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:  

As a Senior Manager, Talent Partner – APAC, you’ll be part of our Global Talent team, helping leaders and HR Business Partners execute enterprise talent priorities consistently across Asia-Pacific. The role applies enterprise talent frameworks in the region, facilitates effective talent discussions, and supports leaders in owning talent outcomes while partnering with Talent COE specialists who manage enterprise standards, tools, and governance.

Working within a matrixed talent model, the role connects enterprise talent strategy to business execution through implementation, insight, and cross-functional collaboration. The role may lead or support talent activities depending on the process, organizational level, business maturity, and regional context. You’ll get to:  

• Translate enterprise talent strategy into actionable talent plans across APAC.
• Partner with HR Business Partners to align business strategy and workforce priorities with talent actions.
• Identify regional talent themes, capability gaps, and succession risks to inform planning.
• Facilitate succession planning, talent reviews, and calibration discussions across assigned groups and leadership levels.
• Support leaders in identifying successor slates, assessing readiness, and defining development priorities.
• Track follow-through on talent actions while reinforcing leader ownership of final decisions and outcomes.
• Implement enterprise talent processes, standards, and tools in partnership with Talent COE specialists.
• Drive adoption of talent practices through facilitation, training, and practical guidance for leaders and HR stakeholders.
• Coordinate across business leaders, HRBPs, Talent COE specialists, and regional stakeholders to align priorities and execution.
• Ensure talent approaches are practical and relevant across diverse APAC environments, including frontline, plant, technical, functional, and cross-site settings.
• Support annual and cyclical performance management processes, reinforcing consistency, assessment quality, and development planning.
• Translate regional capability needs into leadership development and internal mobility actions that strengthen bench depth, readiness, and retention.
• Use workforce planning, dashboards, and talent insights to identify trends, inform decisions, and prioritize actions on talent health and capability needs.

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 Human Resources, Business, Organizational Development, Psychology, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in HR business partnership, with Talent as a significant focus area.
• Experience in talent management, succession planning, leadership development, organizational effectiveness, or related HR disciplines.
• Experience working in complex, matrixed, multi-country environments, ideally across Asia-Pacific.
• Strong ability to translate enterprise frameworks into practical business application while maintaining role clarity and governance.
• Strong facilitation, stakeholder management, and influencing skills across senior leaders, HR Business Partners, and specialist teams.
• Strong analytical capability and comfort using talent data, dashboards, and insights to support decision-making and prioritization.
• Ability to build trust through sound judgment, clarity, and practical partnership.
• Ability to balance enterprise standards with regional and business needs while operating effectively through influence, facilitation, and coordination.
• Track record of improving the quality and consistency of talent discussions, follow-through, and execution of talent priorities.
• Strengthens execution of talent priorities by connecting strategy, process discipline, data, and stakeholder alignment.
• Ability to travel as needed, typically up to 25% of the time. 

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!

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.