Student​/Assistant Sales & Trade Marketing; f​/m​/d

No Relocation Assistance Offered

Job Number #176753 - Therwil, Switzerland, Switzerland

Colgate-Palmolive Company is a global consumer products company operating in over 200 countries specialising 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 Sales & Trade Marketing Assistant you enter a role of up to 24 months in parallel to your Master’s studies, offering experience in operational work streams and driving commercial ownership rather than short-term internship tasks. You will support both colleagues from Key Account Management and Trade / Retail Marketing across different customers and brands. This is the ideal start for you to become part of our team, get to love our brands, understand the daily operations of sales and marketing roles and show your commercial understanding in specific projects.

Our office is just a short tram ride away from the center of Basel, and we offer flexible working hours and flexibility to split them between on-site days for maximum interaction with the team and remote home office options.

Working Hours:

50% Pensum (20.5 hours/week) - with flexibility to balance around exam periods

Target Group:
Enrolled Master’s students

• Key Account Management Support:
  Assist Key Account Managers in day-to-day operations and promotional management for retail accounts in Switzerland.
• Promotional Planning Support:
  Assist in planning, steering copacking process, evaluating, and tracking promotions and customer-specific activations.
• Listing & Listing Preparation:
  Support the team during annual listing negotiations and assortment changes by creating product sell-sheets, master data files, presentation materials and data updates with customers.
• Category & Competitor Tracking:
  Conduct store checks, monitor competitor activities at the omni-point of sale, and gather shopper insight data.
• Customer Presentation Creation:
  Draft account-specific presentations, pitch decks, and performance reviews.
• POS & Trade Activation:
  Support the implementation and coordination of shopper marketing campaigns, POS activations, and secondary displays across retail partners.
• Digital shelf:
  Manage our digital shelf across owned webpages and retailer e-commerce platforms.
• Retail Media:
  Managing end-to-end execution and localization of local retail media campaigns (agency briefing, coordination of asset production, ensuring on-time delivery).

• Enrolled student in Master’s program Business Administration, Economics, Sales, Marketing, or a related field
• Strong interest in FMCG, Retail, Sales, Marketing
• Fluent in German and proficient in English
• Strong MS Office / Google Suite skills (especially spreadsheets, presentations)
• Hands-on, proactive, well organized, reliable and communicative team player with a structured & analytical approach to problem-solving
• Affinity to AI tool

Our journey begins with our people—developing strong talent with diverse backgrounds and perspectives to best serve our consumers around the world and fostering an inclusive environment where everyone feels a true sense of belonging. We are dedicated to ensuring that each individual can be their authentic self, is treated with respect, and is empowered by leadership to contribute meaningfully to our business.

Colgate is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, 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 complete this request form should you require accommodation.