Product Manager – Screwdriver and Pliers (STANLEY)

Black & Decker Europe; Maidenhead; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Tool discounts

Career development

Job summary

Stanley Black & Decker is seeking a Product Manager for Screwdriver & Pliers (STANLEY), located in Maidenhead with hybrid work and 25% travel. You will lead global product strategy, lifecycle, and portfolio performance to drive profitable growth.

Collaborate with engineering, brand, marketing, finance, supply chain and sales to identify opportunities, bring products to market, and ensure successful execution across regions.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in product management, product marketing, category management, or a related commercial role.
• Degree-level qualification in marketing, business, engineering, finance, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Commercial, financial, and analytical skills, including experience with pricing, profitability, and portfolio analysis.
• Strong presentation and communication skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders across functions and regions.
• Experience in tools, accessories, or a related technical product category.

Responsibilities

• Lead global product portfolio lifecycle from concept and launch through phase-out, ensuring categories remain competitive and aligned with business priorities.
• Develop and execute strategic category plans while driving SKU optimization, inventory performance, and accurate product data management across launches, changes, deletions, and promotions.
• Lead new product development and commercialization by applying end‑user research and the jobs‑to‑be‑done framework, partnering with global cross‑functional teams, and driving regional launch readiness, product setup, packaging, documentation, and in‑market execution.
• Serve as the key product contact across EMEA and ANZ, leveraging customer, channel, and market insights to guide portfolio decisions, support presentations and market visits, drive research initiatives, and enable effective product training and communication.

Skills

Product management

Product marketing

Category management

Pricing and profitability

Analytical skills

Stakeholder communication

Education

Degree-level qualification in marketing, business, engineering, finance, or related field

Job description

Position Overview

Position Title:Product Manager – Screwdriver & Pliers (STANLEY) Location:Maidenhead, UK Work Arrangement: Hybrid (25% Travel to be expected) Employment:Permanent

Come build something that matters. 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 approximately 43,500 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

AsProduct Manager – Screwdriver and Pliers (STANLEY), you will help lead the portfolio globally, driving product strategy, strategic category plans, lifecycle management, commercialisation, and portfolio performance to support profitable growth and deliver solutions that meet customer and market needs.

In this role, you will work closely with global and regional teams across product, engineering, brand, marketing, finance, supply chain, and sales to identify opportunities, bring new products to market, optimize the portfolio, and ensure successful execution across the business.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the global product portfolio lifecycle from concept and launch through phase-out, ensuring categories remain competitive, relevant, and aligned with business priorities.
• Develop and execute strategic category plans while driving SKU optimization, inventory performance, and accurate product data management across launches, changes, deletions, and promotions.
• Develop and execute strategic category plans while driving SKU optimization, inventory performance, and accurate product data management across launches, changes, deletions, and promotions.
• Lead new product development and commercialization by applying end‑user research and the jobs‑to‑be‑done framework, partnering with global cross‑functional teams, and driving regional launch readiness, product setup, packaging, documentation, and in‑market execution.
• Serve as the key product contact across EMEA and ANZ, leveraging customer, channel, and market insights to guide portfolio decisions, support presentations and market visits, drive research initiatives, and enable effective product training and communication.
• Serve as the key product contact across EMEA and ANZ, leveraging customer, channel, and market insights to guide portfolio decisions, support presentations and market visits, drive research initiatives, and enable effective product training and communication.

About You

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

You also have:

• Proven experience in product management, product marketing, category management, or a related commercial role.
• Degree‑level qualification in marketing, business, engineering, finance, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Commercial, financial, and analytical skills, including experience with pricing, profitability, and portfolio analysis.
• Strong presentation and communication skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders across functions and regions.
• Experience in tools, accessories, or a related technical product category.

The Details

You’ll receive a great benefits plan, including:

• An attractive salary & benefits package
• Discounts on Stanley Black & Decker tools and other partner programs
• Excellent opportunities for continuous professional development
• 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! #LI-Hybrid 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 43,500 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.

Global Benefits & Perks

You’ll be rewarded with a competitive salary plus receive entitlements and benefits unique to your country of hire.

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.

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. For the builders and protectors, for the makers and explorers, for those shaping and reshaping our world through hard work and inspiration, Stanley Black & Decker provides the tools and innovative solutions you can trust to get the job done—and we have since 1843.