Professional Oral Care Consultant (12 months contract)

Company Information

Established in 1806 as a small soap and candle business in New York City, Colgate Palmolive is now a truly global company with products sold in over 200 countries and territories under internationally recognised brand names such as Colgate, Palmolive, Softsoap, Irish Spring, Protex, Sorriso, Kolynos, Elmex, Tom's of Maine, Sanex, Ajax, Axion, Soupline, Haci Sakir, Suavitel, PCA SKIN, EltaMD, Filorga and Hello as well as Hill's Science Diet and Hill's Prescription Diet.

Colgate Palmolive is a leading consumer products company that serves hundreds of millions of consumers worldwide with brands and products across four core businesses - Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care and Pet Nutrition. We are committed to offering products that make lives healthier and more enjoyable, and programmes that enrich communities around the world.

Every day millions of people trust our products to care for themselves and the ones they love. Our goal is to use our technology to create products that will continue to improve the quality of life for our consumers wherever they live.

A career at Colgate Palmolive is an excellent opportunity if you seek a global experience, constant challenge, and development opportunities in an environment that respects work/life effectiveness.

Job Title

Professional Oral Care Consultant (12 months contract)

Travel Required: 50% of time.

Posting Start Date: 18/06/2026

Job Summary

As a Professional Oral Care Consultant, you are responsible for influencing and building long term strategic partnerships with dental professionals to make Colgate oral care products an integral part of their practice, ensuring that Colgate is the brand they personally use, use in their dental office, actively recommend and prescribe most often to their patients.

What you will do

• Develop strong relationships and rapport with dental associations, professionals and dental schools driving usage, recommendation and prescription of Colgate products.
• Understand and analyze channel, category & professional consumer data effectively.
• Understand competitors' strategies, emerging clinical trends, and the evolving needs of dental professionals to identify new opportunities.
• Demand generation for therapeutic products in the territory assigned and achieve key performance indicators and sales of professional products in dental channels.
• Represent Colgate at dental conventions and activities within dental communities, dental schools and associations.
• Drive the strategy and execution for the company's presence at major dental congresses & symposiums.
• Act as a primary resource for in depth oral health and product knowledge and understanding of dental professionals needs to influence and drive strong opportunities behind our brands and business goals.
• Help build recommendations and brand equity through events and best practices.
• Professionals recommendation (such as samples delivery).
• Prepare progress reports for effective coverage & penetration rate to upper management & key stakeholders.
• Measure, analyze and report on the effectiveness of marketing activities.

Required Qualifications, Skills and Experiences

• Educational Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree in Science, Pharmacy, or Health Science, Marketing, Business Administration.
• Experience: 5+ years Medical Detailing and Sales experience (preferably Dental or Oral Care sales, Healthcare sales, Pharmaceutical sales, consumer goods).
• Strategic, analytical thinking ability and a well developed business understanding and commercial sense to identify opportunities and grow the business.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Able to work independently.

Preferred Qualifications

• Office/Google tools proficiency.