IT Procurement Lead Business System Analyst

Lead Systems Analyst - Remote Remote, United States 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 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 Lead Systems Analyst, you’ll be part of our IT – Supply Chain team working as a remote employee. You’ll get to: • 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). Typical Systems & Modules in Scope • S2C : sourcing, supplier lifecycle/onboarding, contract lifecycle management (CLM), approvals, compliance • P2P : catalogs/guided buying, requisitions, approvals, PO management, receiving, invoicing/e-invoicing, matching, exceptions • ERP integration : SAP, Infor, QAD, JDE (multi-ERP operating model) • Reporting : spend analytics, compliance, cycle time, exception, aging • Integration protocols : APIs, EDI, cXML, ETL processes 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: • 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). The Details: You’ll receive a competitive salary and a great benefits plan, including: • Medical, dental, life, vision, disability, 401(k), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, paid time off, and tuition reimbursement in addition to programs & benefits in support of your well-being. • 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 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 pra