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 of enterprise business system analysis and tech procurement pipelines supporting enterprise applications.
• 2+ years Low-Code/No-Code hands-on experience building, deploying, and maintaining production-ready low-code applications and automated workflows
• Hands-on experience with S2P Platforms like SAP Ariba/GEP/Coupa/Ivalua or similar platforms across S2C and/or P2P modules.

• Experience integrating S2P tools with SAP, Infor, QAD, and/or JD Edwards (including master data and trans