Commercial Analytics Manager in Woking

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.

Purpose: You will play a critical role in bridging the gap between business questions & connected analytic solutions - delivering speed to insight & driving business growth. Both Commercial & Technical, this role is expected to understand the needs of the business teams and together with expert knowledge of our data & techstack, translate the business requirements into technical blueprints - working with our GIT partners to design & develop end to end (data to user) analytic solutions that are both scalable & futureproofed to support ongoing AI transformation. You will be responsible for designing & execution through to enablement which means they will need strong & flexible communication skills, able to simplify the complex for commercial teams & senior leadership whilst able to converse in technical detail with developers. This role is both strategic & hands on development.

What you will do:

• Stakeholder Collaboration: Build close partnerships with Commercial teams & GIT teams in order to understand with commercial curiosity the business needs & effectively translate/mobilise them into actionable technical requirements.
• Global Partnership: Build strong relationships with the wider Hills/Global Analytics teams in order to leverage best practices & where relevant create solutions that are scalable for Global Hills.
• Technical Strategy & Design: Partner with our GIT team to design scalable end-to-end blueprints for data ingestion, transformation, and visualization.
• Tool Selection: Represent business needs in tool selection, enabling us to leverage the full capabilities of our techstack for optimal user experience.
• Data Visualisation: Inform a Regional Platform Strategy to drive best in class delivery of UX & speed to insight.
• Change Management: Plan for & facilitate change management through transitions from legacy to new solutions by proactively recognising user concerns & helping to mitigate.
• Enablement: Deliver tools, training, materials to local teams that will drive effective adoption of solutions & upskill teams in analytics skills & self service.
• Governance & Scalability: Ensure all data solutions are secure, compliant, and scalable.
• Prototyping: Utilise strong developing skills to deliver agile & effective proofs-of-concept (POCs) to validate architectural approaches.

Who you are:

• Skills: Advanced Expertise in BI tools (e.g., Domo, Sigma, Looker). Cloud Expertise: Strong proficiency in cloud data platforms (Snowflake). Expertise in SQL, ETL/ELT pipelines, data warehousing.
• Architectural Knowledge: Proficiency in designing for performance, scalability, and security.
• Software Development Knowledge: Understanding of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle), Agile methodologies, and DevOps practices.

Competencies:

• Communication: Excellent verbal and written skills to translate complex technical concepts into simple language for non-technical stakeholders.
• Analytical Thinking & Curiosity: Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills to assess business needs and design scalable, optimized, and secure solutions.
• Commercial Awareness: Ability to align technical decisions with business strategy.
• Leadership: Ability to lead technical teams, guide developers, and collaborate with enterprise architects.
• Transformation Mindset: Ability to build a progressive roadmap that pioneers transformation whilst recognising & supporting change management steps needed on the journey to adoption.

Qualifications:

• 5–10 years of hands-on experience in delivering Analytics solutions, with ideally at least 3–5 years delivering commercially focused analytics serving a wide range of use cases.
• Experience working with & blending a variety of data types - Sales, Financial, Supply Chain.
• Proven track record of designing and implementing complex end-to-end analytic outputs.
• Experience in driving Change Management & Solution Adoption.
• Experience in data analytics technology landscapes and big data solutions.
• A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Engineering, or a related field.
• AI/ML Familiarity: Understanding of how to integrate AI/ML models into data architectures.
• Platform-specific data certifications (e.g., GCP, Snowflake).

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, 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.