Senior Manager, GSM Indirect Ops-EMEA

This is the career you’ve been waiting for your whole life. 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 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 hasn't stopped us from evolving into a vibrant, diverse, global growth company.

Who You Are:

You’re a curious problem solver who can drive big ideas with spend analytics, key stakeholder management and program management. You’re creative and scrappy but can navigate a large matrixed organization with ease. You’re agile and adaptable but work with precision to ensure we deliver top-notch customer experiences, always.

You also have:

• A Bachelor’s degree.   MBA preferred.  
• 5 to 10 years of strategic sourcing with experience driving change within matrixed organizations
• 3 to 5+ years of experience in at least 2 of the categories: MRO, Facilities, Utilities, Clean Energy.
• 1-3 Years of People leadership responsibility
• Progressive views of the future of work and its impact on facilities design
• Proven experience developing, selling and implementing category strategies in a matrixed large organization environment
• Change leader - ability to adapt to changing conditions and identify creative solutions that add value
• Depth of experience in managing supplier relationships and identifying when to insource/outsource
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex commercial and contractual negotiations and ongoing supplier performance management/scorecards.
• Experience in advanced sourcing techniques and tools, and supplier management
• Proficiency in conducting market analysis, cost modeling and financial risk management
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively at all levels, particularly at the C-level, VP and Director levels
• Influencing without direct authority while being comfortable with conflict of opinions with a demonstrated track record of positive and constructive outcomes
• Ability to juggle multiple priorities including the ability to stay calm even with multiple tactical workstream pressure
• Must be able to travel 20% of the time.

What You’ll Do:

Reporting to the Director – MRO & Facilities, the Sr. Manager GSM MRO/ FAC Europe –is a highly strategic role in the Global Indirect Supply Management team.  To be successful in this role, this leader will support the Global Supply Chain and Global Facilities management team’s journey to drive efficiencies within Europe working with our stakeholders in Operations and Security Guard Services.  This role will work with multiple internal C-level executives, operations and supply chain leaders, plant managers, finance and communications leaders to institute significant change within the SBD to move to drive the Power of One SBD.   

Key sub-categories include MRO, Facilities and Office Supplies. It may include sub categories such as Plant and Corporate hard and soft services, corporate printer and mailroom management, Real estate, General Industrial distribution MRO parts, Tooling, Specialty MRO purchases such as Lubricants, Chemicals etc.

This role will also be responsible for overseeing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) value creation for these categories through a combination of productivity, quality, innovation, service excellence, risk management and margin resiliency.

Specifically, you’ll:

• Develop global sourcing strategies delivering value against productivity, service, quality and Innovation
• Support Procurement Operations organization on Projects implementations drive by your strategies and initiatives
• Lead, coach and motivate team to hit Balanced scorecard metrics
• Conduct strategic spend analytics to identify opportunities for Value delivery
• Responsible for managing the relationship and setting expectations with our Preferred Suppliers
• Supplier selection and negotiation process within SBD’s EMEA Region
• Track performance within each applicable spend category and define budgetary impact
• Build sustainable business partnerships with internal stakeholders and strategic suppliers

Benefits & Perks:

You’ll get a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits plan that includes medical, dental, life, vision, wellness program, disability, 401k, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Paid Time Off, including paid vacation, holidays & personal days, and tuition reimbursement. And, of course, discounts on Stanley Black & Decker tools and products and well as discount programs for many other vendors and partners. 

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.

Stanley Black & Decker is one of the world's largest, fastest growing and most dynamic companies. SBD, a Fortune 200 company is a world-leading provider of tools and storage, commercial electronic security and engineered fastening systems, with unique growth platforms and a track record of sustained profitable growth.

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 hasn't 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.