The Coca-Cola Company
8 days ago
Retail Execution Specialist - Seattle (BODYARMOR) US – WA – Seattle – Remote
$54k - $63kThe Coca-Cola Company
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United States of AmericaCity/Cities:
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Job Posting End Date:
November 22, 2024Shift:
Job Description Summary:
We are looking for an Innovation Retail Execution Specialist to join our team in the Seattle/Bellevue to Edmonds/Bothell areas. Youll be responsible for amplifying the execution of our loved brands on shelves and displays in-store, focusing on execution, merchandising, and upselling. Your role is crucial in driving sales growth and maximizing the presence of our brands within your assigned territory.
What Youll Do For Us
- Sales Growth and Merchandising: Identify, capitalize on, and negotiate for opportunities to grow the base business, increase sales, optimize display space, and improve productivity while maintaining excellent customer service.
- Creative Display Management: Assist with the installation and maintenance of creative displays aligned with branding initiatives, creating disruption points throughout the store to engage consumers with our brands.
- Brand Ambassadorship: Actively interact with store personnel and consumers to provide in-depth product knowledge and insights, ensuring a positive brand experience.
- Program Execution: Efficiently execute all sales programs and initiatives, including selling-in promotional programs, ensuring customer compliance, and achieving maximum brand potential.
- Collaboration: Partner with stakeholders to execute sales and merchandising plans effectively, maintain product inventory levels, minimize out-of-stocks, and uphold company merchandising standards.
- Customer Insights: Gather and report customer needs, problems, interests, and competitive activities, providing valuable input to internal teams for continuous improvement and increased customer goodwill.
- Territory Account Maintenance: Handle tasks such as checking date codes, managing account adherence to plan-o-grams, replacing decals or tags, and transporting, building and maintaining point of sale advertising and coupons for territory accounts as needed.
- Utilization of Technology: Utilize company-provided technology for real-time daily reporting, analyze reports, and leverage insights to drive success in-store.
Requirements & Qualifications
- Bachelors degree or relevant experience. Entry level applicants without experience but willingness to learn will be considered, as will candidates with 0-2 years’ experience in a sales, merchandizing, marketing, or customer service
- Must live in the Seattle area - the route will cover Seattle/Bellevue to Edmonds/Bothell.
- Strong selling skill set and ability to influence store/ownership personnel through fact-based data selling
- Position requires substantial local travel (~75%) within identified territories.
- Self-motivated and ability to work independently within a large territory and multitask across a large number of stores
- Strong interpersonal and time-management skills, and ability to effectively communicate successes, challenges and opportunities, verbally and in writing, cross-functionally and through all levels of management
- Must be able to life upwards of 25-50lbs with frequent bending, reaching and kneeling to support with product display building and events
- Must have a personal vehicle and maintain an excellent driving record, and valid drivers’ license for use during work hours, and willingness to drive throughout the territory as a primary function of the role, including ability to drive long distances as needed
What Well Do For You
- Iconic & Innovative Brands: Work with an array of over 250 esteemed products and some of the worlds most popular brands.
- Expansive & Diverse Customers: Collaborate with a varied spectrum of customers daily, ranging from retail & grocery stores to theme parks and restaurants.
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Pay Range:
$54,200 - $63,600Base pay offered may vary depending on geography, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position, is offered.
Our Purpose and Growth Culture:
We are taking deliberate action to nurture an inclusive culture that is grounded in our company purpose, to refresh the world and make a difference. We act with a growth mindset, take an expansive approach to what’s possible and believe in continuous learning to improve our business and ourselves. We focus on four key behaviors – curious, empowered, inclusive and agile – and value how we work as much as what we achieve. We believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive after 130+ years. Visit Our Purpose and Vision to learn more about these behaviors and how you can bring them to life in your next role at Coca-Cola.
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