The mission of the Customer Development Department is to win the shopper at the point of purchase; wherever, whenever and however, the shopper chooses to buy.

We plan, manage and implement our business with professional standards; we ensure that the merchandising of our products in the store is attractive, we understand and realize the needs of our customers to build our competitive advantage, and we build partnerships with our consumers.

In a rapidly changing marketplace such as China, Customer Development is an exciting challenge and learning ground to make and create your career with Colgate.

I joined Colgate family four years ago. People are saying that time flies when you're having a good time, and I can't agree more--particularly when I find myself learn and experience new things every day during my work.

Starting from rotation in Field Sales/Marketing/Customer Marketing, and then working as a customer manager in GZ till now acting as a key customer manager in SH, every step in Colgate is memorable and exciting to me. Accompany with those experiences, I can strongly feel the spirit of caring/global teamwork and continuous improvement.

During my rotation period, I had the support from different players which made me feel I was really be cared for. My line manager provided me with basic day-to-day supervision and on-the-job training. My Mentor was an experienced professional in the sales field; I could share my feelings about my work and discuss my career development with her. HR was like glue that holds the players together. During my rotation period, HR did a great job with coordinating the whole process, and I was impressed with how organized Colgate is.

Choosing to be part of Colgate as a fresh graduate was a wise decision I have ever made and I believe the future journey here will be more and more exciting and full of wonder.

I joined Colgate family as a Customer Development Trainee in 2008. During my one-year trainee program, Colgate has provided me on-the-job coaching. I go through four rotations: Customer Development, Marketing, National Customer Marketing and Huangpu Plant.

In my first rotation, I joined Beijing direct trade team and took charge of two customers, which was a great challenge for a fresh graduate. Fortunately, my boss, mentor and colleagues coach me a lot. As a result, I get improvement in doing business very fast. Finishing my rotation above, Marketing and National Customer Marketing is my next stop, which played a pivotal role in developing my skills not only brand management (such as re-launch of Colgate Palmolive Travel Pack), but also communication with different functions (such as project coordinator in Mini-mart POP Tool Kit). In addition, I had an opportunity to work in Huangpu Plant to understand more our products even I am a Customer Development Trainee. In Huangpu Plant, I learned the product production from the professional engineers so that I can tell the difference between products.

Colgate Trainee Program offers me the real multi-functional rotation. It is useful to make me understand the whole picture of Colgate business and broaden my career experience. In this one-year trainee program, I gain plenty of real business skills such as leadership, cross-functional teamwork and project planning. More significantly, I transit from graduate to professional career man with trainee program. Now I am enjoying my Colgate life. Thus, I believe Colgate is the best place for you to seek success!

Marketing plays a pivotal role in providing the strategic leadership to drive innovation and creativity. We aim to meet the challenges of building brands which reach and retain consumers within our proven and successful worldwide brand equities.

Every section of the department – Brand Management, Consumer Insights, Media, Category Innovation Center, plays a crucial and collaborative role in identifying opportunities and deploying strategies and plans to achieve our vision in China.

Our unique 360° marketing plans with innovative media vehicles, creative consumer promotions, and mega trade plans ensure that we maintain our market dominance and continue to grow in China.

Colgate is really a right place for you to start your career and grow your professionalism. I joined Colgate in 2003 as Marketing trainee. With various trainee rotation programs in commercial functions, it built up my business sense and trade understanding which is essential for marketing planning and execution. Beyond on-job training, Colgate also provided different professional in-house training to gradually build up my systematic marketing knowledge & business skills. Besides development in business, Colgate values everyone’s personal career development. With the assessment of my strengthens & weakness, Colgate provides lots of opportunity to enhance my competency and brings me up to next level, such as in-house training, new assignment in new categories, training up people as people managers etc. All of these are very helpful for me to develop my competency and explore my potentials to grow up.

Colgate is a warm family, caring is everywhere. Everyone here is ready to help you. Join us, pursue your career from Colgate!

Time flies, I have completed my trainee rotation in different functions such as customer development, national customer marketing, human resources, finance, manufacturing and now continue my Colgate journey in marketing brand team. Looking back to the past one year, I would say that it was one of the most wonderful periods in my life. Starting from the field sales position in Xi’an, I accumulated the basic sales knowledge and gradually cultivated my sense of business. Then I moved to national customer marketing team, where I moved closer to how national strategies are made and impacting sales value and market share nationally. Besides, I got exposure to category management and shopper marketing, which are the very advanced areas in the industry. Next I received trainings in both human resources and finance team and finally had precious experience in manufacturing team, which is great opportunity for trainees to understand how the whole company is running. Now, I am in marketing brand team, responsible for several projects and monitoring the whole process and results. From this cross-function rotation, I benefit a lot and grow rapidly from fresh graduate to professional marketer. Starting my career in Colgate is a good choice because it is really a great place to learn and grow.

The mission of the Human Resources Department is to deliver business results through driving performance culture, building organization capability and providing leadership depth. We focus on continuous improvement and development of HR initiatives that cater to our people needs, and thus constantly support business and needs in the long run.

Along with our business partners, we are responsible for building organizational capability to deliver business results by aligning people, business processes, and organization effectiveness with our vision and values, and strive to be the best place to work.

If you are up to the challenge of working in an innovative and exciting environment, and constantly adding value to our customers, we invite you to explore you career opportunities with us!

I feel really happy to join Colgate when I graduated from Wuhan University 6 years ago. During these years, I learned a lot from Colgate’s systematic and refined HR process and from my professional colleagues who are always kind to provide help. I have gained HR expertise and developed my leadership through various assignments in different HR aspects: I have worked as HR specialist in recruitment, training & people development, change management area; and as HR generalist supporting a business function. The specialist experience equipped me with solid HR expertise while the generalist exposure provided me valuable insight and experience on how to be a business partner.

In Colgate, I always have challenges as well as excitement; and most of all, I have been able to stretch my potential and innovation in a wide space. With the passage of time, I shoulder more and more responsibilities.

I am so happy to start my career journey at Colgate when I graduated from South China University of Technology one year ago. Now, I have completed my one-year cross functional rotation among HR recruitment, National Customer Marketing, Marketing, Customer Development and Manufacturing. It was so wonderful and valuable experience for a HR trainee to rotate in business functions to learn what the business is and how the business runs.

Thanks to the caring culture of Colgate and manager’s great coaching, I successfully grown up as a professional person by taking care of the Campus Recruitment project, Trainee Development Program, as well as Internship Program.. Then I rotated to business functions where I had chances to get more understanding on how market strategy be worked out and how sales doing business with customers/distributors. The experience on launching a new product, delivering promotion for focus brand and visiting stores to check the 5P execution had made my daily work colorful, also well benefits to my future career development. My rotation end up with one month manufacturing learning which gave me a general map on how product come out and support business.

On top of this cross functional rotation, I strengthened my project management and communication skills, build up good networking within company, furthermore, stepped on a bright career path.

The mission of the Finance Department is to be a valued partner in business sand financial competency.

The finance team is responsible for budget planning, financial reporting and analysis, credit control, accounting, treasury and working capital management, and internal control activities. Through teamwork, we have evolved from managing the financial controls to becoming an effective business partner.

In Colgate, finance people’s core competencies are developed by rotation through the various finance functions, which facilities learning of detailed financial analysis, consultation and management, with the aim of driving the overall business growth.

I joined Colgate in 2007 as a trainee in Finance department. Over the past two years, I have grown rapidly under the help of the trainee program, including orientation, rotation, team building, course training, project assignment and on-job coaching. No matter which position I was in, the whole team would give me strong support on my growth. Therefore, I can adapt well in a short time. Besides, I was very lucky to get a three-month assignment chance to Colgate Sanxiao, that helps broaden my vision and knowledge. These kinds of experiences have strengthened both my functional and leadership competencies. Though I have completed the Trainee Program now, I am planning to continue the functional rotation, which will greatly help enrich my managerial prospect as I expect.

Colgate people are willing to share and listen, and always encourage continuous improvement on the jobs. What impressed me most is even I was a fresh, my thoughts and my ideas would be respected and considered. As a graduate, I felt so fortunate to get my career started at Colgate, as it is a Global Firm that has good management system, which provides me a large stage to develop, also it is a big warm family that has great culture—caring, which makes me enjoy my jobs. The Trainee Program has allowed me to grow from a student to a professional, which I believe will be the same to you. Come on! Join us!

It’s really a good opportunity for a finance trainee to rotate in different functions, not only within finance, but also in commercial functions.

After 9 months’ work in Costing, I joined the mouthwash team for one month, which’s the most fast growing business. Besides some daily work, I took charge of projects from agency bidding to execution. That’s totally different between finance job, but also related by the whole company business cycle. There, I knew about how things going on in market and our strategy. Then I rotated to Sales, where I got an over view on how they execute marketing’s idea and project, how to track 5P execution in stores and a customer manager’s responsibility.

My third station was supply chain, toothpaste tube making area. There, I worked closely with engineers, got basic knowledge about tube making machine and production process.
The last station is National Customer Marketing, category management team, where we help customers to drive business based on the oral care category development. All the report based on data analysis helped me to gain skills on how to analyze sales data, how to get an overview on business.

As far as the whole program completed, I can understand how a business strategy goes on from setting step to execution, how the whole Colgate runs, how finance function provides support to business functions as business partner, and how to communicate with different functions. All these help me to understand the meaning and logic of finance work more deeply, which is a strong motivation for future work.

This brand new trainee rotation program is really enjoyable and meaningful, welcome you join us!

With our mission to be the best truly global consumer products supplier, the Supply Chain has evolved into a very dynamic environment. We manage resources and information in order to produce and deliver the right products, at the right time, to the right customer.

We group a highly effective team of Purchasing, Manufacturing, Customer Service/Logistics, Packaging and Technical to run our process starts with our suppliers all the way through to the consumer. Today, we operate one of the most modern plants around the Colgate world.

You will find that it has a big span and offers many challenging opportunities to grow and develop yourself here. You will also find a high commitment to the society in terms of safety and community development that makes Colgate an ideal place to work.

15 years may be long for a career life, but I feel I just joined the company yesterday: full of energy and ready to go for bigger challenge! Looking back the 15 years with the company, I’m amazed how many challenges that Colgate has ever given to me and how strong I have been becoming under the company’s care.

Starting as a management trainee in Colgate Guangzhou, after going through various supervisory and management positions, I’m now the Manufacturing Director leading a largest global strategic facility in terms of number employee, which is over 6000 people (including agency contractors) in SanXiao. During the 15years, the company has never stopped stretching my capabilities. Challenges are always there down the road. But the company always offers the right training and opportunities for me to take on the challenges. Of course, without doubt, the opportunities can only be there when I really work hard, and work smart.

It’s lucky for me to join Colgate as a 2007 supply chain trainee. The reason why I feel lucky is because being involved in Colgate’s systematic trainee program helps me a lot to develop my personal career.

Before joining my position in Packaging Dept. of Supply Chain, I got a short term orientation to the top modern toothpaste workshop in Colgate for a month, which gave me a good understanding on the production operation, package material specification and the machine
abilities. Also there have many training provided to me to improve my working skills and to broaden my thinking.

What benefit me most are the opportunities for me to lead some challenging projects even though I might not be the experienced one. This made me feel so great as I can learn from practice, work with people from different countries, know the different cultures and share the same joy from our teamwork. Through this Colgate style training and with the kindly helps and sharing from my line manager, sponsor, and colleagues, I feel myself keep growing and being on the way to a career development that fits me. Come and join us, smile with us!