Manager, Market Intelligence

Manager, Market Intelligence

Hybrid in Towson, MD or Remote

Come build your career. 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®, and CUB CADET®

The Job: As Manager, Market Intelligence, you will help shape the future of our Tools & Outdoor business by delivering actionable market and competitive insights across the U.S., Europe, and key international markets. In this role, you will partner closely with cross-functional and regional teams to identify trends, assess market dynamics, and translate complex data into clear recommendations that inform strategic and commercial decisions.

You will:

• Deliver market and competitive insights: Monitor market trends, competitive activity, consumer behavior, and channel dynamics across the U.S., Europe, and other priority international markets to identify opportunities and risks.

• Support strategic decision-making: Provide regular, actionable insights that inform business priorities, category strategies, and growth initiatives.

• Translate data into business impact: Synthesize multiple data sources into clear, concise insights and recommendations for business leaders and cross-functional partners.

• Develop compelling stories from data: Build presentations, dashboards, and visualizations that clearly communicate what is happening in the market, why it matters, and what actions should be considered.

• Drive global perspective: Compare trends across regions and markets, highlighting key differences in consumer needs, competitive intensity, pricing, channel structure, and market maturity.

• Partner across functions and regions: Collaborate with category management, brand insights, commercial teams, regional stakeholders, and other partners to ensure market intelligence is embedded in decision-making.

• Manage projects with pace and discipline: Lead multiple workstreams simultaneously, balancing speed, quality, and attention to detail.

• Support capability development: Help strengthen market intelligence tools, processes, and ways of working to improve the quality, consistency, and impact of insights.

• Manage external partners: Support relationships with data, research, and analytics suppliers, helping evaluate outputs and identify opportunities to improve insight generation.

The Person: You are intellectually curious, analytically strong, and energized by turning complex information into clear business direction. You are comfortable working across regions, functions, and data sources, and you bring a global mindset to understanding markets, consumers, and competitors.

You also have:

• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or other advanced degree preferred.

• 5+ years of experience in market intelligence, strategic insights, business analytics, strategy, consulting, or related fields.

• Experience working with multiple data sources to generate actionable business insights, including sources such as Euromonitor, Circana/NPD, Numerator, YipitData, GfK/NIQ, retailer POS data, and other market or consumer data sources.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to synthesize large and complex data sets into clear takeaways.

• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to translate technical or detailed analysis into simple, compelling messages for non-technical audiences.

• Strong storytelling and presentation skills, with confidence engaging business leaders and cross-functional stakeholders.

• Demonstrated project management skills, including the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, matrixed environment.

• Strong stakeholder management and collaboration skills, with the ability to build trust across functions, regions, and levels of the organization.

• A proactive, self-directed approach and comfort operating with ambiguity.

• A global mindset, with an appreciation for differences across geographies, channels, consumers, and competitive landscapes.

• Experience mentoring junior team members or contributing to team capability building is a plus.

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.

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!

The Salary range for this position is $77,600.00 - $124,900.00

• 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.

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.

What You’ll Also Get 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.

Benefits & Perks You’ll get a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits plan that includes medical, dental, life, vision, wellness program, disability, retirement benefits, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Paid Time Off, including paid vacation, holidays & personal days, and tuition reimbursement. And, of course, discounts on Stanley Black & Decker tools and products and well as discount programs for many other vendors and partners.

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. You’ll find we like to have fun here, too.

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.

EEO Statement: All qualified applicants to Stanley Black & Decker are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran’s status or any other protected characteristic.

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