IT Procurement Lead Business System Analyst

About this role

Lead Systems Analyst - Remote
Towson, MD, USA
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:

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S2C: sourcing events, supplier onboarding/qualification, supplier lifecycle management, contract authoring/approvals, contract repository, and compliance workflows.

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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

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S2C: sourcing, supplier lifecycle/onboarding, contract lifecycle management (CLM), approvals, compliance

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P2P: catalogs/guided buying, requisitions, approvals, PO management, receiving, invoicing/e-invoicing, matching, exceptions

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ERP integration: SAP, Infor, QAD, JDE (multi-ERP operating model)

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Reporting: spend analytics, compliance, cycle time, exception, aging

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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:

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Grow: Be part of our global company with 20+ brands to grow and develop your skills along multiple career paths.

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Learn: Have access to a wealth of learning resources, including our digital learning portal.

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Belong: Experience an awesome place to work, where we have mutual respect and a great appreciation for a wide range of perspectives and experiences.

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Give Back: Help us continue to make positive changes locally and globally through volunteerism, giving back, and sustainable…