Finance Director, Product & Engineering (m/f/d)

Finance Director, Product & Engineering (m/f/d)

Location:  Linden, Germany (Hybrid)

Business: SEF (Stanley Engineered Fastening)

Reports to: CFO Automotive

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®.

At STANLEY® Engineered Fastening Industrial, we are driven by a desire to elevate what our customers create. A division of Stanley Black & Decker, our industry-leading brands, Avdel®, Nelson®, POP® and STANLEY® Assembly Technologies, represent the world's most diverse portfolio of fastening and assembly products and solutions.

Job Summary

Finance Director, Product & Engineering (m/f/d) is a senior finance leader within Stanley Black & Decker’s Stanley Engineered Fastening (SEF) Business Segment, directly partnering with VP Product Management and VP Engineering across the Industrial and Automotive verticals. This role leads financial planning, full product line P&L support, investment analysis, and performance management to drive profitable growth and disciplined resource allocation across SEF’s global product portfolio.

The job:

• Serve as the lead finance business partner to Product and Engineering leadership, linking strategy to financial plans and performance actions.

• Support the full product line P&L, including revenue, margin, operating income, and profitability drivers.

• Partner on portfolio decisions, product line performance, and actions to improve growth and returns including cost-out governance.

• Evaluate new product development and engineering investments through business cases, return analysis, and scenario modeling.

• Support engineering productivity and resource allocation to align investment with strategic priorities.

• Lead the Strategic Plan, Annual Operating Plan and forecast processes for Product and Engineering.

• Provide financial leadership for SG&A and CAPEX planning tied to product and engineering priorities.

• Develop KPIs and decision support that improve visibility to performance, investment effectiveness and execution.

• Partner with FP&A and cross-functional leaders to connect product, engineering, and business performance.

• Build organizational capability over time, including future team leadership as business needs evolve.

About you:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related degree

• 10+ years of relevant financial work experience, with a focus on product development and engineering strategy

• Strong analytical and quantitative skills with the ability to develop and maintain financial models

• Experience in strategic planning and execution along with critical thinking, strong analytic and communication skills

• Demonstrated problem solving and process improvement capabilities

• Strong cross functional leadership skills and experience catalyzing change in a matrixed, international environment.

• High business acumen and increased collaboration with both functional and business leaders, passion for change and doing things in new ways

• The ability to quickly assess the operational efficiency of a functional group or process and prioritize improvement processes

• Fluent German and English skills

We offer:

• An exciting role in an innovative and international environment

• A wide range of development opportunities tailored to your individual needs

• An attractive remuneration package

• A permanent position

• 30 days of vacation

• Flexible working time models & mobile working

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.  

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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.

Global Benefits & Perks

You’ll be rewarded with a competitive salary plus receive entitlements and benefits unique to your country of hire. 

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.

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.