Take the Lead in Your Career
As a participant in the prestigious Stanley Black & Decker Leadership Program (SLP), you’ll gain real-world experience to help you become an innovative and results-driven leader.
The multiyear program offers high-potential, early-career employees a variety of challenging rotational assignments and experiences that give you direct exposure to and interaction with colleagues and leaders across our iconic brands and businesses.
Explore Our Functional Tracks:
- Global Operations & Supply Chain
- Engineering
- Technology & Data Analytics
- Finance
- Human Resources
- Commercial
Take the Lead
SLP: Jump Start Your Career Here

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-The StanleyBlack&Decker Leadership Program
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offers a great rotational experience
for incoming students
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who may have just graduated
from college or are earlier in career.
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I'd say one of the biggest benefits of being an SLP
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is the cross-functional collaboration.
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Getting to work with others in-person
has been really helpful
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and it's been a fantastic experience.
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-Cross-Functional teamwork transcends
our job functions
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and it goes into the diversity
of community that we've all come from.
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I think the opportunity to work with people
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who are from a variety
of different backgrounds, both in their work life,
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as well as their personal life,
really fosters different opinions
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being brought into the same problem.
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When you can put your heads together
and work through an issue,
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it really helps come to a solution
that everyone can be on board with.
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-The experience that I'm gaining in two years,
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I could have gained it five years somewhere else.
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Having the possibility
to go to the craftsman toolbox factory,
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then to a Stanley engineer fastening factory,
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and then working the supply chain industry,
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I really got the chance to experience
as many parts of the industry as possible.
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-I'm glad to actually meet all these faces
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I've seen on Zoom calls face-to-face, meet people,
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hang out with them
and just actually have a social environment
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to hang with other SLPs.
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-This program has really allowed me
to shape and mold
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where I see my career path going.
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It's only because I've had the opportunity
to work within so many different areas.
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Being in a rotational program
just allows you to gain
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a great overall experience and width and breath,
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and just allows you to really create
and mold where you want to go
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moving forward and,
and help you be more confident
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when you come off-program
and knowing exactly what you want to do.
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What Can You Expect from SLP?
- Develop your skills through various projects and assignments to more quickly identify your functional strengths.
- Be considered for new assignments and opportunities geared toward agile, high-achieving, early-career talented employees (that could include relocation considerations).
- Get paired with a mentor and gain ongoing coaching that will help you to better identify your strengths, areas for development and career motivators – all geared to help you succeed in your current and future roles.
- Have the opportunity to network with and learn from various leaders across the organization.
- Lead the design, development and implementation of a lean project that improves and adds value to your business area.
- Share and present your impactful project to the global SLP community and internal lean experts.
- Join a group of cross-functional peers through a series of training events to collaborate and participate in a robust learning curriculum.
- Committee groups are available to influence the overall SLP community experience and include community involvement, engagement, leader podcast development and more.
- As an alumni program member, opt-in to participate in the Social Impact Fellowship Program to expand your personal purpose and make an impact in your community.
Functional Tracks

Global Operations & Supply Chain
- Manufacturing
- Distribution
- Industrial Engineering
- Strategic Sourcing
- Industry 4.0

Engineering
- Mechanical
- Electrical
- New Product Design
- Electro-Mechanical

Technology & Data Analytics
- Enterprise Architecture
- Data Science
- Business Insights
- Intelligent Automation

Finance
- Accounting/Controllership
- Operational Finance
- Commercial Finance
- Financial Planning & Analysis
- Internal Audit

Human Resources
- HR Generalist
- Talent Analytics
- Learning & Development
- Talent Acquisition

Commercial
- Digital Marketing
- Trade Marketing
- Field Sales
- eCommerce

Arnau C.
Finance SLP, Finance Generalist
“As a young professional, I knew I could develop a successful career in corporate finance. But I didn’t have enough experience to determine which area would best fit my skills and expectations. The SLP was the perfect way for me to gain exposure to different positions within finance and better understand what they involved.”

Daphne L.
Global Supply Chain SLP, Advanced Technologies
“To be a good leader, you need to have a varied background and a set of experiences that let you really understand and connect with the people you’re leading. The rotation program helped me develop my skillset and gave me the flexibility to be able to adapt to different situations and challenges quickly.”

Charles J.
Engineering SLP, Engineering Management
“I was looking for a leadership program that would let me be part of a product development team and be hands-on in the research and creation of new products. The rotational aspect of the SLP let me experience different tool systems, management styles and differing sets of product design challenges that gave me a diverse portfolio of experiences to draw from in my career.”

Michael G.
Director, Cost Engineering
“Without the Stanley Black & Decker Leadership Program, I would never have known how much I would enjoy Global Supply Management and the doors that would be opened because of it.”

Kathleen Y.
Finance SLP
“It’s such an amazing experience, and I want to make sure that other college students know that working as an intern at this company will exceed any of your expectations.”
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