Customer Development Intern — Analytics & Retail Growth

Colgate-Palmolive Company; South Nutfield; On-site; GBP 13,000 - 20,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Learning & Development opportunities

Global exposure

Cross-functional exposure

Job summary

Colgate-Palmolive Company invites you to join its Surrey-based internship in the UK sales team. You will learn to analyze retailer data, support customer development, and contribute to cross-functional projects while gaining hands-on experience with Atlas forecasting.

You will collaborate with Marketing, Finance, Customer Service, and Logistics, supporting in-store and online promotions and tracking performance metrics to drive commercial outcomes.

Qualifications

• University degree with a 2:1 classification or above.
• Strong analytical skills with a customer focus and proactive approach to problem-solving.
• Eye for detail and comfortable working with numbers, metrics and spreadsheets; familiarity with Excel / Google Sheets (like pivot tables and VLOOKUPs) and PowerPoint / Slides.
• A positive, proactive, and "can-do" attitude towards achieving objectives and learning new things.
• Cross-Organisational Collaboration and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Nurture Customer Relationships by gathering and looking into sales analytics, sharing observations.
• Connecting with internal and external networks within retail accounts, helping to align on business plans that deliver against sales objectives.
• Customer Support as an accessible point of contact for routine inquiries as you grow into a product expert.
• Data & Analytics by pulling weekly updates from retailer data, websites, price scraping tools, and internal reports.
• Promotional Reviews to analyze past promotions and events for future improvement.
• Market Observations to spot areas for improvement across sales and marketing and collaborate on ideas to close gaps.
• Digital Shelf Optimisation to track key eCommerce measures like out of stock rate, search rankings, content visibility.
• Administrative tasks like invoices, new line forms, promotional nominations, and price files.
• System Champion using Atlas for forecasting and tracking sales progress and spend.
• Meetings participation and Project Support across the team.
• Cross-Functional Exposure with Marketing, Finance, Customer Service, and Logistics.
• Event Support at trade shows and consumer events when needed.

Skills

Analytical skills

Customer focus

Problem solving

Cross-functional collab

Stakeholder management

Attention to detail

Excel

Google Sheets

PowerPoint

VLOOKUPs

Education

Degree 2:1+

Tools

Atlas System

Excel

Google Sheets

PowerPoint

Job description

Colgate-Palmolive Company invites you to join its Surrey-based internship in the UK sales team. You will learn to analyze retailer data, support customer development, and contribute to cross-functional projects while gaining hands-on experience with Atlas forecasting.

You will collaborate with Marketing, Finance, Customer Service, and Logistics, supporting in-store and online promotions and tracking performance metrics to drive commercial outcomes.