Retail Execution Specialist - Seattle (BODYARMOR)

We are looking for an Innovation Retail Execution Specialist to join our team in the Seattle/Bellevue to Edmonds/Bothell areas. You'll 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 You'll 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 We'll Do For You • Iconic & Innovative Brands: Work with an array of over 250 esteemed products and some of the world's most popular brands. • Expansive & Diverse Customers: Collaborate with a varied spectrum of customers daily, ranging from retail & grocery stores to theme parks and restaurants. Apply Job!