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

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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 48000 diverse and high-performing professionals globally who are making their mark on some of the worlds most beloved brands including DEWALT BLACKDECKER CRAFTSMAN STANLEY CUB CADET and HUSTLER.

The Job:

As a Global Supply Manager youll be part of our North American SEF team working as a hybrid employee. Youll 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 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. Youre not intimidated by innovation. Wouldnt it be great if you could do your job and do a world of good In fact you embrace it. You also have:

• Bachelors 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:

Youll 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 youll want to be and stay. Being part of our team means youll 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.

Whats more youll get that pride that comes from empowering makers doers protectors and everyday heroes all over the world. Were more than the #1 tools company. More than a driving force in outdoor power equipment. More than a global leader in industrial. Were visionaries and innovators. As successful as weve been in the past we have so much further to go. Thats where you come in. Join us!

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We Dont 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 58000 professionals in 60 countries across the globe. Here youll get the unique chance to impact some of the worlds 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

Were the Worlds largest tool company. Were industry visionaries. Were 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 hasnt stopped us from evolving into a vibrant diverse global growth company.

Benefits & Perks

Youll 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 Youll Also Get

Career Opportunity: Career paths arent 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 youll 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 thats how the best work gets done. Youll find we like to have fun here too.

Purpose-Driven Company:
Youll 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.

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