Enterprise Excellence, Strategy Deployment Director-Hybrid
Charlotte, NC, Towson, MD, or Valley City, OH
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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,…