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Grupo Mariposa

Builds food and beverage businesses across markets

Regional Trade Marketing Specialist

Full-Time
No salary listed
Mid
Bachelor's, Master's
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Hybrid
Growth & MarketingMarketing Generalist & Management

About the job

Requirements
  • A Licenciatura in Administration, Commercial Management, Marketing, Industrial Engineering, or a related field is required.
  • Experience in trade marketing and sales is required.
  • Two to four years of experience as a coordinator or specialist in commercial areas is required.
Responsibilities
  • Analyze, develop, and propose data-based actions and plans to strengthen and improve regional trade marketing strategies at the corporate level, aligning them with each country's operations and supporting commercial investment objectives for CAPEX, coolers and returnables, market segmentation, and profitable market execution.
  • Support analysis of corporate trade marketing reports and conduct analyses to improve the area's key indicators.
  • Develop omnichannel, data-driven analysis to identify sales-team challenges and advance priority KPIs; provide recommendations for optimizing communication, distribution, and sales-channel logistics.
  • Analyze strategies for efficient CAPEX investment through collaborative planning that validates stakeholder needs and maximizes market penetration, customer satisfaction, and business performance.
  • Analyze corporate trade marketing strategies in coordination with each country's operations to support each brand or partner's commercial strategy and achieve volume, margin, and market objectives across channels.
  • Apply corporate trade marketing and go-to-market guidelines, policies, and processes to support best-practice execution and alignment across country operations.
  • Measure omnichannel commercial plans across market segments in coordination with local teams to support defined growth, volume, and market-share objectives, using segmentation to direct resources effectively and maximize investment results.
  • Analyze omnichannel commercial strategies to integrate service quality across sales channels and deploy incentives that encourage changes in customer behavior and improve customer experience and brand relationships.
  • Support commercial digital transformation by identifying innovation opportunities that improve efficiency, productivity, and competitiveness.
Desired Qualifications
  • A master's degree is optional.

About the company

Grupo Mariposa runs food and beverage businesses serving consumers across Latin America and other markets. Its portfolio includes cbc, a beverage maker; beliv, a house of proprietary drink brands; and Bia, whose businesses cover coffee, culinary products and sweet snacks. Across the group, companies manufacture and sell branded drinks and packaged foods, manage distribution networks, and operate restaurant concepts. They generate revenue through branded product sales, beverage bottling, wholesale distribution and food-service operations, using channels tailored to retail and dining customers. The group traces its operating roots to 1885, when it began as a beverage maker, and is headquartered in Guatemala City, Guatemala.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

N/A

Founded

1885

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What believers are saying

  • Family support is tailored: Mariposa says Creciendo Juntos combines employee data with expert partnerships to address household needs.
  • Restaurant teams have a shared-system plan: BIA selected SynergySuite in June 2026 for labor, inventory and purchasing across 120-plus restaurants.
  • Graduates cross business boundaries: CBC's Guatemala trainee program assigns projects across departments and countries to prepare recruits for greater responsibility.

What critics are saying

  • Refinancing leaves limited spare cash: September 2026's Fitch forecast put CBC's free cash flow near zero or negative through 2029.
  • The trainee path requires mobility: Beliv's Guatemala opening requires B2 English and availability for two months of foreign travel.
  • Regional exposure affects credit strength: Fitch's September 2026 review flags CBC's smaller scale and weaker Caribbean and South American economies.

What makes Grupo Mariposa unique

  • Bottling rests on a longstanding partnership: Grupo Mariposa became Pepsi's official bottler in Guatemala in 1942.
  • Distribution uses targeted selling tools: CBC says presale and customer-segmentation technology supports more than 2 million points of sale.
  • Acquisitions have an integration team: Mariposa's corporate Apex unit supports acquired businesses; its CEO reported over 40 integrations in 2023.

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