Senior Insights Manager

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Established in 1806 as a small soap and candle business in New York City, Colgate-Palmolive is now a truly global company with products sold in over 200 countries and territories under such internationally recognized brand names as Colgate, Palmolive, Softsoap, Irish Spring, Protex, Sorriso, Kolynos, elmex, Tom's of Maine, Sanex, Ajax, Axion, Soupline, Haci Sakir, Suavitel, PCA SKIN, EltaMD, Filorga and Hello as well as Hill's Science Diet and Hill's Prescription Diet.

Colgate-Palmolive is a leading consumer products company that serves hundreds of millions of consumers worldwide with brands and products across four core businesses – Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care and Pet Nutrition. We are committed to offering products that make lives healthier and more enjoyable, and programs that enrich communities around the world.

Every day millions of people trust our products to care for themselves and the ones they love. Our goal is to use our technology to create products that will continue to improve the quality of life for our consumers wherever they live.

A career at Colgate-Palmolive is an excellent opportunity if you seek a global experience, constant challenge, and development opportunities in an environment that respects work/life effectiveness.

No Relocation Assistance Offered
# 156565 - Therwil, Switzerland, Switzerland

Who We Are
Colgate-Palmolive Company is a caring, innovative growth company that is reimagining a healthier future for all people, their pets and our planet. Focused on Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care and Pet Nutrition, we sell our products in more than 200 countries and territories under brands such as Colgate, Palmolive, elmex, hello, meridol, Sorriso, Tom’s of Maine, EltaMD, Filorga, Irish Spring, PCA SKIN, Protex, Sanex, Softsoap, Speed Stick, Ajax, Axion, Fabuloso, Soupline and Suavitel, as well as Hill’s Pet Nutrition.

We are recognized for our leadership and innovation in promoting sustainability and community wellbeing, including our achievements in decreasing plastic waste and promoting recyclability, saving water, conserving natural resources and improving children’s oral health.

If you want to work for a company that lives by their values, then give your career a reason to smile and join our global team!

Main Purpose of the role: 

The Senior Insights Manager will have primary accountability for:

• Development of insights to drive health care professional program across Colgate Europe through deep audience understanding 

• Build strong capabilities in health care professional research and linking to measurement and analytics of health care professional activities

• Leveraging health care professional insights in business decision-making and strategy development to achieve business goals of growth and profit

Key Responsibilities:

• Build holistic understanding of health care professionals and influencers for key CP categories including audience identification and consistent approach to advocacy/ experience journeys
• Understand under-unmet health care professional-patient needs today as well as trends and foresight relevant for the audience and guide business growth opportunities that emerge
• Inform and guide creation of content for health care professionals as part of integrated brand experience as well as relevant media choice-channels
• Understand CP equity among relevant audience both as “brand” and “customer”
• Build measurement framework for health care professional activities to understand performance and guide investment choices
• Ensure health care professional and consumer understanding is linked to inform best possible strategic choices
• Support leveraging of health care professionals across categories

Critical Experience:

• At least 10 years' experience in Insights and Analytics gained either client side or agency side including international roles

• Direct experience in Consumer Health, Pharma or “Professional-centric” FMCG insights and analytics roles

• A deep understanding of key insights methodologies (Quant-Qual, Journeys, Digital) and experience in Measurement (Pharmacy Tracking)  and analytics methodologies (econometrics...) and a clear understanding of the capabilities of various techniques

• Demonstrated ability to build successful and effective partnerships, and influence stakeholders and decision making at all levels of a global organization

Skills/competencies:

• Demonstrated ability of business value creation through application of Insights and Analytics
• Demonstrated ability to tell insightful stories and identify opportunities for growth through synthesis of multiple data points and insight
• Genuinely curious and self-motivated; ready to solve stakeholder problems through creative research and analysis
• Outstanding communication skills and presence, both in large meetings and day-to-day consults with internal clients and senior executives 
• Highly organized in a highly complex environment
• Ability to work with people across functions and organizational levels, and also remotely

The Person:

• Caring, inclusive and courageous

• A self-starter - action and results oriented 

• Will exhibit excellent judgment and have relentlessly high standards

Why Join? 

Often referred to as “the biggest small company or smallest big company”, this anecdote gives an insight into Colgate Palmolive’s collaborative and supportive culture which is reflected in its outstanding record for talent retention.   The timing to join Colgate is particularly exciting as it is at a critical point in its transformation of merging the analytics and insights functions. There is scope for inventiveness and a real chance to stand for what one believes in - as well as exceptional long term career opportunities at a regional and global level. The location of Colgate’s HQ in Basel, Switzerland offers a healthy, outdoor lifestyle with easy access to the rest of central Europe

Our Commitment to Sustainability
With the Colgate brand in more homes than any other, we are presented with great opportunities and new challenges as we work to integrate sustainability into all aspects of our business and create positive social impact. We are determined to position ourselves for further growth as we act on our 2025 Sustainability & Social Impact Strategy.

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 contact Write an email with the subject "Accommodation Request" should you require accommodation.

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