Title: Group Category Manager – STANLEY
Location: remote (UK with access to Maidenhead office)
Come make the world and accelerate your success.
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 more than 50,000 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:
This role is focused on translating global brand strategies into actionable regional merchandising strategies. The Group Category Manager leads cross-functional teams to execute these strategies, ensuring they align with user, customer, and industry trends. The position involves developing a global assortment strategy and optimizing retail planograms to enhance market presence.
Key Responsibilities:
Market Understanding / Insights
· Market Insights: Transform market intelligence into actionable insights that drive merchandising initiatives and inform go-to-market plans.
· Intelligence Development: Lead the development of intelligence strategies by aligning research and analysis priorities to identify consumer needs, preferences, and competitive landscapes.
· Trend Monitoring: Stay informed about industry trends and innovations to identify new opportunities for growth and differentiation.
Product Portfolio Management
· Global Assortment Strategy Implementation: Develop and implement a global assortment strategy that aligns with brand and category strategies, ensuring consistency and effectiveness.
- Assortment Strategy Development: Create both top-down and market-back regional assortment strategies that drive growth and align with global brand objectives.
· Portfolio Management: Manage in-market portfolio performance by identifying key performance indicators (KPIs), conducting ongoing analysis, and proactively organizing efforts to enhance performance.
Commercialization / Measurement
· Strategic Alignment: Ensure that assortment strategies are aligned with user, customer, and industry trends to maintain relevance and competitiveness.
· Retail Planogram Optimization: Support regional teams in executing and optimizing retail planograms to maximize product visibility and sales.
· Launch Planning: Develop comprehensive launch plans for new products and assortment introductions, ensuring successful market entry.
· Performance Tracking: Track and analyze the success of merchandising efforts, providing performance-based insights to inform future strategies.
Collaboration
· Cross-Functional Leadership: Lead cross-functional teams to ensure the successful execution of assortment strategies, fostering collaboration and alignment.
· Stakeholder Engagement: Deliver category education and storytelling to internal and external stakeholders, enhancing understanding and support.
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:
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:
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!
The base pay range for this position in Maryland is $75,800 - $136,400 per year. Pay is based on market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. A sign-on payment may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position offered. Applicants should apply via Stanley Black and Decker’s internal or external careers site.
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.