Engineering Manager, Matching

About Grainger:
Grainger is a broad line distributor with operations in North America, Japan and the United Kingdom. We achieve our purpose, We Keep the World Working®, by serving more than 4.5 million customers with multiple products that keep their operations running and their people safe. Grainger also delivers services and solutions, such as technical support and inventory management, to save customers time and money.
We're looking for passionate people who can move our company forward. As one of the 100 Best Companies to Work For, we have a welcoming workplace where you can build a career for yourself while fulfilling our purpose to keep the world working.
Position Details:
As the Engineering Manager for Product Matching, you will shape newly formed teams responsible for enhancing the product matching capability at Grainger. You will be the driving force behind people, process, and delivery and work with Product Management, Data Science, and the Business to ensure the product matching capability is available to Grainger teams.
You will manage teams of Software Engineers and Data Engineers and report to the Senior Director of Search and Merchandising Engineering.
About Product Matching: Product matching refers to the ability to quickly create product associations between products within Grainger and our competitor's assortment. This capability is enabled by a platform comprised of a business application written in Java, API end points, data processing in Spark, and machine learning services.
Responsibilities Include:

• Team leadership: Lead software and data engineers. Build a collaborative and engineering team.
• Technical coaching: Provide technical guidance to team members with code reviews and partner programming. Foster an understanding of best practices, coding standards, and architectural principles.
• Feature Prioritization and Delivery: Collaborate with Product and Data Science partners to prioritize features and guide delivery timelines.
• Engineering Effectiveness: Nurture a culture of continuous improvement. Identify opportunities to enhance development processes, increase efficiency, and deliver high-quality software.
• Monitor and metrics: Implement and oversee a system for monitoring the health of the Matching platform. Ensure performance aligns with expectations and benchmarks.
• Resource planning and allocation: Plan and allocate resources within engineering teams, taking skillsets, project requirements, and timelines to increase productivity and deliverables.
• Establish clear communication channels and ensure understanding between engineering teams, architecture, data science, and product.
• Risk management: Identify and assess potential risks related to product matching development and implement strategies to mitigate these risks to provide a smooth and reliable release cycle.

You Have:
5+ years of relevant experience, including at least 2 years of engineering management experience.

• Demonstrated experience working with analytics or data science teams in building or deploying data intensive applications.
• A bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related study or equivalent project-related experience. Master's degree.
• Ability to make decisions in an enterprise environment with a diverse set of partners.
• Ability to use data to make decisions about the work and process improvements.
• Ability to conduct performance conversations.
• Collaboration with team members, team members, and vendors. Experience working with our contractors and managing vendors.

Rewards and Benefits:
With benefits starting day one, Grainger is committed to your safety, health and wellbeing. Our programs provide choice to meet our team members' individual needs. Check out some of the rewards available to you at Grainger.

• Benefits starting on day one, including medical, dental vision and life insurance.
• 6% 401(k) company contribution each pay period with no personal contribution required.
• Employee discounts, parental leave, tuition reimbursement, student loan refinancing, free access to financial counseling, education and more.

DEI Statement
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 encouraging an inclusive, accessible environment that includes both providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the application and hiring process and throughout the course of one's employment. With this in mind, should you need a reasonable accommodation during th e application and selection process, please advise us so that we can provide appropriate assistance.