and/or Category Management Experience

• Experience leading a team or mentoring others in category management

• Experience working with customer Shopper Behavior Data (Luminate, Dunnhumby, ExtraCare, 1010, etc.)

• Experience working with Household Panel data (Numerator, Nielsen Panel, etc.)

• Experience working with a syndicated service (Nielsen, IRI) account

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in consumer product goods

• Microsoft Office or Google Suite proficiency (i.e, Sheets, Slides, Docs)