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Our products are trusted in more households than any other brand in the world, making us a household name!\nJoin 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.\n\nCategory Development Manager - Sweden\nSubsidiary: Sweden\nLocation: Danderyd, Stockholm\nReporting to: General Manager, Sweden/Norway\nSalary Range : 553500 - 615000\nMaternity Leave Cover from March 22, 2027 to April 2028\nIn today’s dynamic retail environment, it is an exciting time to be part of the commercial team at Colgate-Palmolive. As part of the Retail Marketing team, you will create & deliver compelling stories for customers that provide insight into how shopper behaviours are influencing our categories. You will be recognised as the impartial category expert, a “growth consultant” for our customers, responsible for highlighting opportunities, developing and delivering initiatives that will drive category & brand growth & differentiate Colgate-Palmolive from its competition.\nYou will be an important link between our Retail Marketing and CDM (KAM) teams, working with the local Swedish team as well as category experts in other markets to learn and share opportunities.\nWhat the job is about\nYou have an analytical mindset and can connect the dots. By using multiple data sources, trends, business strategies & a little bit of instinct, you develop category recommendations that drive growth for us and the customers.\nYou are an effective storyteller - you can interpret data & insights, and effectively turn them into fact-based stories that will drive discussion & action. You can effectively deliver these stores both internally and externally.\nYou are a shopper champion - you put the shopper at the heart of everything you do and maximise category sales potential through a shopper-centric approach.\nYou build & develop independent relationships with customers, establishing Colgate-Palmolive as the go to key partner for objective category & shopper insights. \nYouanalyse planograms and assortment by sales banner and provide recommendations in each of the range reviews to customers.\nYou are the local RGM (revenue growth management) champion, driving all RGM levers to find profitable growth.\nYou are responsible for updating and improving the monthly standard reports (Nielsen) to facilitate easy access and understanding of category dynamics for the Swedish team.\nYou are responsible for the promo evaluation process, where we analyse and learn from our past promotions to finetune and optimise future promo investments.\nYou are responsible for developing cross-category in-store promotions for the winter and summer sales cycles, in collaboration with the retail marketing managers.\nWhat you need to have to succeed\nA strong competency in Nielsen (NiQ), our primart analytical data tool, and in Excel / Google sheets\nA basic knowledge of Swedish FMCG retailers\nA strong commercial understanding\nExperience from customer or category management, ideally from the FMCG industry\nAcademic degree\nProficiency in writing and speaking Swedish & English\nOur Commitment to Inclusion\nOur 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. 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