About the job
Job Description – Trade Category Senior
Location: Costa Rica
Work arrangement: Remote (with occasional in-person team meetings)
Contract type: Full-time
Salary: 1,200,000 colones
Job Objective
Responsible for leading strategic category analysis, transforming market data, commercial performance, and point-of-sale execution into actionable insights that drive profitable business growth. You will act as a strategic partner to the commercial, marketing, trade marketing, and supply chain teams to optimize the portfolio, identify growth opportunities, and defend market share.
Position Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Industrial Engineering, Economics, Statistics, or a related field.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in Category Management, Trade Marketing, Business Intelligence, Commercial Planning, or similar analytical roles.
- Proven experience in market, sales, portfolio, and inventory analysis.
- Advanced Excel skills (pivot tables, Power Query, database analysis, and data modeling).
- Experience with Power BI, Tableau, or other data visualization tools is a plus.
- Experience using market intelligence tools such as GfK or similar.
- Ability to interpret large volumes of information and translate them into actionable recommendations.
Key Competencies
- Analytical and strategic thinking
- Orientation toward business results
- Commercial acumen
- Influence and communication skills
- Proactivity and autonomy
- Planning and organization
- Data-driven decision making
Success Indicators
- Growth and profitability of assigned categories
- Accuracy and quality of generated analyses and insights
- Effectiveness of implemented action plans
- Portfolio optimization and reduction of slow-moving inventory
- Availability and visualization of key indicators for decision-making