Senior Category Merchandising Manager - eCommerce and Transactional

HNI Corporation is a global family of brands for the workplace and home dedicated to enhancing the spaces where we live, work, and gather. We pride ourselves on fostering an environment where we make a positive impact on others; upholding our beliefs in integrity, inclusion and belonging.

Your Impact Starts the Day You Do!

What We Need:

We are looking for a Senior Category Merchandising Manager - eCommerce and Transactional to join our team.  This role may be located at our Muscatine, Iowa HQ or our Chicago, Illinois location. This is a hybrid work eligible role.  

The Senior Category Merchandising Manager - eCommerce and Transactional will oversee a dynamic team aligning resources with company goals and driving the success of HNI's retail strategies.  This role will provide strategic leadership throughout the transactional sales cycle, ensuring alignment with market demands, operational requirements, and organizational goals. 

What You Will Do:

• Develop and execute the overall category merchandising strategy for eCommerce and Transactional businesses.
• Build and implement product assortments for online and transactional channels, ensuring alignment with customer demand, seasonal trends, and business goals. 
• Lead the creation of retail pricing and promotional strategies that balance sales growth with margin requirements. 
• Track and analyze category performance, including sales, margin, inventory levels, and customer engagement metrics. 
• Identify gaps in the product assortment and collaborate with supply chain and operations partners to ensure timely availability of in-demand products. 
• Compile and analyze multiple external data sources to understand market trends. 
• Communicate effectively with senior and executive leadership, presenting assortment strategies, performance metrics and inventory optimization. 
• Create forecasting tools and reports to ensure capacity plans are in place to support customer demand. 
• Lead and mentor a team of category and assortment managers, providing guidance on assortment selection promotional strategy, and sales forecasting. 

What You Have:

• Bachelor's degree in Economics, Finance, Business Analytics, Marketing, Business Administration or related field required, Master's degree is preferred.
• At least three years of category, merchandising, finance, or related field experience is required, five or more preferred. 

HNI Corporation (NYSE: HNI) is a manufacturer of workplace furnishings and building products, operating under two segments.  The workplace furnishings segment is a leading global designer and provider of commercial furnishings, going to market under multiple unique brands.  The residential building products segment is the nation’s leading manufacturer and marketer of hearth products.

As one of the larger employers in Iowa, HNI Corporation was recognized in 2018, 2019, and 2020 for the diversity of our Board of Directors and was named in 2020, 2021, and #6 in 2022 as one of America's Most Responsible Companies by Newsweek. 

How we act today protects how we live tomorrow.  Check out our CSR Report here: https://www.hnicorp.com/social-responsibility

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), are not just core beliefs at HNI - they are operational imperatives.  We value each other’s differences in experiences and ideas to solve problems and better serve our customers. Take a look at our DEI goals here: https://www.hnicorp.com/diversity-equity-and-inclusion

We offer Benefits on Day 1, including a new voluntary benefit, Daily Pay! To learn about all the benefits HNI has to offer visit www.HNIbenefits.com.

We also invite you to visit us at www.HNICorp.com to learn more!