IT Procurement Lead Business System Analyst

Lead Systems Analyst - Remote Towson, MD, USA 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®.

The Job:   As a Lead Systems Analyst, you’ll be part of our IT – Supply Chain team working as a remote employee. You’ll get to:   Serve as the functional/technical lead for the Procurement technology product area, partnering with Procurement Business Process Owners to define vision, roadmap, and measurable outcomes (cycle time, compliance, touchless processing, supplier enablement) . Own and maintain the product backlog (features/user stories), including prioritization, refinement, and alignment to business value and capacity.

Lead discovery and solution shaping for S2C and P2P initiatives; drive decisions across process standardization vs. local variation. Drive AI and automation initiatives across S2C and P2P to improve user experience, increase compliance, reduce cycle times, and enable touchless processing (e.g., workflow automation, intelligent intake, guided buying, PO/PR/invoice automation, and spend/supplier insights).

Act as the project functional/technical lead for implementations, rollouts, and major enhancements (global/regional), coordinating requirements, design, testing, cutover, and adoption. Lead cross-functional workshops to define future-state processes and confirm impacts across Procurement, Finance/AP, and upstream/downstream systems. Manage functional risks, dependencies, and scope trade-offs; ensure delivery quality and readiness.

Own end-to-end requirements: business requirements, functional specifications, process flows, control requirements, and acceptance criteria. Design and standardize processes across: S2C : sourcing events, supplier onboarding/qualification, supplier lifecycle management, contract authoring/approvals, contract repository, and compliance workflows. P2P : catalogs/guided buying, requisitioning, approvals, PO lifecycle, receiving, invoicing, matching, exceptions, and supplier enablement.

Ensure solutions support auditability and key controls (e.g., approval traceability, delegation, tolerance rules, segregation of duties, retention). Provide functional oversight for configuration of Ariba (or similar) modules and related workflows, catalogs, and supplier enablement settings. Lead functional definition for integrations between the S2P suite and multiple ERPs (SAP, Infor, QAD, JDE), including: Supplier/master data synchronization and POs, receipts, invoices, status updates and exceptions Partner with integration teams (iPaaS/ESB/API) and data/BI teams to validate mappings, reconciliation, and reporting needs (spend, compliance, operational KPIs).

Typical Systems & Modules in Scope S2C : sourcing, supplier lifecycle/onboarding, contract lifecycle management (CLM), approvals, compliance P2P : catalogs/guided buying, requisitions, approvals, PO management, receiving, invoicing/e-invoicing, matching, exceptions ERP integration : SAP, Infor, QAD, JDE (multi-ERP operating model) Reporting : spend analytics, compliance, cycle time, exception, aging Integration protocols : APIs, EDI, cXML, ETL processes 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 Information Systems, Business, Supply Chain, Finance, or equivalent experience. 8+ years of  functional/technical experience sitting at the intersection o