Customer Dev & In-Field Tech Specialist

No Relocation Assistance Offered
Job Number#175467 - Dublin Dublin Ireland

Who We Are

Colgate-Palmolive Company is a global consumer products company operating in over 200 countries specialising 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 valuesCaring Inclusive and Courageouswe foster a culture that inspires our people to achieve common goals. Together lets build a brighter healthier future for all.

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Dublin Ireland

Salary Range Per Annum: 85000 - 94000

We are seeking a highly skilled and data-driven Custmer Development and In-Field Technology Specialist to join our GIT EMEA Customer Development (CDO) team based in this role you will be responsible for defining optimizing and supporting the technology ecosystem that powers our field sales functions across the Colgate Hills and Filorga businesses.

Reporting directly to the Director and Category Lead for CDO GIT EMEA you will act as the strategic bridge between regional business needs our AI-First data initiatives and Global IT teams to design and implement global solutions meeting divisional needs. You will specialize in leveraging Sales Force: Consumer Goods Cloud and Life Sciences Cloud to harmonize field sales data driving advanced retail execution strategies route planning and predictive analytics

Key Responsibilities

• Solution Architecture & Design: Support the central team with design development and maintenance of the overarching architecture for our sales technology stack ensuring seamless data flow between SFA tools category management applications and backend ERP/order management systems.

• Platform Administration: Support technical owner and system administrator of our CRM system managing configurations user profiles security custom objects and workflows.

• Business Analysis & Requirement Engineering: Partner closely with regional Commercial and Sales leadership to translate complex retail execution needs into scalable technical specifications focusing on modernizing in-field capabilities.

• Salesforce Data Cloud Optimization: Serve as the functional and data specialist for Salesforce Data Cloud within EMEA. Design data profiles segments and insights that ingest field data to unlock advanced AI-driven analytics and next-best-action models.

• Retail Execution Strategy: Lead the regional functional strategy for in-field Sales Force Automation (SFA) and category management tools ensuring field teams are empowered with real-time actionable insights.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration & Global Alignment: Act as the key EMEA liaison to the Global Applications (GA) teamsspecifically aligning regional deployments with Global In-Field Execution frameworks.

• Data Harmonization & AI Enablement: Collaborate with data engineering and programming resources to ensure seamless data flows between field applications.

• Ecosystem Evolution & Showcase: Evaluate emerging retail technologies champion best practices within the regional hub and contribute high-impact solutions

• • Education: Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology Business Systems or a related field.

  • Experience: 5 years of experience as an IT Business Analyst specifically supporting Sales Commercial or Go-To-Market (GTM) functions.

  • Salesforce Expertise: Proven hands-on experience administering & configuring Salesforce ecosystems with specific demonstrable expertise in Salesforce Consumer Goods Cloud and Life Sciences Cloud

  • Certifications: Relevant Salesforce Certifications (e.g. Salesforce Administrator Application Architect or specific CG Cloud credentials).

  • Data & Integration: Strong understanding of API integrations middleware (e.g. SAP BTP MuleSoft) and data modeling as it pertains to syncing field applications with centralized order entry and ERP systems.

• • Industry Knowledge: Strong background in the FMCG/CPG industry with a deep understanding of field sales processes retail execution and trade promotions.

  • Communication: Excellent ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical sales stakeholders and vice versa.

  • Agile Methodology: Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment for continuous platform delivery.

  • Mobile Architecture: Experience dealing with offline-first mobile architectures typical in field sales environments.

Benefits:

• Bonus
• Health care packages
• Share Scheme
• 5% Pension Scheme
• Life assurance
• 25 days annual leave (2 are company days)
• Option to buy or sell annual leave days
• Hybrid Working
• Staff Shop
• Access to learning opportunities
• Paid Maternity/Paternity leave & Parents Leave

Our Commitment to Inclusion
Our journey begins with our peopledeveloping 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 colour 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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