IT Procurement Lead Business System Analyst

Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. is a global leader in tool manufacturing, seeking a Lead Systems Analyst to join their IT – Supply Chain team. The role involves serving as the functional/technical lead for Procurement technology, managing product backlogs, and driving AI and automation initiatives to enhance user experience and compliance.

Responsibilities:

• 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)

Requirements:

• 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)