Enterprise Excellence, Strategy Deployment Director-Hybrid
Charlotte, NC, Towson, MD, or Valley City, OH
Enterprise Excellence is a growing function within Stanley Black and Decker, driving how we work through our production system, Stanley Performance Excellence (SPX). Enterprise Excellence is focused on how we systematically improve business performance, eliminate waste, solve problems, and build that capability across the enterprise.
THE JOB
The Director of Enterprise Hoshin Kanri & Strategy Deployment is responsible for designing, leading, and continuously improving the company's enterprise strategy-deployment process. This role ensures that long-term strategic direction is translated into a focused set of annual objectives, measurable targets, strategic initiatives, and aligned execution plans across the enterprise.
As a key leader within Enterprise Excellence, this individual integrates Hoshin Kanri with the company's operating system, performance management, continuous improvement and leadership routines. The role partners with the executive team, business-unit leaders, functional leaders, regional leadership, and manufacturing sites to establish alignment, identify cross-functional dependencies, monitor progress, and accelerate organizational learning.
The successful candidate will combine strategic thinking with practical execution expertise. They will build a repeatable enterprise process that enables leaders to make choices, align resources, solve problems and deliver sustainable business outcomes—not simply produce strategy documents or facilitate annual planning workshops.
Lead enterprise Hoshin Kanri/Strategy Deployment
· Own the enterprise Hoshin Kanri framework, annual calendar, governance and deployment standards.
· Facilitate the translation of multi-year strategic priorities into annual breakthrough objectives, targets and key initiatives.
· Design and facilitate executive strategy-setting, prioritization and alignment sessions.
· Lead the catchball process to test assumptions, align objectives, surface resource constraints and establish realistic commitments.
· Ensure a clear line of sight from enterprise objectives to business-unit, functional, regional, and site-level plans.
· Maintain strategic focus by helping leadership distinguish breakthrough priorities from routine operational improvements.
· Establish enterprise execution and review mechanisms
o Design and facilitate monthly and quarterly strategy reviews.
o Establish clear ownership, milestones, leading and lagging indicators, risks and escalation paths for strategic initiatives.
o Ensure reviews focus on performance gaps, root causes, countermeasures, decisions and resource needs—not simply status reporting.
o Integrate strategy reviews with existing business reviews, operating reviews and financial planning cycles where practical.
o Facilitate annual reflection and learning to inform the next strategy-deployment cycle.
· Build enterprise strategy-deployment capability
o Develop a practical Hoshin Kanri playbook, templates, facilitation guides and standard work.
o Coach executives and senior leaders in strategic prioritization, catchball, review discipline and countermeasure development.
o Develop regional and functional Hoshin practitioners who can facilitate deployment independently.
o Establish a community of practice to share lessons, improve the methodology, and avoid unnecessary variation.
o Adapt the deployment approach to the needs and maturity of different functions and sites without compromising core principles.
THE PERSON:
You are a motivated self-starter. You always strive to do a good job…but wouldn’t it be great if you could do your job and do a world of good? You care about quality – at every level. You love to learn and grow and be acknowledged for your valuable contributions. You’re not intimidated by innovation. In fact, you embrace it. Passionate about transforming the workforce experience and bringing change. You lead by example, embody SBD values, and instill a culture of inclusiveness and continuous improvement.
· 10+ years in Operational Excellence, strategy execution, business transformation, operations, or a closely related field
· Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business Administration, Operations Management, Finance, or a related discipline.
· MBA or relevant master's degree preferred, but not essential if the candidate has strong enterprise experience.
· Lean Six Sigma Black Belt or equivalent Operational Excellence qualification
· Hoshin Kanri / Strategy Deployment training
· TPS (Toyota Production System) experience or similar production system experience
Hoshin experience: Direct experience designing or leading strategy deployment across multiple functions, business units or sites
Executive engagement: Demonstrated ability to facilitate senior leadership discussions and influence decisions
Performance management: Experience translating strategic objectives into KPIs, targets, initiatives, milestones, and reviews.
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 practices.
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The Salary range for this position is $115,800.00 - $193,000.00
This is the lowest to highest annual full-time salary range we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. The salary offered within the range may vary depending on multiple factors including job level, geographic location, job-related knowledge, skills, qualifications, experience and in compliance with local wage requirements. Please note that salary is only one component of total rewards at Stanley Black & Decker.
The salary range listed in this job posting reflects the range for the primary location specified. The salary range may vary for other locations.
The successful candidate may be eligible for annual merit increases.
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 tool sand other partner programs.
