Sr. Manager, GSM Indirect Ops - EMEA
Come Build The World With Us
This is the career you’ve been waiting for. Joining the Stanley Black & Decker team means working in an innovative, tech-driven, and highly collaborative environment, supported by over 58,000 professionals across 60 countries. Here, you’ll have the unique opportunity to impact some of the world’s most iconic brands—including STANLEY, DEWALT, CRAFTSMAN, and Black & Decker. Your ideas and solutions can 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
Stanley Black & Decker is the world’s largest tool company and a global leader in Tools & Outdoor and Engineered Fastening. We are industry visionaries, solving problems and advancing manufacturing through innovative technology and our Industry 4.0 initiatives. Our commitment to operational excellence and sustainability ensures our state-of-the-art “smart factory” products and services deliver greater quality to customers and greater environmental and social value to our planet.
With a rich history dating back to 1843, Stanley Black & Decker continues to evolve as a vibrant, diverse, and growth-focused company. Our growth culture, iconic brands, and passionate people drive us to deliver high-quality solutions for professional tradespeople, talented DIYers, and everyone building our world. Join us as we continue our journey of transformation and innovation
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.
- 6 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 being MRO mandatory: MRO, Facilities, Utilities, Professional Services.
- 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 40% of the time.
What You’ll Do:
Reporting to the Global Sourcing Category Director, the Sr. Manager Indirect Ops –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 subcategories 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
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 43,500 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.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree, MBA preferred
- 6 to 10 years of strategic sourcing experience
- 3 to 5+ years in MRO, Facilities, Utilities, or Professional Services
- 1-3 years of people leadership responsibility
- Demonstrated experience in supplier relationship management
- Proficiency in market analysis and financial risk management
Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Flexible Benefits — A broad U.S. benefits menu with multiple health plan choices, savings programs (including an employee stock purchase plan), tuition assistance, and well‑being extras offers substantial choice and customization. This breadth can bolster total compensation value beyond base pay.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave, additional maternity recovery time, and adoption support provide meaningful family‑focused coverage. Time‑off programs and designated holidays further support work‑life needs.
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Healthcare Strength — Multiple medical, dental, and vision options, plus supplemental coverages, EAP access, and prescription‑savings programs reinforce core health coverage. The company indicates it pays most of the cost of health coverage, which can enhance perceived medical value.
Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. Insights
What We Do
For the builders and protectors, for the makers and explorers, for those shaping and reshaping our world through hard work and inspiration, Stanley Black & Decker provides the tools and innovative solutions you can trust to get the job done—and we have since 1843. You repair your home and car with the tools we provide. Your car and your phone are secured with our fasteners. The things you value most can be protected by our security systems. And the roads you drive on, the bridges you cross, the energy you consume, all of these most likely came to you via one of our infrastructure systems. We join forces to bring together the best of the best to create practical, meaningful products and services that make life easier—empowering people to do better, safer, more significant work. Innovation and excellence have powered our success, but we know there’s more we can do for the world and those who make it. Across our businesses, we’re investing in breakthrough innovation and digital excellence, striving for outperformance and increasing our focus on social responsibility. We define success as: delivering value to our customers, colleagues and communities. Our commitment to quality, safety and sustainability helps us on our path to becoming the type of uniquely human-centered global industrial company that keeps every stakeholder in mind, while helping to make the world better.
