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Sourcing Generalist

Who We Are

McMaster-Carr is an innovative e-commerce company helping customers build anything because we offer everything. We’ve thrived for over 120 years thanks to our relentless focus on the customer experience, adaptability, and world-class operations. Our curious, exceptional people are always at the center of our evolution, turning new challenges and disruptive technologies into opportunities to learn new skills and get important work done that makes our customers' lives better.

What You'll Do

We’re growing our team to meet ambitious goals, and we know that great people are the key to our success. As a Sourcing Generalist, you’ll play a critical role in shaping how we identify and evaluate talent. You will build context for relevant talent markets, thoughtfully assess potential, and surface insights that help us make strong hiring decisions.

Your work will help us build high-performing teams by identifying exceptional leaders across a range of industries, companies, and professional backgrounds. You’ll bring curiosity and adaptability to learning new talent markets and candidate archetypes, recognizing meaningful indicators of capability, and making sound hiring decisions. You’ll evaluate candidates’ contributions, growth, progression, and accomplishments with a discerning eye for their potential to succeed here. You’ll also help candidates understand our opportunities and discover what a career here could look like while creating a seamless, meaningful experience centered on their needs.

Your key responsibilities as a Sourcing Generalist will include:

  • Talent Identification & Evaluation - Develop expertise in our pipeline goals and target talent markets. Assess candidate potential by using research to gather credible context, thinking critically, and applying nuanced judgment to make sound sourcing decisions. This work goes beyond resume review.
  • Candidate Engagement & Coordination - Support candidates’ exploration of our opportunities through thoughtful, responsive correspondence that builds understanding and maintains engagement. Coordinate interviews that connect candidates with our leaders and maintain forward momentum, building excitement about pursuing a career here.
  • Insight Development - Turn observations into ideas. Share candidate insights that help hiring managers assess fit and long-term impact.
  • Continuous Learning - Reflect on hiring outcomes and share feedback that helps us refine how we assess and engage talent.

Who You Are

A bachelor's degree is required for this role.

We’re looking for curious, thoughtful professionals who are energized by people and ideas. Ideal candidates demonstrate:

  • Discerning Judgment & Assessment: Demonstrated ability to assess complex and varied backgrounds, synthesize information from multiple sources, and make thoughtful decisions based on capabilities, potential, and long-term success rather than relying solely on conventional indicators.
  • Comfort with Ambiguity & Strategic Adaptability - Navigates uncertainty with confidence, adjusting strategies and evaluation criteria to align with evolving team goals and candidate profiles.
  • Insight-Driven Decision Making - Skilled at turning nuanced observations into actionable insights that inform hiring decisions.
  • Collaborative Relationship Building - Builds trust across teams through clear communication and a shared commitment to thoughtful, high-impact hiring.

Cash Compensation

  • Total cash compensation is generally around $103,000 to $118,000 and includes a profit sharing based on company profitability.

Be Rewarded

We are committed to comprehensive benefits to support employees and their dependents, such as:

  • 100% tuition reimbursement
  • Medical, dental, pharmacy, and vision plans with no monthly premiums
  • Industry leading company-funded retirement accounts
  • Employee resource groups
  • Inclusive, all-gender benefits
  • First-time home buyer assistance
  • Paid parental leave for all new parents
  • Adoption and surrogacy assistance
  • Paid time off for vacation and personal time

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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, or any other legally protected group.

This position is not eligible for work authorization sponsorship by McMaster-Carr.

Data We Collect

We may collect professional, education and employment-related data, and any assessments made throughout the recruiting process, to evaluate candidacy for employment. To communicate with job applicants, we may collect applicant names, contact information, and other personal identifiers, including those outlined in the California customer records statute. Through voluntary disclosure, we may also collect protected classifications under federal or California law (e.g., race, gender, etc.). For additional details about the personal information we collect and its uses, please click here.

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What this application asks

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First Name, Last Name, Email, Phone, Resume/CV

  • Preferred First Name optional
  • Highest Level of Education Completed choose one
  • Name Pronunciation optional
  • Personal Pronouns optional
  • Address Line 1
  • Address Line 2 optional
  • City
  • State choose one
  • Zip Code
  • LinkedIn Profile URL
  • How did you learn about this opportunity? choose one
  • If you selected 'Employee referral' in the previous question, please provide the employee name and your personal or professional connection. optional
  • Have you filed an application at McMaster-Carr in the past? choose one
  • Have you had a phone or in-person conversation with a McMaster-Carr recruiter? choose one
  • Please list any family members or significant others who are currently employed by McMaster-Carr and your relationship with the individual.
  • Are you over 18 years of age and have the ability to furnish proof if hired? choose one
  • Do you have the legal right to work for McMaster-Carr in the United States today? choose one
  • Will you now or in the future require sponsorship from McMaster-Carr for work authorization? For example, if your F-1OPT will expire and you will need H-1B visa sponsorship, or you require TN sponsorship documentation or H-1B transfer for employment, the answer would be “Yes.” choose one
  • Can you provide documentary proof today that you will never require sponsorship from McMaster-Carr for the purpose of establishing work authorization? choose one
  • Have you ever been discharged or forced to resign from employment? Please explain any instances.
  • Legal First Name
  • Legal Last Name
  • Please sign your legal first and last name to certify that you have read and fully understand and accept all terms of the Applicant Statement above.

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