Retail Execution Specialist - Charlotte, NC

About the role

Join Team our team for an Exciting Career with Advanced Hydration! If you’re interested in starting a career where sales, insights, sports and creativity intersect—you’ve come to the right place. Our Advanced Hydration Team is looking for a Retail Execution Specialist (RES) to join our team. Advanced Hydration seeks energetic, passionate, and positive individuals who want to join the biggest underdog fight in the history of consumer-packaged goods. Our Retail Execution Team will bring our OBSESSION with becoming #1 in Advanced Hydration to life in-store.

Responsibilities

• Sales Growth and Merchandising: Identify and capitalize on 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 Coca-Cola Merchandisers and the Advanced Hydration Field team 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.
• Technology Utilization: Utilize company-provided technology for real-time daily reporting, analyze reports, and leverage insights to drive success in-store.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or relevant experience preferred
• Entry-level applicants with a willingness to learn will be considered; candidates with 0-2 years’ experience in sales, merchandising, marketing, or customer service are encouraged to apply
• Must be located in Charlotte, North Carolina or willing to relocate at your own expense
• Strong selling skill set and ability to influence store/ownership personnel through fact-based data selling, problem solving, and creative thinking
• Self-motivated with the ability to work independently within a large territory and multitask across a large number of stores
• Strong interpersonal and time-management skills; ability to effectively communicate successes, challenges, and opportunities, verbally and in writing, cross-functionally and through all levels of management
• Entrepreneurial spirit and enthusiasm for our brands and their purpose
• Must be able to lift upwards of 25-50 lbs with frequent bending, reaching, and kneeling to support product display building and events
• Occasional off-hours/weekend work, as needed
• Must have a personal vehicle, maintain an excellent driving record, and hold a valid driver’s license for use during work hours; willingness to drive throughout the territory is essential, including the ability to drive long distances as needed
• Motor Vehicle Records must satisfy company standards per Driving Policy

Pay

Pay Range: United States of America: 57,800 USD - 69,400 USD

Base 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.

Annual Incentive

Average Annual Incentive Reference Value Percentage: 7.5

Location(s)

• United States of America
• Charlotte, North Carolina

Travel

Travel Required: 51% - 75%

Relocation Provided

No