Talent Acquisition Operations Lead

Talent Acquisition Operations Lead – Remote  

Remote, USA

Come build something that matters.

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 Talent Acquisition Operations Lead, you’ll be part of our Global Talent Acquisition Operations team working as a remote employee.  You’ll get to:  

• Responsible for driving operational excellence, planning rigor, and execution consistency across the global Talent Acquisition function. The position is fully remote and intended for a professional who can bring structure, governance, analytics, and cross-functional coordination to complex hiring operations across multiple regions.
• The role ensures global alignment in reporting, process execution, operating cadence, and workforce planning. It serves as a key operational partner to TA leadership, regional recruiting teams, HR, Finance, and HRIT/HRIS/IT, helping translate business demand into scalable hiring operations and actionable execution plans.
• This opportunity is well suited for someone with strong operations, project management, and analytical capabilities who understands how to build disciplined processes, manage competing priorities, improve workflow efficiency, and drive measurable outcomes across a distributed global organization. Leveraging Workday Recruiting, Alteryx, and Power BI, the position will strengthen operational visibility, improve planning accuracy, standardize execution, and support continuous improvement across the end-to-end hiring lifecycle.
• Govern the global Talent Acquisition operating framework, including KPIs, reporting standards, data governance, and process compliance across regions.
• Build and maintain dashboards and reporting that provide visibility into hiring performance, funnel health, cycle times, recruiter capacity, and progress against hiring plans.
• Deliver operational insights across U.S. Canada, LAG, EMEA, and APAC, while ensuring alignment and consistency.
• Partner with TA leadership, HR, and Finance on workforce planning, hiring prioritization, demand forecasting, and resource allocation across regions.
• Lead hiring velocity planning, throughput forecasting, scenario modeling, and recruiter capacity reviews to improve predictability and workload balance.
• Manage a global TA operating cadence, including business reviews, reporting packs, action tracking, and follow-up on strategic priorities.
• Identify bottlenecks and drive process improvements across the hiring lifecycle to strengthen execution, efficiency, and consistency.
• Standardize workflows, SOPs, and best practices while balancing global consistency with regional market and compliance needs.
• Improve efficiency and reporting reliability through automation using Alteryx and by strengthening Workday data quality and process controls with HRIS and IT.
• Translate analytics into actionable recommendations and serve as a strategic operations partner to TA leadership to improve team effectiveness and scale global recruiting operations.

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 Finance, Business Administration, Human Resources, or a related field.
• 5-10+ years of experience in Talent Acquisition operations, recruiting analytics, workforce reporting, People Analytics, and/or full-cycle recruiting.
• Hands-on recruiting experience with strong knowledge of full-cycle recruiting workflows, requisition management, funnel movement, and stakeholder expectations.
• Proven success in global TA operations, including process improvement, reporting governance, operating cadence, and recruiter enablement across multiple regions.
• Experience partnering across Canada, LAG, EMEA, APAC, and the U.S.
• Strong expertise in Workday Recruiting, Power BI, and Alteryx, including dashboarding, automation, and reporting workflows.
• Experience with workforce planning, forecasting, velocity modeling, and recruiter capacity management in complex, multi-region environments.
• Strong understanding of TA performance drivers, process improvement, and change management.
• Ability to translate data into actionable recommendations and influence stakeholders across recruiting, HR, Finance, and business teams globally.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and execution skills, with the ability to balance strategic thinking and operational delivery across regions.

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!

This role is not eligible for visa sponsorship (H1B, OPT/CPT, TN etc).

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• 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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