Consumer Business Sales Rep, Costa Rica  

Collaborate with innovative 3Mers around the world  

As Sales rep you will play a key role for 3M Costa Rica to accelerate growth of the portfolios of the 3M Consumer Business. In this role you will be able to develop and execute Joint Business Plans in collaboration with our strategic partners, manage investment to support our strategic priorities, contribute to deliver the expected service level (fill rate) by closely working on demand planning, implement marketing and sales programs, propose and execute tactics to accelerate sell out and deliver the expected performance.    

The impact you will make in this role 

• You will lead the Joint Business Plan with each of our strategic partners  

• You will drive growth through the effective execution of the Joint Business Plan (building blocks definition to deliver growth: new products, seasonal programs, portfolio penetration, market coverage, etc) 

• You will implement our marketing strategy and contribute with local plans to ad growth  

• You will motivate customers and team members to challenge the status quo by proposing innovative solutions to overcome challenges and deliver growth. 

Your Skills and Expertise  

To set you up for success in this role from day one, 3M is looking for candidates who must have the following qualifications:  

• Background: Business Administration, Marketing, Industrial Engineering  

• Experience: +2 years of experience in consumer retail managing distributors and/or retail Key Accounts 

• Leadership: Exhibits leadership with accounts, prospects and peers. Builds collaboration among team members to address relevant customer/industry issues. Provides direction on priorities and develops a shared vision that stimulates needed changes. 

• Mid to advance English as second language 

• Mid to advance Excel, Power BI, Powerpoint  

Additional qualifications that could help you succeed even further in this role include:  

• Project and category management skills and experience are highly appreciated for this role. Finance knowledge could strengthen your negotiations and help you in building business cases, influencing customers and as part of your analysis and decision-making processes. 

Work location:  

• Work Location: This role follows an on-site working model, requiring the employee to work at least four days a week at 3M Costa Rica subsidiary. In sales we dedicate most of the time to fieldwork meeting with commercial partners and customers, visiting points of sales to follow up plan execution, training sales force and merchandisers, implementing points of sales programs.  

• Travel: May include up to 25% of your time, mostly domestic travel (to visit distributors agencies and point of sales in the most important cities of the country) 

Supporting Your Well-being  

3M offers many programs to help you live your best life – both physically and financially. To ensure competitive pay and benefits, 3M regularly benchmarks with other companies that are comparable in size and scope.