Key Responsibilities:
Act as strategic advisor for each Business Unit through close working relationships with business partners. Acts as strategic interface between IT and Business Partners to stimulate, surface and shape demand. Serves as an advisor to business partners to shape their strategy with regard to technology and educate partners about IT processes, roles, products and capabilities. Develops methodologies and strategies using a broad array of communication tools to inform, persuade, influence, direct and facilitate analysis and communication between business and IT.
Key Activities:
- Act as the technology advisor and thought leader to the assigned Business Unit or Function.
- Champion to the Business for identifying and driving innovative IT solutions.
- Lead IT transformation that drives business results.
- Communicates business needs with technology solutions team to gain alignment between business needs and technical capabilities.
- Influences and contributes to the overall corporate platform architecture, IT strategy and IT roadmap.
- Represents IT within the BUs by maintaining a high degree of visibility within the business and attending business meetings and appropriate management forums, providing a central point of information for all related IT activities
- Assists the business to form/improve process and systems solutions that are appropriate and adequate to satisfy both tactical and strategic business needs
- Ensure project and initiative progress, including consistent and effective communication and managing escalation/risk.
- Participate in the quarterly forecasting and IT annual budgeting and planning process for the assigned business units, and tracks IT spend
- Helps evaluate IT project objectives and analyzes new business initiatives
- Helps drive necessary change and accountability within the business and IT Leadership to achieve initial and lasting value from IT Initiatives.
Functional Skills
- Stakeholder relationship management and engagement at all levels
- Understanding of future technologies
- Business acumen and Finance principles
- Understanding of industry including financials, market trends, opportunities and threats
- Business case development including identifying metrics that drive value
- Portfolio and Program Management
- Knowledge of required technologies (incl 3rd party solutions)
- Application domain knowledge
- Negotiation
- Oral & written communications
- Strategic problem solving / consulting
- Ability to work with cross functional teams
- Highly organized, capable of effectively managing competing priorities and delivering on business results
- Ability to translate technology to business value while driving positive business outcomes
Technical Skills
- Proficient in MS Excel, MS PowerPoint
- Deep understanding of application portfolio, IT strategy and roadmap, and business priorities
- Security, privacy and risk mindset
- BRMP or CBRM certifications preferred
Behavioral Skills
- Ability to influence
- Leadership - Effectively leads teams & people
- Interpersonal skills
- Organizational and Political Savviness
- Executive Presence and leadership
- Fearlessness
- Humility and Empathy
- Strategic Vision
- Ability to execute
- Adaptability / ability to lead change
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Conflict Management
Education/Experience
- Undergraduate degree and 10+ years relevant experience, or
- Graduate degree and 8-10 years relevant experience.
- 10+ years of relevant experience or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
- 0-3 years leadership experience.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.