Customer Development Intern (Surrey, ENG, GB)

No Relocation Assistance Offered Job Number #164737 - Surrey, England, United Kingdom 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.

Location: Woking, UK

Reporting to: Sr. Manager Customer Development eComm

Duration: 12 months

Why Work For Hill’s Pet Nutrition:

The learning & development opportunities: You will refine your commercial mind-set and continue to learn new skills working closely with a cross-functional team giving you exposure to all local market departments.

The challenge & variety: You will operate in a fast paced operational environment, directly impacting the day-to-day performance of the business, with personal accountability for your business.

The global experience: You will have the opportunity to work with global brands, participate in global strategies with potential to develop your career internationally.

The Colgate Values: Caring, global teamwork and continuous improvement are integral to how we operate every day

Job Purpose

This is an Internship position providing you with experience working in a fast-paced, industry leading pet-food manufacturer. In the international role you will be a key player supporting the zooplus Customer Development Team with their responsibilities to deliver Sales and Market and meet all their financial critical metrics. You will be one of the team to execute our agreed plans, analyse the results and strengthen the relationship with our customers.

Main Responsibilities

Support the Customer Development team in their Day-to-Day work to implement the agreed joint business plan.

Provide key analysis and insights from sales analytics.

Support with return on investment analysis for promotions run with Retailers and provide future recommendations.

Identify gaps across the Digital Shelf Performance and make recommendations to close them.

Audit our own & competition activation across all ecommerce platforms to help identify gaps and opportunities.

Assist with Account Admin e.g. Invoices, Data manipulation, Promotional Nominations, Price Files, briefing media assets etc.

Attend internal meetings within our team and with the country teams as and when required.

Attend (online) customer meetings as and when required.

Working cross functionally with other departments like Finance, Digital marketing and Logistics

Personal Attributes

Excellent communication to lead and handle ad hoc projects across the team

Strong organizational skills

Strong analytical skills; Proficient in Excel (Pivot Tables, VLookups etc.,), competence with Google Suite tools is a plus.

Achieve results through appropriate setting of priorities, planning and organization

Ability to work as part of team as well as on own initiative

Effective interpersonal style, including the ability to communicate optimally with both internal & external agencies / customers

Self-motivated, self-reliant, proactive with a “can do” attitude

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Achieving our purpose starts with our people — ensuring our workforce represents the people and communities we serve —and creating an environment where our people feel they belong; where we can be our authentic selves, feel treated with respect and have the support of leadership to impact the business in a meaningful way. 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