The Senior Supply Chain Recruiter serves as a strategic talent acquisition partner responsible for recruiting CDL drivers, transportation professionals, and Distribution Center leadership talent across AutoZone's supply chain network. This role partners closely with business leaders to develop effective hiring strategies, build strong talent pipelines, and attract top talent that supports operational excellence and business growth. As an ambassador of AutoZone's culture, the Senior Recruiter champions the Company's values of Puts Customers First, Cares about People, and Helps Teams Succeed while delivering an exceptional candidate experience. The role also ensures compliance with DOT and FMCSA regulations and leverages data-driven insights to support workforce planning and hiring decisions.
Key Highlights:
Lead strategic recruiting initiatives for CDL and distribution roles
Ensure regulatory compliance and system integrity
Collaborate with Operations, HRIS, and Supply Chain leadership
Drive performance through KPIs and SLAs
Manage recruitment systems (TenStreet, Oracle Recruiting Cloud)
Serve as a strategic talent acquisition partner to Supply Chain, Distribution, and Transportation leadership, providing workforce planning support, recruiting guidance, and labor market intelligence.
Lead full-cycle recruitment for hourly associates, operations leadership, transportation professionals, and CDL drivers across multiple locations.
Develop and execute proactive sourcing strategies to build high-quality talent pipelines for current and future hiring needs.
Partner with hiring managers to define talent requirements, establish recruiting strategies, and drive efficient selection and hiring decisions.
Recruit and assess leadership talent for distribution center and transportation operations roles, ensuring alignment with organizational competencies and business objectives.
Design and implement targeted recruiting initiatives to attract and hire qualified CDL drivers in competitive labor markets.
Leverage advanced sourcing techniques, networking, social media, referrals, and talent intelligence tools to identify and engage passive candidates.
Support large-scale and high-volume hiring efforts through hiring events, community partnerships, workforce development programs, and targeted recruitment campaigns.
Analyze recruiting metrics and market trends to improve hiring outcomes, optimize recruitment strategies, and provide data-driven recommendations to leaders.
Deliver WoW! customer experience while promoting the organization's employment brand and ensuring a seamless recruitment process from sourcing through onboarding.
Travel up to 30% as needed
Required:
High School Diploma
5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, including experience supporting supply chain, logistics, transportation, manufacturing, or distribution environments.
Experience recruiting hourly associates, operational leadership, and CDL drivers.
Demonstrated success managing high-volume recruitment while simultaneously supporting leadership-level searches.
Strong knowledge of sourcing methodologies, labor market trends, and recruiting technologies.
Experience partnering with senior business leaders and influencing hiring decisions.
Ability to analyze recruiting metrics and utilize data to drive talent acquisition strategies.
Proficient in MS Office (especially Excel) and ATS platforms
High attention to detail and urgency
Willingness to travel (up to 30%)
Preferred:
Experience supporting multi-site distribution center or transportation operations.
Knowledge of DOT regulations and commercial driver hiring requirements.
Experience recruiting within a large-scale supply chain, logistics, retail distribution, or transportation network.
Advanced sourcing expertise utilizing LinkedIn Recruiter, CRM platforms, and talent intelligence tools.
Professional recruiting certifications such as SHRM, AIRS, or LinkedIn Recruiter certifications.
- Competitive pay
- Unrivaled company culture
- Medical, dental and vision plans
- Exclusive discounts and perks, including an AutoZone in-store discount
- 401(k) with company match and Stock Purchase Plan
- AutoZoners Living Well Program for free mental health support
- Opportunities for career growth
- Paid time off
- Life, and short- and long-term disability insurance options
- Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts with wellness rewards
- Tuition reimbursement
Skills Required
- High School Diploma
- 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience
- Experience supporting supply chain, logistics, transportation, manufacturing, or distribution environments
- Experience recruiting hourly associates, operational leadership, and CDL drivers
- Demonstrated success managing high-volume recruitment while supporting leadership-level searches
- Strong knowledge of sourcing methodologies, labor market trends, and recruiting technologies
- Experience partnering with senior business leaders and influencing hiring decisions
- Ability to analyze recruiting metrics and use data to drive talent acquisition strategies
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially Excel, and ATS platforms
- High attention to detail and urgency
- Willingness to travel up to 30%
- Experience supporting multi-site distribution center or transportation operations
- Knowledge of DOT regulations and commercial driver hiring requirements
- Experience recruiting within a large-scale supply chain, logistics, retail distribution, or transportation network
- Advanced sourcing expertise using LinkedIn Recruiter, CRM platforms, and talent intelligence tools
- Professional recruiting certification such as SHRM, AIRS, or LinkedIn Recruiter certification
AutoZone Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about AutoZone and has not been reviewed or approved by AutoZone.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) savings plan is offered, with employer matching contributions made per pay period noted in company materials. This creates a structured long‑term savings path for eligible employees.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — An employee stock purchase plan enables buying company stock at a discounted price. This provides an additional wealth‑building avenue beyond base wages.
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Healthcare Strength — Core medical, dental, vision, prescription, life, disability, and EAP coverage are available as part of standard packages. These offerings establish a comprehensive baseline of health and protection benefits for eligible employees.
AutoZone Insights
What We Do
AutoZone is the nation's leading retailer and a leading distributor of automotive replacement parts and accessories with more than 7,000 stores in the US, Mexico, Brazil and Puerto Rico. Each store carries an extensive line for cars, sport utility vehicles, vans and light trucks, including new and remanufactured hard parts, maintenance items and accessories. AutoZone, headquartered in Memphis, TN, is a growing Fortune 300 company with a deep commitment to serving our customers, communities and fellow AutoZoners. We have vast opportunities in our stores, distribution centers, field offices, specialty business units and Store Support Center and embrace diverse experiences, backgrounds, knowledge and ideas to strengthen our teams and business. Our team is connected by a deep commitment to our Pledge and Values, principles established more than thirty years ago that reinforce our priorities and team culture. In addition, we constantly innovate and aspire to best serve our customers, creating new and better tools, training and outreach to serve both DIY and the professional installer customers. From in-store tools to E-Commerce, training and development to recognition, our team has the tools to help you grow your career at AutoZone. See where your drive can take you!
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