HNI Corporation

Senior Learning & Development Trainer

HNI Corporation  •  Muscatine, IA / Chicago, IL (Onsite)  •  3 months ago
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Job Description

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!  We are seeking a  Senior L&D Trainer who understands sales from the inside and enjoys partnering directly with sales teams and dealer organizations.  This is not a traditional L&D role It’s a sales-first, field-facing position for someone who respects the pace and pressure of sales and knows how to translate strategy, product knowledge, and selling skills into measurable performance improvement.  In this role, you’ll design and deliver engaging, high-impact learning experiences that help sellers show up with confidence, credibility, and clarity in front of customers.   What You Will Do:
  • Deliver live, virtual, and in-person sales training, including onboarding, product launches, and skill-based learning
  • Design and facilitate training that supports real sales conversations, dealer capability, and field execution
  • Build and evolve sales curriculum aligned to products, services, and selling strategies
  • Partner closely with Sales, Product, Marketing, and Leadership to align learning with sales priorities and performance metrics
  • Engage experienced, fast-paced sales audiences using strong facilitation and adult learning principles
  • Stay current on industry, competitive, and market dynamics to ensure training relevance
  • Serve as a visible, trusted training partner and brand ambassador within the sales organization
  • Participate in sales meetings, dealer events, and key field initiatives as needed
What You Bring:
  • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Education, Organizational Leadership, or related field required.
  • 3+ years of experience in sales training, sales enablement, or field-based training required.
  • Proven ability to facilitate training for sales professionals (field, dealer, or B2B) preferred.
  • Strong presentation and facilitation skills with frontline and leadership audiences.
  • Experience developing training that supports selling skills, product knowledge, or sales processes.
Strongly Preferred 
  • Prior experience in field sales, B2B sales, or dealer/channel sales
  • Experience training on products, solutions, or consultative selling
  • Comfort traveling to field locations and working directly with sales teams
  • Ability to connect learning outcomes to sales performance and business impact
Role Leveling
  • Trainer: Minimum 1 year of related experience; sales training or enablement exposure preferred.
  • Senior Trainer: Minimum 3 years of progressive training and content development experience, with demonstrated success in a sales or sales enablement environment preferred.
HNI Corporation

About HNI Corporation

At HNI Corporation, we go beyond simply building great desks, chairs, file cabinets and fireplaces. We're focused on building relationships by delivering solutions. With deeply held values that were born with the corporation's founding in 1944, we are a collection of individuals, called members, united by a dedication to integrity, quality, innovation, service and continuous improvement.

HNI Corporation's growth strategy centers on three imperatives: building leading brands, taking care of end users and achieving operational excellence. The corporation's manufacturing and supply chain expertise consistently translates to the highest quality products, provided with the fastest and most dependable turnaround in its industries.

HNI Corporation is a group of companies, each representing a family of leading brands, products and services for the office and home. In HNI Corporation's unique and powerful member-owner environment, every member has an opportunity to share in making the business better. Everyone is rewarded for individual and collective performance through stock ownership, profit sharing and other compensation systems.

Our culture is built around Rapid Continuous Improvement (RCI) and the notion that every member has something unique and valuable to contribute. We have found that when our people share their ideas, and management acts on those ideas, we achieve something powerful: 10,000-plus individuals working actively to make the company better.

Industry
Manufacturing & Production
Company Size
5,001-10,000 employees
Headquarters
Muscatine, Iowa
Year Founded
Unknown
Website
hnicorp.com
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