Sourcing Excellence Manager

Sourcing Excellence Manager

Come Make the World with Us
It takes great people to achieve greatness. People with a sense of purpose and integrity. People with a relentless pursuit of excellence. People who care about making things better For Those Who Make The World . Sound like you? Join our top-notch team of 54, 000+ professionals in 60 countries who are making their mark on some of the world s most beloved brands, including DEWALT, CRAFTSMAN, STANLEY, BLACK+DECKER, IRWIN, LENOX and more.

What You ll Do

The Sourcing Excellence team is part of the Global Supplier Management (GSM) Center of Excellence with a goal of implementing the New Way of Working in collaboration with Lead & Regional Category Managers and Purchasing Agents.

Reporting into the Director Sourcing Excellence, the Sourcing Excellence Manager is responsible for ensuring the proper readiness of our supply base to support our corporate growth targets. This includes being a critical stakeholder within the Infinity process to receive, understand, interpret, and validate data against various category strategies. This also includes ownership and management of the Supplier Segmentation and Business Review process and working with the larger Strategic Sourcing team to manage and unlock supplier capability and innovation. The Sourcing Excellence Manager will have to work closely with our internal stakeholders to ensure proper alignment and assessment of category strategy against supplier capabilities as measured by supplier scorecards and other tools. This position will involve leading efforts on a global basis interacting with multiple geographies, work cultures and departments. You ll get to:

• Implement strategic supplier management, minimizing supplier risk, enabling supplier segmentation and strategy as part of Global Supply Management s Center of Excellence.
• Execute processes and tools to adequately measure suppliers in support of SBD growth initiatives.
• Manage strategy creation for key suppliers in coordination with category managers to ensure supplier capacity, capability, value and quality.
• Structure Supplier Management initiatives including Business Reviews, Supplier Surveys and Supplier Conferences.
• Drive closure and resolution to any ongoing constraint to our growth plans by working collaborative with the strategic sourcing team and the supplier.
• Promote the usage of the Global Supplier Portal by strategic, collaborative and leverage suppliers.

Who You Are

You always strive to do a good job but wouldn t it be great if you could do your job and do a world of good? You care about quality - at every level. You love to learn and grow and be acknowledged for your valuable contributions. You re not intimidated by innovation. In fact, you embrace it. You also have:

• A Bachelor s degree is required.
• 5+ years of experience in Supply Chain or Purchasing
• Functional experience in sourcing / procurement; must have a balance of both strategic and operational capacities, including global sourcing, supplier management, commodity risk management, etc.
• Execution Excellence: Planning & organizing, time management, process orientation, process adherence

• Global mindset with experience working in an international/multi-cultural matrix environment (cross-functional and external)
• Strong program, transformation, and supply chain management skills.
• Ability to conceive strategic program initiatives, plan them, sell ideas and execute.
• Strong skills in MS Excel, PowerPoint and Project Management
• Must be willing to travel approximately 10-15%.

What You ll Receive

You ll receive a competitive salary and a great benefits plan:

• Medical, dental, life, vision, wellness program, disability, 401(k), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, paid time off and tuition reimbursement.
• Discounts on Stanley Black & Decker tools and other partner programs.

How You ll Feel

We want our company to be a place you ll want to be - and stay. Being part of our team means you ll get to:

• Grow: Be part of our global company with 20+ brands to grow and develop your skills along multiple career paths.
• Learn: Have access to a wealth of learning resources, including our Lean Academy, Coursera and online university.
• Belong: Experience an awesome place to work, where we have mutual respect and a great appreciation for diversity, equity and inclusion.
• Give Back: Help us continue to make positive changes locally and globally through volunteerism, giving back and sustainable business practices.

What s more, you ll get that pride that comes from empowering makers, doers, protectors and everyday heroes all over the world. We re more than the #1 tools and storage company and #2 security solutions provider, with a leading presence in engineered fastening. We re visionaries. Industry 4. 0 innovators. As successful as we ve been in the past, we have so much further to go. That s where you come in. Join us!

All qualified applicants to Stanley Black & Decker are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran s status or any other protected characteristic.

We Don t Just Build The World, We Build Innovative Technology Too.

Joining the Stanley Black & Decker team means working in an innovative, tech-driven and highly collaborative team environment supported by over 58, 000 professionals in 60 countries across the globe. Here, you ll get the unique chance to impact some of the world s most iconic brands including STANLEY TOOLS, DEWALT, CRAFTSMAN, MAC TOOLS and Black + Decker. Your ideas and solutions have the potential to reach millions of customers as we work together to write the next chapter in our history. Come build with us and take your career to new heights.

Who We Are

We re the World s largest tool company. We re industry visionaries. We re solving problems and advancing the manufacturing trade through innovative technology and our Industry 4. 0 Initiative. We are committed to ensuring our state-of-the-art smart factory products and services provide greater quality to our customers & greater environmental and social value to our planet. We are unique in that we have a rich and storied history dating back to 1843, but that hasnt stopped us from evolving into a vibrant, diverse, global growth company.

Global Benefits & Perks
You ll be rewarded with a competitive salary plus receive entitlements and benefits unique to your country of hire.

What You ll Also Get

Career Opportunity: Career paths aren t linear here. Being part of our global company with 60+ brands gives you the chance to grow and develop your skills along multiple career paths.

Learning & Development:
Our lifelong learning philosophy means you ll have access to a wealth of state-of-the-art learning resources, including our Lean Academy and online university (where you can get certificates and specializations from renowned colleges and universities).

Diverse & Inclusive Culture:
We pride ourselves on being an awesome place to work. We respect and embrace differences because that s how the best work gets done. You ll find we like to have fun here, too.

Purpose-Driven Company:
You ll help us continue to make positive changes in the local communities where we work and live as well as in the broader world through volunteerism, giving back and sustainable business practices.