Four years after his retirement as a player, Gradin returned to the Vancouver Canucks organization as an amateur scout prior to the 1994–95 NHL season. After four years in that role, he was promoted to Head of European Scouting in 1998, a position he held until 2007. During that time, he played a key role in the Canucks drafting Daniel and Henrik (1999), Mattias Öhlund and Alexander Edler.