Senior Manager

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:  

The Senior Manager, Compensation - Tools & Outdoor will serve as a key resource for all compensation-related matters supporting the Tools & Outdoor global organization with an emphasis on the commercial organization in North America (US & Canada). This position will support the design, administration, and delivery of all compensation policies & programs to ensure competitive positioning in order to attract and retain top talent. This role will serve as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) and a thought leader to the organization on compensation matters.  This position will report directly to the Senior Director, Global Compensation – Tools & Outdoor and will be part of our Compensation Center of Expertise as a remote employee.    You’ll get to:  

• Provide consulting services around the design and administration of variable compensation programs for the sales organization.
• Serve as a subject matter expert and thought leader to the organization in support of Stanley Black & Decker’s compensation philosophy including incentive plan design, job grading, market pricing, internal equity, job evaluations, hourly/salaried/sales compensation structure design, and the annual compensation planning process.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders on a wide variety of projects, such as global job architecture, market assessments, and other pay analyses. 
• Ensure successful execution within the business, including the implementation, education, communication, and administration of enterprise-wide compensation programs.
• Monitor performance against plans and take action necessary to ensure achievement; collect, analyze, and summarize compensation information to satisfy statutory and regulatory and organization requirements; interface with Labor and Employee Relations and Talent Acquisition.
• Support the development of new compensation plans, programs and policies or changes to existing compensation plans, programs and policies.
• Participate in compensation surveys for SBD Canada to ensure access to relevant market data.
• Ensure compensation data in HR systems are accurate and adequate to meet business needs.
• Provide analytical support including economic and cost impact models in the development of merit budgets, variable compensation guidelines, job family structures, grades, pay lines, broad bands or other structures.
• Provide pro-active compensation analysis to identify potential retention risks of key talent in the organization.  Identify and analyze business problems and devise solutions to the problems.
• Define process improvement and best practice opportunities to current business/work processes.
• Other duties as assigned

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: 

• Minimum of 5-10 years of relevant experience in Compensation and/or Total Rewards
• Sales Compensation experience required/North America (US & Canada) experience preferred
• Experience using Workday preferred
• Experience in a company that sells Durable Goods preferred
• Effective decision-making/critical thinking skills with the ability to manage and influence key stakeholders
• Excellence in customer focus:  Ability to collaborate, consult and partner with HR and business leaders to provide thought leadership and drive results
• Strong project management, change management, and communication skills
• Exceptional organizational skills with strong attention to detail, follow-up and problem resolution.
• Ability to maintain a high level of confidentiality

The Details:

You’ll receive a competitive salary and a great benefits plan, including:

• Medical, dental, life, vision, wellness program, 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 diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• 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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