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Grupo Bimbo Announces Expansion of its Global Services with 80 New Positions
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Grupo Bimbo Announces Expansion of its Global Services with 80 New Positions

  • The expansion will take place in the areas of procurement, finance, accounting, IT, and human relations. The company is looking for people with English and French proficiency throughout the remainder of 2022 and the beginning of 2023. 
  • Services Sector of companies attracted by CINDE employs more than 100 000 people in Costa Rica.  
San José, Costa Rica. September 23th, 2022. Grupo Bimbo, world’s leading and largest baking company, announces its growth in Costa Rica with 80 new positions in its Global Service Center and an increase in its services to support its North America Business Units.

With more than 6 years in the country, Bimbo Global Services in Costa Rica will increase its scope in the areas of procurement, IT, and recruitment. These are in addition to the Finance and Accounting support for English and French-speaking Business Units across United States, Canada and United Kingdom.   

“Bimbo Global Services in Costa Rica has positioned itself as a multifunctional hub and extension of the North America Center of Excellence, thanks to the quality of our associates talent,” said Jazmín Alvarado González, Vice President of Bimbo Global Services in Costa Rica. “We continue to add value to our business partners-offer extraordinary and multifunctional support and reinforce our commitment to Grupo Bimbo’s purpose of nourishing a better world”.

Bimbo Global Services has consistently grown its operations in the country thanks to the knowledge and skills of the Costa Rican talent that have effectively supported this expansion. 

According to Foreign Trade Minister Manuel Tovar, “the service sector continues to show expansive growth and dynamism in Costa Rica. BIMBO, the world’s largest baking company, is still opting for Costa Rican talent by announcing 80 new jobs in its Global Shared Services Center – one more step in the evolution of services in our economy. BIMBO serves operations in North America and Europe from Costa Rica with the help of new professionals in technology, economics, and human relations management. Costa Rica is a destination for multifunctional businesses”.

CINDE Director of Investment Advisory Pilar Madrigal explained, “Grupo Bimbo has shown sustained growth and evolution of its operations in Costa Rica, adding more sophistication to its processes; these only reinforce the capacity of our national talent to provide knowledge base services and the opportunities that a company like Bimbo has given to Costa Ricans in terms of formal and quality jobs and, above all, the knowledge transfer. The companies attracted by CINDE in the service sector employ more than 100,000 people and we hope that alongside companies like this we continue to contribute to the country’s progress.”

Grupo Bimbo has 80 open positions in procurement, finance, accounting, IT, and human relations services. The company is seeking staff members with the ability to communicate in English or French to provide services to the markets served by Costa Rica.

“As a service-oriented team, we need proactive, creative, flexible and responsive individuals who are committed to deliver a great customer experience. We appreciate the contributions of all associates and want team players who will help us continuously improve our business and people-first culture, showing extraordinary quality in everything we do. The ability to speak English is required and French is also preferred”, according to Fabiola Chaverri, People Director of Bimbo Global Services in Costa Rica.   

Those interested in applying, please send your resume to workwithus@grupobimbo.com

About Grupo Bimbo
Grupo Bimbo is the leader and largest baking Company in the world and a relevant participant in snacks. Grupo Bimbo has 206 bakeries and other plants and around 1,600 sales centers strategically located in 33 countries throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa.  

Its main product lines include sliced bread, buns & rolls, pastries, cakes, cookies, toast bread, English muffins, bagels, tortillas & flatbreads, salty snacks and confectionery products, among others. Grupo Bimbo produces over 13,000 products and has one of the largest direct distribution networks in the world, with more than 3 million points of sale, more than 54,000 routes and over 137,000 associates.  

Bimbo Global Services has supported its operations successfully for the past six years and looks forward to expanding its services.