Retail Execution Specialist - Houston, TX

Overview

Retail Execution Specialist for the Advanced Hydration team, serving as the in-store brand ambassador for the company's Advanced Hydration brands within an assigned territory in the Houston area.

What you'll do

• Identify and capitalize on opportunities to grow the base business, increase sales, optimize display space, and improve productivity while maintaining excellent customer service.
• Assist with the installation and maintenance of creative displays aligned with branding initiatives, creating disruption points throughout the store to engage consumers.
• Actively interact with store personnel and consumers to provide in-depth product knowledge and insights, ensuring a positive brand experience.
• Efficiently execute all sales programs and initiatives, including selling-in promotional programs, ensuring customer compliance, and achieving maximum brand potential.
• Partner with Coca-Cola Merchandisers and the Advanced Hydration Field team to execute sales and merchandising plans, maintain product inventory levels, minimize out-of-stocks, and uphold company merchandising standards.
• Gather and report customer needs, problems, interests, and competitive activities, providing input to internal teams for continuous improvement and increased customer goodwill.
• Check date codes, manage account adherence to plan-o-grams, replace decals or tags, and transport, build, and maintain point-of-sale advertising and coupons for territory accounts as needed.
• Utilize company-provided technology for real-time daily reporting, analyze reports, and leverage insights to drive success in-store.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree or relevant experience required.
• Entry-level applicants without experience but willingness to learn will be considered, as will candidates with 0-2 years' experience in sales, merchandising, marketing, or customer service.
• Must be located in the Houston 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 the brands and their purpose.
• Willingness to understand and engage in the activities BODYARMOR and POWERADE consumers are engaged in.
• Must be able to lift upwards of 25-50 lbs with frequent bending, reaching, and kneeling to support product display building and events.
• Must have a personal vehicle, maintain an excellent driving record, and hold a valid driver's license for use during work hours.
• Motor vehicle records must satisfy company standards per the Driving Policy.
• Must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis without requiring company sponsorship.

Nice to have

• No items explicitly marked as preferred beyond the degree-or-experience alternative noted above.

Details

• Location: Atlanta is listed as the city; location line states Houston, TX.
• Travel required: 76% - 100%, including substantial local travel (~75%) within identified territories and ability to drive long distances as needed.
• Occasional off-hours and weekend work, as needed.
• Willingness to drive throughout the territory is essential as a primary function of the role.
• Relocation provided: No.
• Visa sponsorship: Not offered.
• Job posting end date: October 23, 2026.