Global Supply Manager – Lead Category Manager
Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Chesterfield • Kentucky • Missouri • United States
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About the role
- Defining, leading and monitoring holistic regional supplier strategies
- Developing category and procurement expertise and talent
- 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
- Establish strong and maintain effective relationships with key suppliers to ensure quality, cost, delivery, and productivity targets are met
- Negotiate, implement, and manage supplier contracts and service level agreements
- Monitor markets and trends to renegotiate prices with suppliers
- Lead the supplier selection process through management of formal RFP, RFQ and RFI processes
- Carrying out price comparisons and benchmarks based on the developed material-field strategies
- Support implementation of complex large-scale projects.
Requirements
- 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.
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Life
- Vision
- Disability
- 401(k)
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Paid time off
- Tuition reimbursement
- Discounts on Stanley Black & Decker tools and other partner programs
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
strategic sourcingsupplier selectionsupplier managementcontract negotiationsprocurement strategiescategory sourcing strategiesprice comparisonsRFP processRFQ processRFI process
Soft Skills
interpersonal skillscommunication skillsleadershipcollaborationnegotiationchange managementself-motivationstrategic thinkingrelationship buildingproblem-solving
Certifications
Bachelor's degree