Senior Catalog Merchandising Associate

Work Location Type: Remote

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.

Position Details:

Senior Catalog Merchandising Associates are important to Grainger as they help connect customer needs with the right product solutions and category strategy.

You will develop merchandising strategies and production project management for Grainger catalogs. This includes the general catalog, which is Grainger's leading marketing tool. Manage the content (data) shown on print catalog page and online catalog page. Provide analytical sales data to help merchandise pages for optimum sales performance.

You will report to the Catalog Merchandising Manager in the Publishing team.

This role can be based in Lake Forest or Chicago, IL in a hybrid capacity, onsite 3 days a week OR remote for out of state candidates.

You Will:

• Lead the implementation of the print strategy of a product category of up to $600M in annual revenue

• Lead the development of assortment changes, build the customer experience, and coordinate gathering and creation of content

• Develop catalog and product merchandising strategies with internal partner teams to integrated marketing goals, while providing effortless customer experience

• Analyze and provide SKU selection input using financial metrics

• Lead catalog and product strategies for Copywriters, Designers

• Create pagination to meet catalog layout goals using STEP publishing tools

• Build product ads using data and content to provide customers with easy decision-making criteria

• Conduct competitor research to build merchandising decisions

• Conduct cross-channel merchandising research to support revenue goals

• Develop strategies for merchandising enhanced content

• Lead research and acquisition of product content using images, selection guides, and other enhanced content to help customer product selection

You Have:

• 4+ years of professional experience

• You want to accelerate growth and expand market share. You like to promote change, and navigate uncertainty. You like to learn about new products, technologies, industries, and tools.

• You have strong analytic skills to use large amount of data in ways that facilitate decision making.

• Expertise in catalog direct marketing, knowledge of multi-channel marketing a plus

• Basic financial analytics experience

• Project management experience

• Proofreading skills

• Knowledge of desktop publishing

• Knowledge of content database systems (Stibo STEP) or Sharepoint a plus

Rewards and Benefits:

With benefits starting day one, Grainger is committed to your safety, health and wellbeing. Our programs provide choice and flexibility to meet our team members' individual needs. Check out some of the rewards available to you at Grainger

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans

• Generous paid time off (PTO) and 6 company holidays per year

• Automatic 6% 401(k) company contribution each pay period

• Employee discounts, parental leave, 3:1 match on donations and tuition reimbursement

• A comprehensive set of emotional, financial, physical and social wellbeing programs

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.