NA Sr. Manager, Category Strategy

No Relocation Assistance Offered

Job Number #172441 - New York, New York, United States

Colgate‑Palmolive Company is a global consumer products company operating in over 200 countries specializing 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.

As the NA Sr. Manager, Category Strategy – Personal Care, you’ll deliver strategic thought leadership, insights, and solutions to accelerate omni growth for North America Enterprise. You will be the national shopper behavior & category expert for the Customer Development Organization and partner to the Retail Marketing Leads (Sr. BDM). This position will report to the Director of Category Management. You will be responsible for designing, facilitating, and implementing personal care/ home care/ oral care category strategies, developing processes and tools for field sales and retail customers, and influencing corporate strategy for key business areas.

This position is based out of our New York, NY office (Park Avenue) where you are expected to work in‑office 4x week (Monday – Thursday).

• Leverage insights and analytics to articulate category, segment and occasion trends. Strategically plan for new, existing, and exciting assortment. Enable broad strategy with category partners and in partnership with customer teams.
• Provide customer‑specific recommendations based on syntheses of shopper data, insights & point‑of‑sale data.
• Represent Customer and Field Sales teams and serve as their voice to headquarters functions, ensuring operators’ perspectives are incorporated and that the category team’s plans are transparent to the field team.
• Build strong alignment and partnership with the sales team; include account managers and execution leads to identify needs, timing, distribution, execution and support plans. Articulate, produce and sell the annual category strategy.
• Interpret, integrate and communicate shopper behavior, insights & POS data. Communicate fact‑based stories to drive Colgate & category solutions.
• Work cross‑functionally across Colgate‑Palmolive’s Commercial Organization:
  Insights & Analytics, Marketing, Supply Chain, R&D, and Sales.
• Lead by influencing the agenda through collaboration, negotiation and thought leadership, ensuring diverse functions work toward progressive initiatives.
• Seek and implement creative solutions, digging into reasons behind numbers to explain results and guide the team.
• Think beyond single‑channel execution with a strong understanding of translating category strategy across physical and digital environments.

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 8+ years of Consumer, Shopper Insights, Shopper Behavior and/or Category Management experience
• Experience with customer shopper behavior data (Luminate, Dunnhumby, Extra Care, 1010, etc.)
• Experience with household panel data (Numerator, Nielsen Panel, etc.)

• Experience with a syndicated service (Nielsen, IRI) account required
• Experience in consumer product goods
• Experience on cross‑functional teams
• Experience in omnichannel or e‑commerce environments, translating category strategies across physical and digital touchpoints, including exposure to digital shelf, online assortment and cross‑channel execution
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office or Google Suite (Sheets, Slides, Docs)

Salary Range $ – $ USD

Pay is determined based on experience, qualifications, and location. Salaried employees may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses, profit‑sharing, and long‑term incentives for Executive‑level roles.

Benefits:
Salaried employees enjoy a comprehensive package including medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance, paid parental leave, disability coverage, and participation in…