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Retail Execution Specialist - Aurora, IL

Coca-Cola Refreshments

Aurora, IL

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JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Advertising, Analysis Skills, Brand Marketing (Branding), Business Growth, Communication Skills, Competitive Research, Consumer Branding, Consumer Packaged Goods, Continuous Improvement, Cross-Functional, Customer Support/Service, Customer/Client Research, Driver's License, Entrepreneurship, Geography, Interpersonal Skills, Inventory Levels, Inventory Management, Maintain Compliance, Marketing, Merchandising, Multitasking, Power Amplifier, Problem Solving Skills, Process Improvement, Product Support, Productivity Management, Promotional Programs, Retail, Revenue Growth, Sales, Sales Promotions, Sports, Time Management, Up-Selling, Vehicle Driving, Willing to Travel
LOCATION
Aurora, IL
POSTED
1 day ago
Job Description Summary:

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.

As a Retail Execution Specialist (RES), you will be the ultimate ambassador for our Advanced Hydration Brands. You'll be responsible for amplifying the execution of our fan and athlete-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.

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 Aurora, IL area 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


The Coca-Cola Company will not offer sponsorship for employment status (including, but not limited to, H1-B visa status and other employment-based nonimmigrant visas) for this position. Accordingly, all applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis and must not require The Coca-Cola Company's sponsorship to continue to work legally in the United States.

Skills:

Pay Range:
United States of America: 45,000 USD - 52,000 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 Reference Value Percentage:
7.5

Annual Incentive reference value is a market-based competitive value for your role. It falls in the middle of the range for your role, indicating performance at target.

Location(s):
United States of America

City/Cities:
Chicago

Travel Required:
76% - 100%

Relocation Provided:
No

Job Posting End Date:
May 30, 2026

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.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. When we collect your personal information as part of a job application or offer of employment, we do so in accordance with industry standards and best practices and in compliance with applicable privacy laws.

About the Company

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Coca-Cola Refreshments

We Make, Market and Distribute Happiness!

How do you make "happiness"?

It all depends on how you define it. To us at Coca-Cola Refreshments, it's those everyday moments when people reach for one of our products, open it, take a drink and say, "Ahhh."

That may seem like a small goal. But consider that every second of every day, thousands of Coca-Cola Refreshments teams are doing just that. So the challenge we face – to make, market and distribute great Coca-Cola products throughout North America – is a big one.

It began with the first Coca-Cola beverage ever poured in Atlanta in 1886. That year, about nine drinks a day were sold. We continue to carry on that promise and, today, the worldwide Coca-Cola system sells 1.8 billion servings a day.

Our quest continues with the commitment to make sure your favorite Coca-Cola brand of sparkling beverages, juices and juice drinks, water and water beverages, sports drinks, teas and energy drinks is always available in North America where you want it, when you want it.

If you share our passion for helping people enjoy life a little more each day, and you are excited by the opportunity to learn and grow while you do it, you should explore a career with Coca-Cola Refreshments now. Then, when people ask what you do, you can say that you help make, market and distribute happiness!

COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Consumer Packaged Goods Manufacturing
FOUNDED
1886
WEBSITE
http://www.enjoycareers.com

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