Director, Early Career Program

4 weeks ago

Lake Forest, California, United States Grainger Businesses Full time

Work Location Type: Hybrid

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-CertifiedTM company, we're looking for passionate people to join our team as we continue leading the industry over our next 100 years.

Position Details:

You will be responsible for providing strategic direction and vision for the following three workstreams and leading the teams that execute the work.

  • Building and implementing our early career strategy and all campus recruiting. Design the vision in alignment with our talent needs for today and the future, ensuring that we are building diverse early career pipelines for hiring and development programs.
  • Designing and executing on our rotational program for early-in-career talent throughout our business. You will design the overall program, milestones, performance management, and rotations.
  • Leading a team of Sourcing professionals that support our enterprise on critical roles and pipelining for new opportunities.

All three workstreams require strong stakeholder management. You will partner closely with the broader Talent Acquisition team as well as various levels of leadership up to the C suite and leadership at partner universities.

You will report to the Sr Director of Talent Acquisition and will lead 2 managers and an overall team of 15-20 to execute on the work aligned to this role.

You Will:
  • Build a comprehensive enterprise-wide university relations strategy that supports the talent needs of Grainger as well as industry best practices.
  • Create a stakeholder management strategy for our executive leadership teams and other key stakeholders.
  • Partner across Talent Acquisition and our business functions to build branding within partner schools that ties to our overall strategy.
  • Build cross functional recruitment teams who will facilitate hiring for interns and early career roles and manage intern / rotational programs.
  • Monitor campus recruiting activity and results, providing frequent executive summaries and status updates.
  • Design, manage and execute the facilitation of new and existing development programs.
  • Leverage external best in class practices, recruitment strategies and professional organizations to benchmark and manage our impact.


You Have:
  • Bachelor's degree and 8+ years recruiting experience, including early-career / campus recruitment program leadership.
  • Previous experience leading a team.
  • Ability to travel 20% during fall and spring recruiting seasons within the United States.
  • Ability to collaborate and influence with a wide variety of stakeholders at all levels of the organization, including senior leadership.
  • Effective presentation skills in both group and one-on-one situations.
  • Ability to leverage reporting metrics to identify trends and assess the overall performance of our programs.

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Rewards and Benefits:

With benefits starting day one, our programs provide choice and flexibility to meet team members' individual needs. Check out the highlights below and review all our benefits at

  • Medical, dental, vision, life, and pet insurance plans and 6 free sessions each year with a licensed therapist to support your emotional wellbeing
  • Paid time off (PTO) and 6 company holidays per year
  • 6% company contribution to a 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan each pay period, no match 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

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.

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