Venture Strategist

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Job description

We are looking for creative problem solvers who have strong entrepreneurial instincts to help us identify new sources of growth for Stanley Black and Decker. Our venture strategists use strategy, analysis, and financial modeling to turn innovations into real businesses with long-term viability. You will be working with the Stanley X team to identify new opportunities in partnership with the Stanley X cross-functional team as well as key stakeholders within the Stanley Black and Decker business divisions.

You will work to identify new opportunities in fast-growing emerging markets for digital and hardware technologies. You will be supporting strategic and tactical decisions through your research, analysis, and insight development.The result of your work will be playing a significant role in realizing ventures that have the potential to make a significant impact.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Support functional and product leaders to commercialize new and next-gen solutions through strategic research, market analysis, and insight development
• Provide analytical support for cross-functional teams in new concept development and commercialization situations
• Lead and perform primary and secondary research, critical thinking, and analysis to address key strategic questions related to new concept development and commercialization
• Build robust, agile customer segmentation, market sizing analysis, competitive landscaping, and much more to support decision making
• Develop actionable business insights from qualitative and quantitative research and data
• Leverage the research, analysis, and insights to create actionable business plans

Qualifications

• A curious problem solver who has the ability to bring big ideas to life. You're creative and scrappy but can navigate a large organization with ease.
• You have at least 4+ years of corporate strategy or management consulting experience or equivalent experience in a similar role
• Able to synthesize/analyze complex and diverse information developing and recommending strategies
• Solid business acumen ensuring market insights are relevant and practical
• You daydream new startup ideas in your spare time
• Prior experience in market segmentation including sizing, pricing, competitive landscape, channel analysis, and VOC (voice of customer)
• Proven track record communicating to senior leadership including motivating and influencing peers
• Ability to toggle between strategic thinking and detail orientation
• Readiness to roll-up-your-sleeves
• Bachelor's degree in Business or related field, MBA preferred

Why work with us
Solve massive problems for customers
We approach problems with a lean startup methodology, focused on in-depth user research and addressing the most critical problems first. We are a technology and innovation team that leads with the voice of the customer, value-based pricing, and strong secondary research and competitive analysis.

Visibility to senior leadership
Our team reports directly into the CEO and operates autonomously within the company. This role will report to the head of the group and work closely across other teams.

Work with great companies
We work with some of the most innovative companies in construction technology, additive manufacturing, and supply chain. Our partners range from Y Combinator startups to multi-billion-dollar unicorns. You'll have unparalleled access to their technologies and the freedom to explore new and innovative ways of solving customer problems.

About Stanley Black & Decker
Joining the Stanley Black & Decker (SBD) team means joining one of the world's largest, fastest-growing, and most dynamic companies.SBD, a Fortune 500 companyis a world-leading provider of tools and storage, commercial electronic security, Oil & Gas pipeline inspection and construction and engineered fastening systems, with unique growth platforms and a track record of sustained profitable growth. We have been globally recognized as one of the most innovative, sustainable, and rewarding companies in the world.

Stanley X is Stanley Black & Decker's Innovation arm dedicated to launching and growing exponentially scalable businesses to address customers' needs within our strategic markets. We are building a capability within Stanley Black & Decker to identify and seize on new sources of growth. We are a group of innovation & business-building professionals located in Silicon Valley, Towson, MD, and in Atlanta, GA. One example of Stanley X at work is what we are building with our Construction Technology platform to bring new digital services, workflow tools, and data transparency to the construction industry.

Today's world of construction accounts for over 10% of the world's GDP, and it's no secret that worker productivity and building complexity are the biggest challenges. As a result, the industry is at an inflection point for disruption. Last year alone, nearly $2B in venture capital were invested across 2,000+ companies in construction technology. Stanley Black & Decker is partnering with contractors and startups to develop new digital products that will increase productivity and on-time/on-budget performance of construction projects.

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