Job Description
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
ย 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.
ย 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.
ย Brand Ambassadorship: Actively interact with store personnel and consumers to provide in-depth product knowledge and insights, ensuring a positive brand experience.
ย Program Execution: Efficiently execute all sales programs and initiatives, including selling-in promotional programs, ensuring customer compliance, and achieving maximum brand potential.
ย Collaboration: Partner with stakeholders to execute sales and merchandising plans effectively, maintain product inventory levels, minimize out-of-stocks, and uphold company merchandising standards.
ย 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.
ย 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.
ย Utilization of Technology: Utilize company-provided technology for real-time daily reporting, analyze reports, and leverage insights to drive success in-store.
Requirements & Qualifications
ย Bachelors degree or relevant experience. Entry level applicants without experience but willingness to learn will be considered, as will candidates with 0-2 yearsย experience in a sales, merchandizing, marketing, or customer service
ย Must live in the Seattle area - the route will cover Seattle/Bellevue to Edmonds/Bothell.
ย Strong selling skill set and ability to influence store/ownership personnel through fact-based data selling
ย Position requires substantial local travel (~75%) within identified territories.
ย Self-motivated and ability to work independently within a large territory and multitask across a large number of stores
ย 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
ย Must be able to life upwards of 25-50lbs with frequent bending, reaching and kneeling to support with product display building and events
ย Must have a personal vehicle and maintain an excellent driving record, and valid driversย 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
ย Iconic & Innovative Brands: Work with an array of over 250 esteemed products and some of the world's most popular brands.
ย 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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