The Role: Assistant Product Manager, Outdoor Products EMEA ANZ
Location: Hybrid, Maidenhead – with occasional travel as required
Employment: Permanent
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:
Join us as an Assistant Product Manager and help shape the future of our Outdoor Products portfolio across EMEA ANZ. This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious early-career professional to work across leading brands including BLACK+DECKER, DEWALT, and STANLEY, supporting innovative product categories such as walk-behind lawnmowers, robotic solutions, chore products, and outdoor accessories.
If you are commercially minded, curious about customer needs, and passionate about bringing great products to market, this role offers the chance to make a real impact. You’ll play an important part in the product lifecycle, uncover customer pain points through research, and help deliver compelling solutions that resonate with end users—while building energy and enthusiasm for your categories with stakeholders across the business.
What You’ll Do:
- Support the development and execution of product plans across the Outdoor Products portfolio in EMEA and ANZ.
- Assist in managing the product lifecycle, from market insight and concept development through to launch and ongoing portfolio support.
- Conduct end-user, customer, and market research to identify unmet needs, pain points, and product opportunities.
- Support product launches and go-to-market activities in partnership with regional trade marketing and central cross-functional teams.
- Collaborate closely with brand, commercialisation, supply chain, engineering, and regional teams to ensure aligned execution.
- Act as a strong ambassador for the product range, building engagement and enthusiasm among internal stakeholders, customers, and partners.
The Person:
You always strive to do a good job…but wouldn’t it be great if you could do your job and do a world of good? You care about quality – at every level. You love to learn and grow and be acknowledged for your valuable contributions. You’re not intimidated by innovation. In fact, you embrace it. You also:
- Are at an early stage in your career, whether as a recent graduate or with some initial professional experience
- Have a strong interest in product management, consumer products, outdoor products, or adjacent categories
- Are proficient in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel and PowerPoint
- Are organised and capable of managing multiple priorities across regions and functions
- Are commercially minded, with an interest in both product performance and customer value
- Are collaborative and confident working with cross-functional teams across international markets
- Hold a full UK driving licence
The Details:
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.
