Grainger

Inside Sales

• Achieve your sales goal by maximizing customer time and your own.
• Manage a book of business and build customer relationships to better understand their needs and remain responsive to changing customer goals.
• Source and prioritize new sales opportunities through outbound phone calls and email.
• Adapt your communication approach by customer to best find solutions and solve their challenges.
• Meet monthly performance metrics and demonstrate perseverance to overcome customer concerns and close sales opportunities.

Inside Sales Associate

General Counsel

• Lead Grainger’s global portfolio of litigation, claims, and disputes, including products/tort, commercial, intellectual property, employment, and regulatory matters.
• Develop and implement litigation strategies that balance legal, financial, and reputational considerations to achieve favorable outcomes.
• Manage and evaluate outside counsel, ensuring performance excellence, effective staffing, and cost-efficient representation.
• Oversee discovery strategy, eDiscovery processes, and document management systems, ensuring compliance and operational effectiveness.
• Provide strategic counsel to senior executives and the Board of Directors on significant litigation matters, emerging risks, trends, and potential business impacts.
• Prepare Board materials and litigation updates, ensuring clarity, accuracy, and alignment with enterprise priorities.
• Serve as a trusted advisor and thought partner on dispute resolution, settlement strategy, and risk mitigation; provide trainings on litigation-related topics.

Assistant General Counsel, Litigation

Data Analyst

• Lead data projects by applying structured processes to set objectives and deliver outcomes on schedule for strategic impact.
• Drive clear communication and secure stakeholder approval by presenting deliverables with minimal leadership guidance.
• Perform quantitative analysis using SQL or Python – find the relevant data, transform it into a useful format, and structure the results in a consumable and actionable manner.
• Identify and act on opportunities for business impact by leveraging data-driven insights and recommendations.
• Optimize processes and implement best practices to enhance team output and efficiency.
• Conduct complex technical research and present findings as a trusted SME to guide stakeholder decisions.
• Build cross-functional partnerships and provide expert analytics advice to align initiatives with business goals.

Senior Data Analyst

Manager

• Negotiate Win-Win Solutions: Develop and implement SRM plans by working directly with supplier leadership of strategic suppliers to assure Grainger's goals are met.
• Use supplier relationships to meet end-to-end needs across the business to improve customer and team member experience and grow revenue.
• Develop relationships with vendor partners, focusing on assortment plans, product cost, pricing, logistics, volume rebates, etc.
• Develop deep supplier relationships with strategic suppliers to include data review and analysis, performance management and development and improvement of end-to-end value, and bring innovation to the business.
• Manage complex supplier relationships: Be the single contact for supplier and internal partners for all supplier related issues.
• Develop the vision, strategy and implementation plan for specific strategic supplies to meet the strategies and long-range requirements to deliver the maximum value for Grainger.
• Build relationships with suppliers in North America. Will work with decision makers within the supplier's organization including Vice Presidents, Presidents and CEOs.
• Lead efforts to help improve supplier relationships.
• Collaborate with merchant and other partners to review impact of inbound management issues on national brand product assortment sourcing strategy and determine action plan.
• Design a price/cost management strategy, which provides market competitive pricing.
• Implement processes to monitor division satisfaction with suppliers and the central sourcing department.
• Support the Supplier Performance Manager in the collection, synthesis and communication and feedback of performance metrics.

Senior Manager, Supplier Management

Recruitment

• Facilitate onsite interviews by managing all logistics and ensuring a professional, seamless experience that reflects the organization’s commitment to candidate care
• Coordinate complex interview panels by aligning multiple calendars, preparing participants, and resolving scheduling conflicts to enable timely and informed hiring decisions
• Implement creative sourcing strategies and build robust talent pipelines by leveraging multiple channels and networking efforts to attract high-quality candidates
• Conduct thorough intake discussions and manage recruitment for high-volume, less complex roles, applying best practices to streamline processes and improve efficiency
• Provide actionable market insights and negotiate competitive offers, balancing candidate expectations with organizational goals to secure top talent and strengthen workforce capability

Talent Acquisition Consultant

Procurement

• Under limited supervision, the Senior Manager, Purchasing is responsible for leading the performance of key strategic suppliers and the Purchasing organization to support company sales, service, and margin objectives.
• This role oversees the Buying team and the Purchasing Supervisor (who leads the Associate Buying team) and partners closely with cross-functional teams to develop and execute supplier strategies.
• The Senior Manager, Purchasing plays a critical role in driving inventory efficiency, supplier performance, and total cost management while ensuring high customer fill rates and strong service levels across the organization.

Senior Manager, Purchasing

Data Scientist

• Collect, organize, and analyze large datasets from internal and external sources to support predictive modeling and strategic recommendations.
• Develop, test, and validate custom models, algorithms, and simulations using R/Python and SQL.
• Research and build machine learning applications involving structured and unstructured data, including regression, classification, and clustering models.
• Create automated processes to test and monitor model performance and ensure data accuracy.
• Develop and own measurement plans in partnership with key stakeholders.
• Present key insights and recommended actions to stakeholders at all levels using effective communication and storytelling.
• Build dynamic data visualizations using Power BI to monitor key business trends and metrics.
• Stay current on advancements in data science methodologies and tools, fostering innovation in analytical processes.
• Collaborate with IT and other departments to enhance data quality through improved cleansing and wrangling processes.

• Maintain/update current expected ship dates, receipts corrections/adjustments.
• Manage requirements documents and large order processing and follow-up for all assigned Vendors.
• Provide credible useful information to allow multiple cross functional teams impacted by Past Due Purchase Orders, GRIR issues and Large Orders to deliver a better service promise.
• OMS is the key contact for Vendors and their assigned Category Purchasing Manager (CPM), Supplier Performance Analyst (SPA), DC inbounds teams, Accounts Payable and Product Manager (PM).
• Work all assigned Vendor issues, including past dues line follow-up, DC receipts and/or proactively work potential past due POs to help vendors resolve short term (transactional) issues in a timely manner.

Purchasing Operations Specialist

• Prepares and analyzes state tax files and schedules by applying established compliance standards to ensure accuracy and partners with Big Four co‑sourcing providers and external auditors to maintain alignment and transparency.
• Monitors and analyzes changes in tax legislation to proactively identify potential impacts on Grainger’s operations and recommends adjustments to maintain compliance and mitigate risk.
• Researches and interprets complex tax issues to provide clear guidance on applying tax law to specific facts and transactions, ensuring informed decision-making.
• Prepares and assists with quarterly and annual state corporate income tax provision reporting under US GAAP and ASC 740 rules to support accurate financial statements and regulatory compliance.
• Evaluates state tax legislation changes to determine income tax accounting implications and communicates findings to stakeholders for timely action.
• Interfaces with cross-functional teams and business partners to gather necessary data and explain potential tax impacts, fostering collaboration and informed planning.
• Supports audit defense, tax planning, and other tax projects by providing documentation and analysis that strengthen compliance and strategic positioning.
• Develops analytics for internal and external partners and leverages technology tools to optimize processes, driving efficiency and accuracy while assessing emerging solutions for continuous improvement.

Senior Income Tax Analyst

Gerente de Cuentas Nacionales

Account Manager

• Understand customer goals and remain alert and responsive to changing customer needs
• Demonstrate knowledge of market data and access to resources to quickly respond to new developments in the customer's business
• Oversee support of managed inventory tasks to guide greater understanding of the customers, increase contacts within the customer group and increase sales results.
• Understand Grainger's Value Proposition by providing solutions to grow profitable sales
• Develop account penetration strategies to include regular business reviews for essential customers