Category Manager
HNI Corporation is a global family of industry-leading brands for the workplace and home dedicated to enhancing the spaces where people live, work, and gather. We pride ourselves on providing our members with promising career opportunities, excellent benefits, and a work environment where we all strive to make a positive impact on others, upholding our beliefs in integrity, inclusion and belonging.
What We Need:
We are looking for a Category Manager to join our Strategic Procurement team in Muscatine, Iowa!
While we would greatly appreciate your presence here in Iowa, we are open to remote or hybrid work arrangements.
This is a highly visible role within HNI's Supply Chain organization. It requires substantial engagement and partnership with key members of the executive leadership team as well as the various operational and business unit teams while building connections with the front line. This position focuses on developing and maintaining strong supplier relationships as well as providing broad based perspective on specific categories, sharing knowledge about marketplace environments, industry trends and supplier capabilities. It also requires understanding of internal factors such as material/design specifications, quality performance and service level requirements. This position contributes significantly to the company's ability to meet key strategic goals and financial targets. It requires an understanding of the market forces, cost drivers and technological trends, in specific Direct Material categories, that affect short- and long-term material forecasts and strategies.
This, along with strengths in relationship building and strategic vision, these positions offer great opportunity for continuous challenge, growth, and long-term fulfillment!
What You Will Do:
- Implement planning tools and processes to capture and mitigate supplier constraints to demands.
- Negotiate contracts, pricing, and disputes for the benefit of HNI.
- Evaluate operational and financial risk inherent in potential or existing supply chains to predict any level of detriment to HNI goals or end user expectations.
- Guide the analysis of spend for specific categories.
- Identify and introduce new materials, supply chain capabilities, technologies, and processes to meet current and future interests of HNI products and services.
- Minimize supply chain disruption and execute projects on time, to budget, and without HNI or customer impact.
- Drive continuous improvement in the category through price, design, structure, and process.
What You Have:
- 7-10 years of experience in supply chain, with focus in strategic procurement and supplier relations, preferably in manufacturing and operations.
- Bachelor's Degree required, preferably in Supply Chain or Logistics, Business or Engineering
- Superior communication and negotiation skills.
- Ability to perform productively in a fast paced and visible environment.
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 and 2021 as one of America's Most Responsible Companies by Newsweek.
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