IT Procurement Lead Business System Analyst

Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. is a global tools and industrial company with an innovative, technology-driven environment. The IT Procurement Lead Business System Analyst will lead procurement technology products, S2C and P2P initiatives, AI and automation efforts, system implementations, process standardization, integrations, requirements, controls, and reporting.

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)