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Job Number #171158 - New York, New York, 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.

Role Summary:

The Senior Insights Manager will be primarily responsible for providing critical insights and project leadership to help accelerate the Home and Personal Care (HPC) innovation pipeline, ensuring strategic alignment and strong execution across global teams.

This role involves tackling high-potential challenges-from building clear Innovation Pathways to managing the learning plans of transformational H2/H3 projects with lead divisions.

Success in this role requires leveraging strong foundational insights and cross-functional management skills to synthesize learning plans, clearly articulate Pain Points/Jobs to be Done (JTBD), and deliver actionable recommendations that help shape global strategy.

Responsibilities

+ **Explore** **innovation pathways** **against prioritized need states using insights to validate Jobs To Be Done**

+ **Create a future focus** **, driven by people centricity and consumer obsession, to help anticipate consumer behaviors and trends that will shape the personal and home care categories, and connect them to actionable, strategic innovation opportunities, emerging technologies and benefits.**

+ **Lead the learning plans of Key H2/H3 Innovation Projects:** Develop global learning plan and manage a selection of **transformational H2/H3 innovation projects** in collaboration with lead divisions. This requires strong project management, driving alignment, and providing hands-on insights support throughout the **Innovation Golden Process** from the exploratory phase onward.

+ **Translate Insights into Actionable Strategy:** Clearly define fundamental consumer **Pain Points** and **Jobs to be Done (JTBD)** to directly enable the generation of strong value propositions and creative concepts. Apply **Foresights** techniques to unlock consumer needs that inform better innovation briefs.

+ **Manage Cross-Divisional Learning Plans:** Coordinate and manage diverse **learning plans** across different divisions. Systematically **synthesize** disparate inputs into a cohesive story, delivering actionable, clear **recommendations** for the HPC leadership team.

+ **Champion Insights-Driven Innovation:** Act as an advocate for and role model an **innovation mindset** , helping cross-functional partners apply people centricity leveraging need states effectively to drive the quality and speed of the innovation process.

+ Drive the **evolution and modernization of insights capabilities** for the Home and Personal Care categories, infusing consumer insights with the analysis of real-time data and behavioural analytics (social listening, ratings & reviews, search, consumer feedback, etc.) to enable better and faster decisions on innovation.

+ **Collaborate** with global and divisional marketing/insights, technology, design and packaging teams

Required Qualifications:

+ **7+ years** of work experience in insights roles

+ **Deep People Centricity and Strategic Insights Acumen:** ability to translate a profound understanding of people needs and behaviors into actionable business strategies.

+ **Multi-country** divisional or global experience

Preferred Qualifications:

+ **CPG** experience

+ **Strong analytic skills** - not just reporting directly on data, but making linkages between answers and contextualizing with other inputs to “read between the lines”

+ **Deep understanding of key insights methodologies** (segmentation, concept and product testing etc.) and a clear understanding of the capabilities and limitations of various techniques

+ Experience leading **Division-level** / **Multi-country Insights** , **H2/H3** **Innovation** , or **Foresights** initiatives.

+ **Project Leadership and Cross-Functional Management Skills:** ability to manage complex projects end-to-end and effectively work with diverse, **cross-functional teams** to alignment and delivery.

+ Highly organized, with an ability to juggle multiple projects at any given time without sacrificing quality/nuance.

+ Must be able to work effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

+ Clear demonstration of the ability to build partnerships and collaborate with multiple stakeholders.

+ **Creative, Innovative, Solution-Oriented Mindset :** Genuinely curious and self-motivated; ready to solve stakeholder problems through creative research design and analysis and various people centered approaches and techniques

+ **Synthesis and Strategic Storytelling:** Ability to **connect disparate data points** (connecting the dots), **synthesize** complex information into clear narratives, and deliver compelling, strategic **storytelling** that help influencing executive-level decisions.

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 (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdaxk\_eF4utznQoVHlxmL9jVFJbOkM4Oe5CAdKOg-h9EPdLfg/viewform) should you require accommodation.

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