IT Procurement Lead Business System Analyst

Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.•Towson, MD

2d•$90,000 - $144,900•Remote

About The Position

As a Lead Systems Analyst on the IT – Supply Chain team, this remote role serves as the functional and technical lead for the Procurement technology product area. The position partners with Procurement Business Process Owners to define product vision, roadmaps, and measurable outcomes, and owns the product backlog and delivery alignment to business value and capacity. The role leads discovery, solution design, and delivery for source-to-contract (S2C) and procure-to-pay (P2P) initiatives, including process standardization, AI and automation, implementations, rollouts, and major enhancements. It defines end-to-end requirements and future-state processes, oversees configuration of S2P platforms such as Ariba or similar tools, and ensures solutions support auditability and key controls. The position also leads functional definition of integrations between S2P platforms and multiple ERP systems, partnering with integration and data/BI teams to validate mappings, reconciliation, and reporting. Areas in scope include S2C and P2P modules, multi-ERP integration, and procurement analytics and operational reporting.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Business, Supply Chain, Finance, or equivalent experience.
8+ years of functional/technical experience at the intersection of enterprise business system analysis and technology procurement pipelines supporting enterprise applications.
2+ years of hands-on Low-Code/No-Code experience building, deploying, and maintaining production-ready applications and automated workflows.
Hands-on experience with S2P platforms such as SAP Ariba, GEP, Coupa, Ivalua, or similar 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 such as Jira or Azure DevOps, and ITSM tools such as ServiceNow.
Experience with global template design, regional rollouts, and change management/adoption.
Strong SQL and data validation skills, and familiarity with BI tools such as Power BI or Tableau.
Strong experience translating business needs into epics, features, user stories, and functional specifications.
Proven leadership in testing and release readiness, including UAT leadership, defect triage, go-live, and hypercare.

Responsibilities

Serve as the functional and technical lead for the Procurement technology product area, partnering with Procurement Business Process Owners on vision, roadmap, and measurable outcomes.
Own and maintain the product backlog, including feature and user-story prioritization, refinement, and alignment to business value and capacity.
Lead discovery and solution shaping for S2C and P2P initiatives, driving decisions on process standardization versus local variation.
Drive AI and automation initiatives across S2C and P2P to improve user experience, compliance, cycle times, and touchless processing.
Lead implementations, rollouts, and major enhancements, 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 and downstream systems.
Manage functional risks, dependencies, and scope trade-offs, and ensure delivery quality and readiness.
Own end-to-end business requirements, functional specifications, process flows, control requirements, and acceptance criteria.
Design and standardize S2C processes for sourcing events, supplier onboarding and qualification, supplier lifecycle management, contract authoring and approvals, contract repositories, and compliance workflows.
Design and standardize P2P processes for catalogs and guided buying, requisitioning, approvals, purchase orders, receiving, invoicing, matching, exceptions, and supplier enablement.
Ensure solutions support auditability and key controls, including approval traceability, delegation, tolerance rules, segregation of duties, and retention.
Provide functional oversight for configuration of Ariba or similar modules, workflows, catalogs, and supplier enablement settings.
Lead functional definition for integrations between S2P platforms and SAP, Infor, QAD, and JDE ERP systems, including supplier/master data synchronization and transactional flows.
Partner with integration teams and data/BI teams to validate mappings, reconciliation, and reporting needs, including spend, compliance, and operational KPIs.
Lead testing and release readiness, including UAT leadership, defect triage, go-live, and hypercare.

Benefits

Medical insurance
Dental insurance
Life insurance
Vision insurance
Disability benefits
401(k)
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Paid time off, including vacation, holidays, and personal days
Tuition reimbursement
Wellness program
Discounts on Stanley Black & Decker tools, products, and partner programs
Access to learning resources, including a digital learning portal, Lean Academy, and online university