Senior Manager, Supply Chain Risk and Response-Prepare

Stanley Black & Decker; New Britain (CT); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Stanley Black & Decker in New Britain, CT, seeks a Sr. Manager, Supply Chain Risk and Response to strengthen global preparedness and resilience.

You will lead data-driven risk Identification, assessment, and prioritization across materials, suppliers, and operations, aligning mitigation actions with enterprise priorities. You will collaborate with procurement, manufacturing, logistics, and finance to develop pre-vetted strategies, run scenario planning, and maintain playbooks.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field (Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, Business, Risk Management) or equivalent.
• Advanced degree (MBA or related) preferred.
• 8–10+ years of progressive leadership experience in supply chain strategy, procurement transformation, or risk management.

Responsibilities

• Lead structured, data-driven processes to identify, assess, prioritize, and mitigate supply chain risks before disruptions occur.
• Champion the risk register and regular review process evaluating business impact and resilience needs.
• Identify critical materials, suppliers, and dependencies requiring mitigation and continuity planning.
• Partner cross-functionally to strengthen readiness and resilience against disruption impacts.
• Develop stress test exercises to validate plans and improve readiness for risks.

Skills

Risk management

Cross-functional leadership

Scenario modeling

Executive reporting

Analytical skills

Stakeholder management

Data-driven decisions

Education

Bachelors degree

MBA

Tools

Palantir

Resilinc

Everstream

Job description

SR Manager, Supply Chain Risk and Response - Prepare - Hybrid

New Britian, CT, United States

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

As a Sr. Manager, you will strengthen our global supply chain preparedness and resilience by leading structured, data-driven risk identification, assessment, and prioritization across materials, suppliers, and operations.

The role is responsible for improving resilience-based decision-making through the evaluation of critical vulnerabilities, the application of risk-ranking methodologies based on business impact, financial exposure, and time-to-recover, and the alignment of mitigation actions to enterprise priorities.

The role will be highly collaborative with cross functional leaders (procurement, manufacturing, logistics, finance, etc.) to develop pre-vetted mitigation strategies, execute scenario planning exercises, and maintain dynamic playbooks.

The role will drive stronger governance, preparedness routines, and leadership reporting to enhance the organization's ability to anticipate, absorb, and recover from supply disruptions.

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:

Accountability /Objectives

Strengthen supply chain preparedness through structured risk review and prioritization processes across materials, suppliers, and operations.

Improve resilience-based decision-making by identifying critical vulnerabilities and aligning mitigation actions to business impact.

Support capital and operational decision-making through risk-ranking methodologies based on financial impact and time-to-recover.

Build stronger cross-functional routines to improve readiness for potential supply disruptions.

Key responsibilities

• Lead structured, data-driven processes to identify, assess, prioritize, and mitigate supply chain risks across materials, suppliers, and operational nodes before disruptions occur.
• Champion the risk register and regular review process by evaluating business impact, supply exposure, resilience needs, financial impact, time-to-recover, and supply criticality.
• Identify critical materials, suppliers, and dependencies requiring focused mitigation, continuity planning, and resilience investment decisions.
• Partner cross-functionally across Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Engineering, and related teams to strengthen the organization's ability to avoid, absorb, and recover from disruption impacts.
• Support and guide mitigation planning for high-priority risks, including alternate sourcing, inventory strategies, continuity actions, operational contingencies, and essential capital prioritization.
• Develop, maintain and perform stress test exercises to validate plans, improve organizational readiness and resilience capabilities.
• Prepare risk analyses, observations, and actionable recommendations for leadership, in alignment with broader set of stakeholders.

Technical Skills & Professional Aptitudes

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, Business, Risk Management, or related field.
• Advanced degree (MBA or related) preferred
• 8-10+ progressive leadership experience in supply chain strategy, procurement transformation, consulting or risk management
• Scenario Modeling - working knowledge of digital twin environments, supply chain visualization platforms (Palantir, Resilinc, Everstream)
• Risk assessment and prioritization frameworks
• Proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, and Word for executive reporting and storytelling
• Comfortable with ambiguity and rapid decisiveness & synthesize tradeoffs quickly
• Systems thinking and strategic vision
• Demonstrated experience identifying, assessing, and mitigating supply chain risks (material risk, supplier risk, and manufacturing resilience).
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and influence senior stakeholders across multiple teams without direct authority.
• Strong analytical and data-driven decision-making skills, with the ability to translate complex risk data into clear action plans and executive-level reporting.
• Exceptional executive presence and stakeholder management skills (ability to influence functional VPs, plant managers etc)
• Experience operating in complex, multi-site manufacturing or global supply chain environments, including exposure to geopolitical and macroeconomic risks affecting global supply networks.
• Excellent Analytica