Category Director - Hand Tools, Accessories & Storage

Category Director: HTAS - Remote 

Come make the world and accelerate your success. 

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 more than 50,000 diverse and high-performing professionals globally who are making their mark on some of the world’s most beloved brands, including DEWALT®, BLACK+DECKER®, CRAFTSMAN®, STANLEY®, CUB CADET®, and HUSTLER®.

The Job:  
As a Category Director- Hand, Tools, Accessories, and Storage, you’ll be part of our Category team working as a remote employee. Category Management is responsible for planning, executing, and analyzing all go-to-market activities for a specific product category and brand through a product's lifecycle underpinned by a continuous focus on innovation. They develop and implement brand and category strategies underpinned by lifecycle management, conduct regular market analysis, and manage the marketing budget allocation. They also ensure correct brand and channel positioning with a clear and consistent brand message and drive commercial resource allocations. Overall, Category Management drives continuous improvement in processes and functions.  In this role, you will be the category expert within the brand & category to deliver strategies that align to the category strategy ensuring Implementation across the full product lifecycle. You’ll get to:   

• Translation Of Brand Strategy Into Category Strategy & Deliverables
• Driving the team to provide product assortment analysis in terms of evaluating product mix and category attachment rates to drive increased sales and customer/user satisfaction.
• Understand The Trends In the Industry & Competitors To Identify Opportunities
• Understand The Commercial Environment And Retailer Needs to Deliver Optimized Launches
• Ownership of Overall Category To Deliver Profitable Growth
• Category Marketing Budget Allocation & Management
• Setting and managing the Category P&L. Business Performance Reporting (Month/Quarterly)
• Drive monthly review of business summarizing data from other teams (financials, POS, UFR, ratings)
• Co-own internal report outs (i.e. PCM with product management.)
• Conduct whitespace & negative margin analysis on the portfolio, support assortment strategy analysis
• Inform IBP process of strategy/portfolio changes; ensure changes are reflected
• Ensure demand planning is aligned with category growth plans. Ensure operations and finance team alignment. 
• Coordinate cross-functional roadmap reviews; drive NPD prioritization as a brand-agnostic partner
• Gather and translate Strategy and Insight teams market intelligence for the overall business into actionable brand-specific and end-user shopper insights
• Provide coaching and mentoring to team and other Category Managers. Responsible for creating a vision for their teams and establishing clear goals. Motivate employees to contribute to the success of the team by providing feedback and recognition

The Person:  
You love to learn and grow and be acknowledged for your valuable contributions. You’re not intimidated by innovation. Wouldn’t it be great if you could do your job and do a world of good? In fact, you embrace it. You also have:  

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration or marketing
• 10+ years of experience including category management experience.  
• Category & Portfolio Strategy Design experience. Setting clear brand architecture to inform how we show up in the market.
• Strategy Communication & Buy-In. Work cross-functionally with Global Category VP, Finance, Channel Marketing, Sales, and Regional Commercial Leads. 
• Marketing Budget Management & Allocation 
• Product, Brand & Commercial Prioritization 
• Govern NPD Process for Alignment to Overarching Brand Direction. Involved in the early-stage ideation phase
• Experienced in the Commercial Market. 
• Previous Product Development Experience is preferred.  
• Previous Brand & Communication Experience is Preferred. (i.e. Channel Marketing) 
• Financial Acumen & Budget Management 
• Strong Communication & Presentation Skills including external communication with partners and customers.  
• Ability to approach the market with humility and curiosity to dig deep and anticipate issues/opportunities  
• Delivering innovations that meet and exceed target end-user needs 
• Re-establishing our unique market-leading brand portfolio & innovation that channels need to prioritize 
• The ability to drive decisions based on data at every stage of the CGO Operating model
• Being end-user and demand space-centric 
• The ability to travel as needed.

The Details: 
You’ll 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.
• Discounts on Stanley Black & Decker tools and other partner programs.

And More:  
We want our company to be a place you’ll want to be – and stay. Being part of our team means you’ll 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. 

What’s more, you’ll get that pride that comes from empowering makers, doers, protectors, and everyday heroes all over the world. We’re more than the #1 tools company. More than a driving force in outdoor power equipment. More than a global leader in industrial. We’re visionaries and innovators. As successful as we’ve been in the past, we have so much further to go. That’s where you come in. Join us!

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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. 

Benefits & Perks

You’ll 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 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.

EEO Statement:
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.

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