Stanley Black and Decker (SBD) committed to deep and ongoing investment in Product Management. SBD believes that building the right solutions according to our market, while already important to our business, will increasingly become fundamental – even transformational – to the value we deliver to our customers and shareholders.
The Product Manager position offers the opportunity to support our internal and external customers within SBD. This opportunity will provide a great deal of company-wide exposure and professional growth. In this role you will support projects that will bring an enterprise-wide application of analytics and data science to drive business value throughout SBD.
Working with peers in product management, you will be responsible for:
- Creation and ownership of the product business plan development, including product line definition and offering to meet the company's sales and margin objectives.
- Lead the marketing and business planning process that includes working with cross-functional colleagues and directing product development and marketing personnel, establishing accountability and profitability parameters, and defining objectives and short- and mid-range action plans for growth.
- Develops the product line strategy through planning sessions with key internal and external stakeholders, defining product positioning requirements to meet company profit objectives and brand positioning.
- Define, create and launch new and existing products that provide innovative customer solutions and that enhance the company's profit and sales objectives
Responsibilities
- Translate and execute business strategy into product strategy (product vision)
- Drive action throughout the organization to get products to market to ensure optimal product portfolio
- Plan and execute product launches (track product releases and cataloging status with customers)
- and maintains the product catalog up to date and the necessary product training for commercial teams
- Manage product profitability and understand competitors product positioning providing insights on key differentiators and product portfolio strategy to the organization.
- Support the commercial team on product presentations with customers and follow up on product issues and questions.
- Collaborates closely with Product Owner and the Regional Team to shape and contribute to product strategy, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and market needs understanding end user insights, product positioning in the category and product segmentation.
- Articulates and communicates the product vision effectively to cross-functional teams and stakeholders, fostering a shared understanding and commitment to the product's direction.
- Translates the product roadmap into actionable product features and user stories, ensuring that the backlog is well-defined and aligned with strategic objectives.
- Balances business priorities, user needs, and technical feasibility to prioritize the product backlog, effectively managing risks and trade-offs.
- Assesses and monitors the overall health and performance of the product, making informed decisions to drive its advancement and success.
- Solicits and synthesizes customer and internal feedback to drive iterative improvements and inform the product roadmap, leveraging lean validation techniques and user research.
- Manages feature dependencies and orchestrates product releases, ensuring seamless delivery and alignment with business timelines.
- Fosters open and frequent communication within the team, remaining responsive to in-person interactions and creating an environment conducive to collaboration and feedback.
Required skills and Qualifications
- Strong category understanding and experience on product management
- Strong understanding of Agile methodologies and experience in leading Agile product development processes, with the ability to integrate OKRs into the product development framework.
- Solid understanding of business functions and common data sources / models e.g., Sales, Marketing, Finance, Manufacturing including predictive maintenance, Operations including supply chain, sourcing and logistics.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Acute strategic and analytical skills
- Ability to influence and persuade, drive and energy
- Strong teaming skills, collaborative style and commitment to continuous professional growth
- Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Marketing Business or equivalent.
- Experience in advanced required or alternative relevant work experience
- Demonstrated ability to partner with on various projects and teams while interfacing with business stakeholders to ensure value delivery
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.
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.
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.
