Associate Business Development Manager

Associate Business Development Manager

Location:

Rosemont, Illinois, United States

Travel: up to 10% of time

Work arrangement:
Hybrid

The Associate Business Development Manager plays a critical role in enabling the Grocery team to flawlessly execute our business imperatives and drive growth. This highly cross‑functional and collaborative role requires strong communication, interpersonal skills, a solution‑oriented mindset, and creativity.

Key Responsibilities:

• Partner with Grocery Sales Teams and internal cross‑functional partners to create and execute innovative growth strategies.
• Enable key objectives to improve sales results, win market share and drive financial returns on the Grocery team.
• Drive superior in‑market Retail Operations execution via clear, actionable and time‑bound objectives.
• Track and measure results, continuously optimize.
• Support existing national displays and, when needed, create, route and optimize new display vehicles for the team.
• Lead account‑specific digital coupon process and activations for the Grocery team.
• Lead operational planning on Hispanic Strategy Activation Programs.
• Develop multi‑faced Hispanic Strategy execution tactics and ensure implementation.
• Act as a liaison for New Item information for the Grocery Team.
• Coordinate BSBF van visit requests and logistics from Grocery to Retail Marketing.
• Drive incremental seasonal and holiday sales.
• Assist with analytical and administrative tasks across the team as needed.
• Collaborate with internal cross‑functional teams and lead external partners to drive business performance.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree required.
• 3+ years of Consumer Product Goods experience required.
• Microsoft Office or Google Suite proficiency (Sheets, Slides, Docs) required.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience working with a syndicated service (Nielsen, IRI) account preferred.
• Strong business acumen.
• Strong collaboration and cross‑functional working skills.

Compensation and Benefits: Salary Range $86,000.00 – $ USD. Salaried employees may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses, profit‑sharing, and long‑term incentives for Executive‑level roles. Comprehensive benefits package includes medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance, paid parental leave, disability coverage, 401(k) retirement plan with company matching (subject to eligibility), minimum 15 vacation/PTO days, 13 paid holidays, and paid sick leave according to role and location.

Colgate is an equal opportunity employer. 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.