Lead Category Sourcing Manager, Professional Services

About the role

The role is responsible for developing and executing sourcing strategies, elevating business engagement, and delivering annual business objectives. Specifically, you’ll:

• Develop and implement global sourcing strategies for Professional Services subcategories delivering value against productivity, service, quality, and innovation.
• Lead and manage cross-functional sourcing projects from initiation through implementation, ensuring alignment with category strategies, timely delivery of objectives, and effective stakeholder engagement.
• Drive annual productivity improvements in applicable spend categories.
• Supplier selection, contracting and negotiation process.
• Track performance within each applicable spend category across goals & business metrics.
• Monitor strategy implementation and contract compliance.
• Drive best practices across categories and business partners.
• Lead cross-functional teams to develop and implement category strategies.
• Drive value through supplier relationship management.
• Lead or co-lead business reviews with key providers.
• Drive advancement of category based on broad knowledge of market trends.
• Effectively influence, communicate, and lead at all levels within the company.

Responsibilities

Specifically, you’ll:

• Develop and implement global sourcing strategies for Professional Services subcategories delivering value against productivity, service, quality, and innovation.
• Lead and manage cross-functional sourcing projects from initiation through implementation, ensuring alignment with category strategies, timely delivery of objectives, and effective stakeholder engagement.
• Drive annual productivity improvements in applicable spend categories.
• Supplier selection, contracting and negotiation process.
• Track performance within each applicable spend category across goals & business metrics.
• Monitor strategy implementation and contract compliance.
• Drive best practices across categories and business partners.
• Lead cross-functional teams to develop and implement category strategies.
• Drive value through supplier relationship management.
• Lead or co-lead business reviews with key providers.
• Drive advancement of category based on broad knowledge of market trends.
• Effectively influence, communicate, and lead at all levels within the company.

Requirements

• 5 to 10 years of strategic sourcing with experience in Indirect Sourcing Categories, including background across Professional Services landscape.
• Bachelor’s degree in required.
• Must have a balance of both strategic and operational capacities, including global sourcing, stakeholder management, supplier management, and cross functional partnering.
• Experience in advanced sourcing techniques and tools, and supplier management.
• Global mindset with experience working in an international/multi-cultural matrix environment.
• Ability to develop and execute complex sourcing strategies.
• Strong negotiating skills.
• Comfortable with complex agreements and contracts.
• Demonstrated financial and general business acumen.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively at all levels; particularly at the management level.
• Capable of building sustainable business partnerships with internal stakeholders and strategic suppliers.
• Influencing without direct authority.
• Comfortable driving through conflict and ambiguity.
• Strong financial and total value capture understanding.

Qualifications

• 5 to 10 years of strategic sourcing with experience in Indirect Sourcing Categories, including background across Professional Services landscape.
• Bachelor’s degree in required.
• Must have a balance of both strategic and operational capacities, including global sourcing, stakeholder management, supplier management, and cross functional partnering.
• Experience in advanced sourcing techniques and tools, and supplier management.
• Global mindset with experience working in an international/multi-cultural matrix environment.
• Ability to develop and execute complex sourcing strategies.
• Strong negotiating skills.
• Comfortable with complex agreements and contracts.
• Demonstrated financial and general business acumen.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively at all levels; particularly at the management level.
• Capable of building sustainable business partnerships with internal stakeholders and strategic suppliers.
• Influencing without direct authority.
• Comfortable driving through conflict and ambiguity.
• Strong financial and total value capture understanding.

Skills

• Strategic sourcing
• Indirect sourcing
• Professional Services
• Global sourcing
• Stakeholder management
• Supplier management
• Advanced sourcing techniques
• Negotiation
• Financial acumen
• Interpersonal communication
• Business partnership building
• Conflict resolution
• Total value capture

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

Pay

Competitive salary

Schedule

Not specified

Company Information

We are the World's largest tool company. We are industry visionaries. We are 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.

Details

• This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship (H1B, OPT/CPT, TN etc).
• 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.