Associate Recruiter - Supply Chain

Launch Your Recruiting Career in Supply Chain & Logistics

Ready to turn your communication skills, curiosity, judgment, and drive into a rewarding career?

DRI) is hiring a driven professional to join our Supply Chain & Logistics executive search practice in a candidate-delivery-focused role. Recruiting experience is not required. We’re looking for someone with at least one year of professional experience who is comfortable on the phone, motivated by goals, and ready to develop expertise in a relationship-driven business.

You’ll work alongside experienced recruiters to identify, engage, evaluate, and support high-impact professionals across supply chain, logistics, procurement, transportation, distribution, operations, and related functions. Identify and engage prospective candidates through outbound calls, referrals, networking, research, and recruiting platforms.
Recruit passive professionals who may not be actively looking but could be open to the right opportunity.
Build and maintain candidate pipelines for current searches and future hiring needs.
Develop market mastery within supply chain and logistics, including areas such as procurement, sourcing, planning, transportation, warehousing, distribution, operational excellence, and supply chain technology.
Maintain accurate recruiting activity, candidate information, and follow-up plans in our CRM.
Executive recruiting combines elements of sales, consulting, research, and relationship management. Success requires consistent outreach, careful listening, sound judgment, and the resilience to keep moving when calls go unanswered or a candidate says no. You’ll connect accomplished professionals with meaningful career opportunities while helping clients build stronger organizations.

You’ll build knowledge across manufacturing, industrial products, consumer goods, life sciences, food and beverage, packaging, technology, logistics services, and other growing sectors.
Receive hands-on training. Learn executive search directly from experienced recruiters and industry specialists through coaching, observation, practice, and real search assignments.
Earn base compensation plus uncapped commission tied to your performance and results.
Grow from candidate delivery and recruiting execution into deeper industry specialization, full-cycle recruiting, client development, and potential leadership opportunities.
Be recognized for strong performance. Participate in incentive programs, milestone celebrations, and other forms of performance-based recognition.
Benefits include health, dental, and vision coverage; At least one year of professional work experience.
Strong verbal communication skills and confidence initiating conversations by phone.
Self-awareness and openness to coaching and candid feedback.
A bachelor’s degree is preferred but not required.
The ability to work onsite in our Solon, Ohio office.

Experience in sales, customer service, account management, business development, recruiting, hospitality, athletics, or another goal-oriented or phone-intensive environment can translate especially well to this opportunity.

Recruiting can be highly rewarding, but building expertise and a strong network takes time. The first year requires consistent effort, frequent outreach, continuous learning, and the perseverance to keep improving before every result is visible. You do not need to arrive as a recruiting expert, but you do need the curiosity, work ethic, and tenacity to become one.

We help organizations recruit, acquire, and retain high-impact professionals for business-critical positions.

Our Supply Chain & Logistics practice recruits professionals and executives across supply chain management, procurement, sourcing, planning, transportation, logistics, distribution, operations, continuous improvement, and supply chain technology.

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