As a leading industrial distributor with operations primarily in North America, Japan and the United Kingdom, We Keep The World Working® by serving more than 4.5 million customers worldwide with products delivered through innovative technology and deep customer relationships. With 2023 sales of $16.5 billion, we're dedicated to providing value for customers, fostering an engaging culture for team members and driving strong financial results.
Our welcoming workplace enables you to learn, grow and make a difference by keeping businesses running and their people safe. As a 2024 Glassdoor Best Place to Work and a Great Place to Work-Certified™ company, we're looking for passionate people to join our team as we continue leading the industry over our next 100 years.
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Compensation
The anticipated base pay compensation range for this position is $85,300.00 to $142,200.00.
Rewards and Benefits:
With benefits starting on day one, our programs provide choice and flexibility to meet team members' individual needs, including:
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans with coverage starting on day one of employment and 6 free sessions each year with a licensed therapist to support your emotional wellbeing.
- 18 paid time off (PTO) days annually for full-time employees (accrual prorated based on employment start date) and 6 company holidays per year.
- 6% company contribution to a 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan each pay period, no employee contribution required.
- Employee discounts, tuition reimbursement, student loan refinancing and free access to financial counseling, education, and tools.
- Maternity support programs, nursing benefits, and up to 14 weeks paid leave for birth parents and up to 4 weeks paid leave for non-birth parents.
For additional information and details regarding Grainger's benefits, please click on the link below:
https://experience100.ehr.com/grainger/Home/Tools-Resources/Key-Resources/New-Hire
The pay range provided above is not a guarantee of compensation. The range reflects the potential base pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual base pay compensation will depend, in part, on factors such as geographic work location and relevant experience and skills.
The anticipated compensation range described above is subject to change and the compensation ultimately paid may be higher or lower than the range described above.
Grainger reserves the right to amend, modify, or terminate its compensation and benefit programs in its sole discretion at any time, consistent with applicable law.
Position Details:
In this role, you will be responsible for planning and merchandising segment catalogs and marketing materials to support targeted customer segment marketing objectives. You will look to grow due to revenue revenue and product category interaction with Grainger customers by effectively building unique merchandising value and business solutions in to targeted customer segments.
You will utilize analytical-based product selection criteria, key business partner insights, and customer review findings to delivery meaningful product strategies. You will be responsible for managing the day-to-day operations, strategy, approvals, and reporting required to meet multiple project deadlines.
You will report to the Catalog Segment Manager.
You Will:
- Develop catalog and marketing product merchandising strategies to ensure products are solving business solutions for customers, while bringing to life unique product sets and messaging across customer segments
- Partner in channel planning process of identifying customer segments to ensure alignment with the integrated marketing plan for Grainger's large and medium businesses.
- Analyze SKU performance using financial metrics and customer target segment goals to develop SKU selection for segment catalogs and marketing collateral to meet or exceed ROAS goals
- Create merchandising pagination to meet best practices in catalog layout using publishing tools
- Merchandise products using data and content to provide customers with easy-to-understand decision making criteria
- Participate in annual marketing planning and resource capabilities assessment to accomplish integrated marketing plan
- Conduct competitor analysis to build merchandising decisions and opportunities
- Align merchandising to support a complete cross-channel customer experience through standard work process.
- Be responsible for digital catalog production and metrics analysis to help drive improvements for merchandising and ROAS
- Develop strategies for implementing enhanced content to provide business solutions for customers
- Lead research and acquisition of product content using images, selection guides, and other enhanced content to help customer product selection
- Lead communication of segment catalog strategies to copywriter and design teams
- Manage projects across business partners (Targeted Marketing, Marketing Strategy, Customer Strategy, Analytics, MSM/Product Managers, G.com).
- Provide proactive process improvement solutions to production issues on a deadline basis
You Have:
- Bachelor's degree in Marketing, Advertising or Communications, Master's degree is a plus
- 7+ years business experience
- Must be able to lead without authority in a cross-functional team atmosphere
- Proactive mindset and demonstrate problem solving and analytical thinking
- Strategic merchandising experience with proven ability to translate customer preferences
- Confidence to handle unplanned situations
- Expertise in catalog direct marketing, knowledge of multi-channel marketing a plus
- Skill to manage simultaneous projects under tight deadlines
- Results driven and detail oriented project management experience
- Comfortable in multi-location environment leveraging electronic workflows
- Excellent written and oral skills, strong proofreader
- Proficiency in word processing with knowledge of desktop publishing
- Knowledge of content database systems a plus
- Knowledge of Workstation and Step products a plus
We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
We are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment that includes both providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the application and hiring process as well as throughout the course of one's employment. With this in mind, should you need a reasonable accommodation during the application and selection process, please advise us so that we can provide appropriate assistance.