Sr. Customer Development Manager - Petco
San Diego, CA (Hybrid)
Posted 3 weeks ago
Job Description
Relocation Assistance Offered Within Country
Job Number #175695 - San Diego, California, United States
Who We Are
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.
- Develop and maintain processes and plans to analyze the customer’s business channels (clinics, stores, .com). Evaluates business trends, shopper insights, and findings from post analysis of performed activities, which uses customer consumption and other available data.
- Lead and implement customer meetings to influence support of Hill’s Go-to-Market plans.
- Develop and implement annual strategic plans and initiatives to achieve the commercial goals.
- Establish partnerships with internal and external cross-functional teams. These relationships thrive on mutual trust and integrity to deliver results and execute against strategy and goals.
- Customize shopper programs with Hill’s shopper marketing, using Hill’s brand strategies to drive incremental retail sales.
- Use multiple data sources to create fact-based selling stories, in order to influence key stakeholders and deliver against both Hill’s and Petco's joint business objectives.
- Collaborate with Hill’s Business Development Manager & Retail Marketing team to implement the Hill’s retail environment and brand strategy within investment guidelines.
- Drive forward actions in monthly customer planning meetings to review actuals plus plan-to-go with manager, BDM & Finance.
- Connect the dots - You have a pulse on the big picture to identify areas of opportunity for products and programs, develop Customer specific 6P strategies that incorporate consumer insights, and have an awareness of competitor activity to deliver against your business objectives.
- Bachelor's Degree
- 7+ years Key Account Management, sales roles or related experiences
- Experience working with a syndicated services (Nielsen, IRI, and account specific data sources)
- Microsoft Office or Google Suite proficiency (i.e, Sheets, Slides, Docs)
- Experience working in consumer product goods
- Pursue mutually beneficial solutions with persistence, compromise, and respect
- Adept at finding common ground, identifying vital interests, and understanding the customer’s underlying priorities
- Strong analytical skills to develop 6P recommendations that result in optimized consumption based on consumption data, shopper and consumer insights. Experience leveraging Ai tools desired.
- Handle ambiguity and identify solutions for the customer’s business and 6P plan performance and quickly develop alternative plans as needed
- Work collaboratively across functions, channels, and categories to align priorities, seek problems, optimize resources, and drive effective execution
Compensation and Benefits
Salary Range $124,000.00 - $174,000.00 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 benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance, paid parental leave, disability coverage, and participation in the 401(k) retirement plan with company matching contributions subject to eligibility requirements. Additional benefits include a minimum of 15 vacation/PTO days (hourly employees receive a minimum of 120 hours) and 13 paid holidays (vacation days are prorated based on the employee's hire date within the calendar year). Paid sick leave is adjusted based on role and location in accordance with local laws. Detailed information regarding paid sick leave entitlements will be provided to employees upon hiring and may be subject to adjustments based on changes in legislation or company policies.
Our Commitment to Inclusion
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.
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 complete this request form should you require accommodation.
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Work that matters, fueled by passion for pets!At Hill’s we have a purpose. Every day around the world, we transform the lives of millions of pet families through pioneering innovation, science-led nutrition and the best and brightest people.Did you know that the work we do today was originally inspired by Buddy, a guide dog who was suffering from kidney failure in the late 1930s? Dr. Mark Morris Sr. believed the illness was a result of poor nutrition, so he developed a new pet food to help Buddy live a longer, healthier life. That pet food was the forerunner of Hill’s Prescription Diet® k/d® Canine.Dr. Morris was a caring veterinarian, a visionary for clinical nutrition and the founder of Hill’s Pet Nutrition. We are proud to carry on his tradition of caring and his commitment to transforming lives through the highest-quality pet nutrition available. In fact, our mission is “to help enrich and lengthen the special relationships between people and their pets.”Hill's® Science Diet®, Prescription Diet® and Ideal Balance® brand pet foods are sold in more than 86 countries, with total annual sales of more than $2 billion.We share our core values of Caring, Global Teamwork and Continuous Improvement with our parent company, Colgate-Palmolive. Our support to homeless pets and shelters is a living, breathing example of our values, and we are an industry leader in providing pet food to shelter animals around the world. Our Hill’s Food, Shelter & Love program has donated more than $300 million worth of food to shelters and has helped more than 12 million pets find their forever home!We invite you to learn more about Hill’s Pet Nutrition on our website, www.HillsPet.com or www.Hillsvet.com Follow us: https://www.facebook.com/HillsPet, https://twitter.com/hillspet, https://twitter.com/hillsvet,https://www.pinterest.com/hillspethttps://www.instagram.com/hillspethttps://www.youtube.com/user/OfficialHillsPet
Salaries
Posted range
$124K/yr – $174K/yr
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