[Hiring] Lead Systems Analyst @Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.

Role Description

As a Lead Systems Analyst, you’ll be part of our IT – Supply Chain team working as a remote employee. You’ll get to:

• Serve as the functional/technical lead for the Procurement technology product area, partnering with Procurement Business Process Owners to define vision, roadmap, and measurable outcomes (cycle time, compliance, touchless processing, supplier enablement).
• Own and maintain the product backlog (features/user stories), including prioritization, refinement, and alignment to business value and capacity.
• Lead discovery and solution shaping for S2C and P2P initiatives; drive decisions across process standardization vs. local variation.
• Drive AI and automation initiatives across S2C and P2P to improve user experience, increase compliance, reduce cycle times, and enable touchless processing (e.g., workflow automation, intelligent intake, guided buying, PO/PR/invoice automation, and spend/supplier insights).
• Act as the project functional/technical lead for implementations, rollouts, and major enhancements (global/regional), coordinating requirements, design, testing, cutover, and adoption.
• Lead cross-functional workshops to define future-state processes and confirm impacts across Procurement, Finance/AP, and upstream/downstream systems.
• Manage functional risks, dependencies, and scope trade-offs; ensure delivery quality and readiness.
• Own end-to-end requirements: business requirements, functional specifications, process flows, control requirements, and acceptance criteria.
• Design and standardize processes across:
  • S2C: sourcing events, supplier onboarding/qualification, supplier lifecycle management, contract authoring/approvals, contract repository, and compliance workflows.
  • P2P: catalogs/guided buying, requisitioning, approvals, PO lifecycle, receiving, invoicing, matching, exceptions, and supplier enablement.
• Ensure solutions support auditability and key controls (e.g., approval traceability, delegation, tolerance rules, segregation of duties, retention).
• Provide functional oversight for configuration of Ariba (or similar) modules and related workflows, catalogs, and supplier enablement settings.
• Lead functional definition for integrations between the S2P suite and multiple ERPs (SAP, Infor, QAD, JDE), including: Supplier/master data synchronization and POs, receipts, invoices, status updates and exceptions.
• Partner with integration teams (iPaaS/ESB/API) and data/BI teams to validate mappings, reconciliation, and reporting needs (spend, compliance, operational KPIs).

Typical Systems & Modules in Scope:

• S2C: sourcing, supplier lifecycle/onboarding, contract lifecycle management (CLM), approvals, compliance.
• P2P: catalogs/guided buying, requisitions, approvals, PO management, receiving, invoicing/e-invoicing, matching, exceptions.
• ERP integration: SAP, Infor, QAD, JDE (multi-ERP operating model).
• Reporting: spend analytics, compliance, cycle time, exception, aging.
• Integration protocols: APIs, EDI, cXML, ETL processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Business, Supply Chain, Finance, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of functional/technical experience sitting at the intersection of enterprise business system analysis and tech procurement pipelines supporting enterprise applications.
• 2+ years Low-Code/No-Code hands-on experience building, deploying, and maintaining production-ready low-code applications and automated workflows.
• Hands-on experience with S2P Platforms like SAP Ariba/GEP/Coupa/Ivalua or similar platforms across S2C and/or P2P modules.
• Experience integrating S2P tools with SAP, Infor, QAD, and/or JD Edwards (including master data and transactional flows).
• Familiarity with agile delivery and tooling (Jira/Azure DevOps) and ITSM (ServiceNow).
• Experience with global template design, regional rollouts, and change management/adoption.
• Strong SQL/data validation skills and familiarity with BI tools (Power BI/Tableau).
• Strong experience translating business needs into epics/features/user stories and functional specifications.
• Proven leadership in testing and release readiness (UAT leadership, defect triage, go-live/hypercare).

Benefits

• 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.