Home Care Innovation Execution Excellence Assistant, SE

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Job Number #174964 - Roma, Lazio, Italy

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 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.

The Innovation Execution Excellence Assistant, Home Care, is the operational business partner responsible for driving flawless execution of the Home Care innovation pipeline across the Southern Europe Hub. This role connects portfolio strategy, commercialization, packaging execution, and cross-functional coordination to ensure innovation is delivered accurately and on time across the Hub.

Reporting directly to the Southern Europe Hub Marketing Director, Home & Personal Care, you will serve as the operational execution partner for the Home Care business.

As the central point for coordinating innovation execution, you will translate portfolio strategy into market reality by orchestrating launches, managing packaging and artwork delivery, supporting portfolio simplification, and ensuring go-to-market readiness across the Southern Europe business.

Responsibilities

Launch Orchestration

Serve as the central project manager for all innovation and renovation projects.

Coordinate New Product demand definition and ensure launch on time and complete.

Act as the primary connector between the Hub and the Division/Global Supply Chain, R&D, and Legal teams, translating commercial needs into operational actions.

Creative Asset & Packaging Delivery

Support the end-to-end packaging and artwork workflows.

Ensure regulatory compliance, manage translations, and secure timely release of assets to trade partners.

Portfolio / Simplification Execution

Support the brand portfolio management including SKUs/country pairings.

Support the simplification agenda by identifying low-performing SKUs for delisting to respect the “1 in 1 out” rule ensuring the portfolio remains efficient and profitable.

GTM / Innovation Review Execution

Support Hub Brand Manager to ensure GTM tools are delivered complete and on time for meeting with customers.

Be responsible for the production and delivery of those tools, coordinating countries’ needs, in terms of quantities and timing.

Be the point of contact of the EU Brand team for that topic.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s/Master’s Degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Economics, or related fields.

Minimum of 9-12 months of Innovation/Shopper Marketing experience. A relevant experience as In Store Account is a plus.

Fluent in English.

Required Skills & Competencies

Operational Discipline: Have an Execution Excellence mindset with an obsession for timelines, critical paths, and details.

Agility & Project Leadership: Demonstrate the ability to manage and drive progress on multiple complex projects simultaneously and lead cross-functional teams without direct authority.

Commercial Architecture Mastery: Have an expertise in SKU logic, technical commercialization, and understanding exactly how a product physically reaches the market in multi-market clusters.

Compensation and Benefits

Expected Gross Annual Salary Range: €31,000 – €34,000 gross per year

This position is offered under a temporary employment contract of 9/12 months (via Adecco agency where applicable).

The role is governed by the applicable Italian National Collective Bargaining Agreement (“CCNL”) Chemical Industry, including the relevant job classification and economic provisions applicable to the position.

The initial compensation within the above range will be determined on the basis of objective, transparent and gender-neutral criteria, including professional experience, skills and competencies, qualifications, scope of responsibilities, role requirements, location, applicable CCNL classification and internal company policies.

Benefits

In addition to the rights and benefits provided under applicable law and the relevant CCNL, employees may be eligible, depending on role and company policy, for supplementary benefits, which may include meal vouchers or reimbursement, insurance coverage, company devices, health and welfare programs, and additional role-specific benefits.

Detailed information regarding compensation, benefits, applicable employment terms and job classification will be provided during the recruitment process and, where applicable, in the employment documentation.

Colgate-Palmolive is committed to equal pay for equal work or work of equal value. Recruitment, hiring, compensation and career progression criteria are applied in accordance with objective, transparent, non-discriminatory and gender-neutral principles, in compliance with applicable Italian and EU pay transparency legislation. Candidates will not be asked to disclose their current or previous remuneration, and such information will not be sought, directly or indirectly, during the recruitment or hiring process.

Location: Italy, Rome

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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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