Manager, Category Strategy & Analytics - HPC

No Relocation Assistance Offered Job Number #176284 - Taguig, National Capital Region (NCR), Philippines 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/Purpose: As the E2E Category Business Thought Partner for Personal Care, Home Care, and Skin/Baby/Home (PCP/SBH), you will serve as the dedicated single point of contact integrating consumer insights, innovation foresights, and commercial analytics to drive category growth. Anchored in a human-, innovation-, and consumer-insight-skewed profile, you will transform consumer truths, emotional brand drivers, and market realities into clear strategic direction for commercial teams. Additionally, you will lead the Philippines Human-Centric Insights & Foresights Capability Pod, pioneering predictive trend tools, Brand Notebooks, AI screening, digital twin personas, and AI-powered consumer research frameworks to sharpen brand building and accelerate innovation timelines across the enterprise. Key Responsibilities: Category Business Thought Partnership : Lead end-to-end strategic planning enablement for Budget Reviews (BR) and Mid-Year Reviews (MYR), monthly commercial cadence meetings, among others, for the assigned category, integrating consumer research, shopper insights, and commercial data into growth drivers. Capability Pod Leadership — Human Insights : Architect and scale frontier insight capabilities across the enterprise, including AI-enabled consumer personas, Brand Notebooks, AI screening, and trend foresighting tools. End-to-End Category Research & Innovation Analytics: Own the full research agenda for the assigned category—from white-space territory exploration, consumer immersions, and ideation to concept pre-testing, pack/product validation (e.g., HUT/BPA), marketing mix modelling, and brand equity tracking. Commercial Analytics & 5P Diagnostics Integration: Synthesize syndicated retail audit data (Nielsen/NIQ), household panel insights (Kantar), and internal sales metrics to ensure consumer foresights directly inform RGM, pricing, promo levels (Smart PnP), and omnichannel execution. Strategic Partnering & Thought Leadership : Champion T-shaped analytics across workstreams, acting as an indispensable thought partner to the Management Team, Category Heads, Customer Development Leads, and the Extended Leadership Team. Qualifications: Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Psychology,…