Assistant Product Manager - Field Ideation

Position Title: Assistant Product Manager – Field Ideation

Location: Maidenhead

Work Arrangement: Hybrid / field – travel to be expected

Employment: Permanent

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: 

Supporting all STANLEY Business Units.  We are currently looking for a Field Ideation Product Manager to join our team, focusing on innovation generation. In this role, you will have the opportunity to support the team in the initial discovery work of existing and future construction workflow, materials and techniques in multiple residential construction environments. These ideas will feed the businesses long term strategic roadmap.

What you’ll do:

• Lead and embed the Jobs To Be Done (JTBD) process across the STANLEY business to drive front-end innovation discovery.
• Build an actionable innovation pipeline ahead of pre-phase gate by identifying unmet needs, inefficiencies, and opportunity areas.
• Select, observe, document, and analyse 3–5 jobsite workflows annually to generate actionable customer and jobsite insights.
• Engage external construction industry partners and attend key seminars, expos, and conferences to track emerging materials, methods, capabilities, and legislation.
• Develop a forward-looking view of how jobsites will evolve over the next 5–10 years, including shifts in materials, construction techniques, regulations, productivity, and industry practices.
• Create AI-driven processes to synthesize insights from new and existing data sources and translate them into strategic opportunities.
• Generate 3–5 innovation ideas aligned to the STANLEY 3-year product strategy, while partnering cross-functionally to advance concepts and establish repeatable tools, templates, and best practices.

About You:   

You love to learn and grow and be acknowledged for your valuable contributions. You’re not intimidated by innovation. In fact, you embrace it. Wouldn’t it be great if you could do your job and do a world of good? You also have:  

• Strong project management skills and the ability to effectively work autonomously but also with others across the organization including Product Management, Brand Marketing, Industrial Design, Engineering and Regional Commercial Teams. 
• University degree in a business-related field
• Full UK Driver’s license
• Experience using various computer applications including Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and other applications in the Microsoft Office Suite.
• Ability to work effectively across functions and lead teams.

The Details: 

You’ll receive a great benefits plan, including: 

• An attractive salary & benefits package
• Discounts on Stanley Black & Decker tools and other partner programs
• Excellent opportunities for continuous professional development.

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! 

#LI-Hybrid 

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.