Recruiting Leadership, Strategy, & Operations

Who We Are
McMaster-Carr is a leading e-commerce company that industrial customers have trusted for over 120 years. Our products help them get manufacturing lines back up quickly, keep operations running smoothly, and prototype the next generation of innovative solutions. We earn and keep that trust by offering the right products, making them easy to find, and delivering them fast, so our customers can solve problems with greater speed, precision, and ease.
Our industry-leading e-commerce experience, indispensable product selection, and world-class service bring hundreds of thousands of customers to our site each day. But we're never standing still. Our curious, exceptional people are at the heart of our evolution. They turn new challenges and disruptive technologies into opportunities to refine our operations, expand our offering, and deliver a better experience for every customer.
How You'll Make an Impact & Grow
As a member of our recruiting leadership team, you will shape the future of McMaster-Carr by ensuring exceptional talent fuels our growth. Your work will influence how we build high-performing teams, accelerate innovation, and strengthen our culture of excellence across every function.
Over time, you'll take on meaningful challenges across our recruiting organization-hiring individuals at all levels, enhancing our hiring practices, and developing scalable solutions to complex organizational problems. You will expand your impact by learning quickly, leading initiatives, and bringing out the best in others.

• Range of Roles & Levels: We hire for every part of our business-technology, product development, publishing, customer service, distribution, and finance-because we aim to own as much of the customer experience end-to-end as possible. As a recruiting leader, you'll gain exposure to and influence every type of recruiting that shapes an organization.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner with deeply invested leaders to define hiring goals, align on candidate profiles, and co-create strategies that raise the bar for talent across the company.
• Hiring Decisions: Uphold and champion high standards to build an exceptional workforce. Synthesize evaluation data, facilitate decision-making, and ensure we hire individuals who will elevate our teams.
• Recruiter Development: Coach and develop recruiters to strengthen their skills, expand their impact, and grow as future leaders within the organization.
• Employer Branding & Role Marketing: Develop and execute strategies to market roles effectively, showcasing our unique value proposition to attract outstanding candidates.
• Interview Process Design: Craft and continuously improve structured, inclusive, and effective interview processes. Develop work demonstrations that strengthen evaluation quality and help candidates learn about our work.
• Automation, Analytics & Innovation: Leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) to automate routine tasks, gather information efficiently, identify trends, and strengthen recommendations. Use data and market insights to refine recruiting strategies and improve decision quality.
• Campus & Early Career Partnerships: You may lead early career recruiting teams, working with career services, student organizations, and alumni to attract top talent. Shape outreach and evaluation strategies to build strong pipelines for undergrad and technology teams.

Who You Are
You're energized by shaping direction and rolling up your sleeves to drive results. You thrive in ambiguity, take ownership of meaningful outcomes, and bring others with you-building trust, sharing context, and solving problems collaboratively. You have a passion for influencing organizations by shaping their workforce. You may come from recruiting, consulting, engineering, banking, or somewhere entirely different. What matters most is how you think, how you learn, and how you lead. If you're curious, driven, and eager to take on challenges that matter, McMaster-Carr offers the chance to make an impact and grow as a leader.
Cash Compensation

• Total cash compensation is generally around $180,000 to $345,000 and includes a profit sharing based on company profitability.

Benefits
Growth & Learning

• 100% tuition reimbursement
• Informal and formal mentorship
• Employee resource groups

Health & Wellbeing

• Medical, dental, pharmacy, and vision plans with no monthly premiums
• Inclusive, all-gender benefits

Family & Future

• Paid parental leave for all new parents
• Adoption and surrogacy assistance
• First-time home buyer assistance
• Industry-leading company-funded retirement accounts

Time Off

• Paid vacation and personal time

Equal Opportunity Employer
We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and dedicated to providing employees a workplace with reasonable accommodations and free of discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. At McMaster-Carr, we do not make employment decisions based on age, ethnicity, citizenship status, military status, gender identity and expression, race, religion, disability status, marital status, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected group.
(EOE/M/F/Vet/Disability/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity)
This position is not eligible for work authorization sponsorship by McMaster-Carr