CATMAN Specialist

No Relocation Assistance Offered
# 162144 - Del.Miguel Hidalgo, Mexico City, Mexico

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
 

About The Role

The Category Management Specialist helps to complete Best Practice templates for each stage of process for assigned categories using Nielsen and Consumer Insight studies to understand channel, segment and size trends, consumer needs and purchase decision process, purchase frequency, intensity and transaction size etc, with the objective of helping partner accounts improve management of the category through the supply chain to the point of sale.

Main Responsibilities:

• Analyze partner account data and compare with market to identify category opportunities and develop category strategies and tactics for assortment, pricing, promotion and merchandising at the point of sale
• Ensure RCD Category Management processes implementation across different customer in the Indirect Channel. 
• Manage category partnership process to ensure delivery of high quality, timely analysis and become an indispensable part of the account's business
• Help evaluate and supervise all tests before, during and after implementation and against control stores in order to build understanding of the impact of different tactics at the point of sale and improve CP ́s overall understanding of category demand drivers
• Merchandising/Shelf Management (Use of Planograms Softwares) 
• Finalize generic category planograms based on strategies and tactics developed in Best Practices process
• Perform analysis of Account data and tailor planograms to account needs
• Support Field Sales, Consumer Marketing and Channel requests for merchandising support to help us “win at the shelf”

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
• At least +3 years of experience as CATMAN or similar roles.
• Experience managing Nielsen and/or Kantar
• Google Suite Proficiency 
• Excel Proficiency 
• Intermediate English Level
• Experience managing Space planning and/or Spaceman

*Availability to travel up to 50% of the time

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.

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