HNI Corporation

Workplace Advisory Director

HNI Corporation  •  Muscatine, IA (Onsite)  •  2 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! What We Need: We are looking for a Workplace Advisory Director to join our HNI Workplace Furnishings team.  The Workplace Advisory Director is responsible for leading the expansion of the Workplace Advisory program and member capabilities by serving as a workplace subject matter expert, contributing original insights, and mentoring others to develop new competencies and thought leadership.  This role will monitor industry trends to shape the program’s strategic direction, content creation, influence brand-led conversations, and engage stakeholders.   What You Will Do: 
  • Lead the development and continuous improvement of workplace capabilities, content, tools, and collateral to support advisory activities, client engagements, presentations, and internal teams, expanding WPF brand’s thought leadership and market impact.
  • Monitor industry trends, competitor evolution, and secular influences to inform solutions, advisory strategies, and content development; translate insights into strategic perspectives, annual content planning, and brand-leading conversations for WPF brands.
  • Build and sustain strong relationships with Architects and Designers, develop strategies and points of view that leverage insights to win attention, influence engagement, and inspire advocacy for the aligned brand.
  • Organize and align team efforts around Sales’ top opportunities and local market planning strategies to ensure coordinated, effective in-market engagement and execution.
  • Partner with Sales, Technical Sales, and Strategic Design teams to provide consultative workplace advisory support for major project opportunities and strategic accounts, including needs analysis, solution development, change management, and decision support to drive wins and retention.
  • Facilitate the ongoing development of workplace advising services and strategies that support customers and influencers with ongoing insights, learning, and new processes or tools.
  • Actively participate in industry activities and speaking opportunities to build credibility as a subject-matter expert, cultivate a network of field contacts and specialists, and enhance brand visibility and leadership in workplace strategy.
  • Supervise, coordinate, provide leadership and review work of assigned members. Conduct performance evaluations and recommend merit increases, promotions, transfers, corrective actions, and other personnel actions.  Interview and recommend candidates for employment.  Drive member engagement.  
  • Participate in activities as appropriate to ensure the success of the organization.
What You Have: 
  • Bachelor's degree in business administration, design, architecture, or related field required.
  • At least 8 years of consultative, decision-making experience in Workplace Strategy required; 10 years preferred.
  • Previous experience in contract furniture and strong understanding of the sales process required. 
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    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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