Global Supply Manager – Lead Category Manager

Global Supply Manager – Lead Category Manager for Metal and Plastic Fasteners - Hybrid

Chesterfield, MI, USA

Montpelier, IN USA

Hopkinsville, KY USA

Come build something that matters.

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 approximately 48,000 diverse and high-performing professionals globally who are making their mark on some of the world’s most beloved brands, including DEWALT®, BLACK+DECKER®, CRAFTSMAN®, STANLEY®, CUB CADET®, and HUSTLER®.

The Job:  

As a Global Supply Manager, you’ll be part of our North American SEF team working as a hybrid employee.    You’ll get to:  

• Defining, leading and monitoring holistic regional supplier strategies, developing category and procurement expertise and talent, and driving best practices across the business units and strategic sourcing:
  • Deliver Year over Year productivity & working capital goals.
  • Close collaboration and interactions with Businesses/Plants to achieve annual productivity and working capital targets.

• Implementing category sourcing strategies and driving sourcing excellence in productivity and working capital (Direct Material spend up to $22M).

• Interactions with suppliers and colleagues across geographies and work cultures.

Strategic supplier management:

• Analysis and observation of the procurement markets as well as trade fair visits to identify new impulses:
  • Recognize trends in the delivery markets and weigh up opportunities and risks.
  • Observe the developments of new providers and technologies.
  • Obtain information about prices, suppliers, technical innovations for a range of parts.
  • Consider unique/specific regional and SBU needs during category strategy development.
• Establish strong and maintain effective relationships with key suppliers to ensure quality, cost, delivery, and productivity targets are met.
• Serve as an escalation point to resolve supplier performance issues.
• Establishing regular communication with strategic suppliers (key suppliers).
• Initiation and implementation of Supplier Days (supplier workshops or supplier Kaizen).
• Support, organize and participate in various events including supplier conferences and summits.

Material field strategy

• Defining, leading and monitoring regional supplier and category strategies, especially for Fasteners Metal and Plastic as Finished Goods:
  • Independent development of future-oriented strategies and purchasing concepts. with regards to the global orientation of the company with the aim of cross-plant application.
  • Consider unique/specific SBU needs during category strategy implementation.
  • Understand and link category strategy with GSM priorities and SBU goals.
• Maintenance and control that the suppliers are classified in the correct product group and subgroups (SIEVO).
• Reduction in the number of suppliers and bundling of purchasing volumes.

Conducting negotiations and concluding contracts

• Negotiate, implement, and manage supplier contracts and service level agreements.
• Ensuring contract compliance (internal approval process) and signature regulations.
• Ensuring that the contracts are registered in the group-wide database.
• Monitor markets and trends to renegotiate prices with suppliers.
• Analysis and negotiation of price adjustments by suppliers.

Execution of tenders / benchmarks

• Lead the supplier selection process through management of formal RFP, RFQ and RFI processes.
• Carry out price comparisons with the aim of optimizing the procurement situation, if necessary, initiate price and value analyzes, attempts, substitution of parts / materials.
• Carry out price comparisons and benchmarks based on the developed material-field strategies:
  • Clarify technical execution, quality requirements based on technical drawings, technical lists, etc. in order to obtain offers.
  • Select the suppliers who are eligible for the request for quotations. Compare incoming offers and initiate technical reviews.
  • Assessment of technical and organizational production possibilities based on the required quality.
• Accompany new part projects in cooperation with development from the product development phase and achieve cost reductions as far as possible.
• Use of new purchasing tools - e.g. eRFQ, eAuctions, should-costing’.

Supplier development and evaluation

• Institute world class procurement / sourcing processes and practices including but not limited to, supplier development & supplier scorecards.
• Supplier development of new and existing suppliers, as well as the implementation of the monthly supplier evaluation.
• Assess the prospects of the business relationship and assess the innovative ability of the suppliers.
• Identify, manage and resolve issues with suppliers that pose risk to the business following the templates and direction of the supplier risk council.
• Support and participate in supplier quality, development, audits, and performance rating.
• Support in the development of processes and tools for supplier evaluation.

Implementation of projects

• Support implementation of individual projects or cross-functional purchasing projects.
• Support implementation of complex large-scale projects.
• Calculation and reporting of potential and realized savings (Protrak).

Other requirements

• Ensure high degree of service delivery and SBU satisfaction; Partner with the SBUs to ensure they recognize the business value from the GSM team.
• Ensuring that suitable control measures and key figures are in place and used to measure progress and derive the necessary corrective action plans.
• Support operations (planning, tactical purchasing) in the context of supplier escalations (delivery bottlenecks, quality problems, etc.).
• Conduct Make versus Buy evaluation of key product lines in support of business strategies.
• Assist in the identification and execution of the negotiated inventory programs.
• Support acquisition integration projects including due diligence, opportunity assessments, sub-team participation, delivery of synergy targets, and overall project management of sourcing initiatives.
• Guarantee compliance with GSS policies and procedures and DOA requirements.

The Person:  

You love to learn and grow and be acknowledged for your valuable contributions. You’re not intimidated by innovation. Wouldn’t it be great if you could do your job and do a world of good? In fact, you embrace it. You also have:

• Bachelor’s degree required.

• 5-10 years of experience in sourcing.
• Minimum of 5 years of strategic sourcing experience including supplier selection, supplier management, contract negotiations etc.

• Successful track record of designing and implementing complex sourcing and procurement strategies that achieved desired results within the category.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively at all levels; particularly at the management level.
• Knowledge of procurement and sourcing techniques and strategies, supplier integration, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Has special knowledge in the relevant areas of responsibility, ideally in Machined Parts; ideally in the industrial or automotive sector.
• Ability to conceive strategic program initiatives, plan them, sell ideas and execute.
• Highly self-motivated with the ability to drive change in a global organization with minimum supervision.

The Details:

You’ll receive a competitive salary and a great benefits plan, including:

• Medical, dental, life, vision, disability, 401(k), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, paid time off, and tuition reimbursement in addition to programs & benefits in support of your well-being.
• Discounts on Stanley Black & Decker tools and other partner programs.

And More:

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 digital learning portal.
• Belong: Experience an awesome place to work, where we have mutual respect and a great appreciation for a wide range of perspectives and experiences.
• 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 company. More than a driving force in outdoor power equipment. More than a global leader in industrial. We’re visionaries and 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!

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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. 

Benefits & Perks

You’ll get a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits plan that includes medical, dental, life, vision, wellness program, disability, retirement benefits, 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.

EEO Statement:
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.

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