Executive Assistant, VP, Manufacturing – Latin America
Onsite - Apodaca, Monterrey
Come build your career.
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:
We are seeking a highly capable, strategic, and exceptionally polished Executive Assistant to support the VP, Latin America Manufacturing . This leader is responsible for manufacturing operations across plants in Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina , and requires a trusted partner who can operate with urgency, discretion, sound judgment, and a high level of professionalism.
This role is ideal for an experienced Executive Assistant who thrives in a fast-paced, high-expectation environment and can anticipate needs, manage competing priorities, and create structure in a complex regional business setting.
The successful candidate will serve as a key partner to the VP, enabling focus on strategic priorities by ensuring seamless coordination of calendar, travel, communications, meetings, and follow-through across the organization.
- Manage an extremely active, complex, and constantly shifting calendar, prioritizing critical business needs while protecting time for strategic focus.
- Coordinate domestic and international travel arrangements, including flights, hotels, ground transportation, itineraries, agendas, supporting materials and travel expenses
- Ensure the VP is fully prepared for upcoming meetings, travel, decisions, and commitments through proactive planning and timely follow-up.
- Partner closely with the VP’s direct reports and key stakeholders to track action items, meeting follow-ups, and deliverables to completion.
- Support the rhythm of the business by coordinating leadership meetings, staff meetings, operating reviews, and other core business cadences, ensuring logistics and materials are prepared in advance.
- Build strong working relationships across functions and geographies to facilitate efficient communication, alignment, and execution.
- Handle highly confidential information and sensitive matters with the utmost discretion, maturity, and professionalism.
- Draft, edit, and format high-quality correspondence, presentations, reports, spreadsheets, and other executive materials.
- Support PowerPoint development, Excel-based data organization, and chart creation for business reviews and leadership presentations.
- Complete and manage Concur expense reports accurately and in a timely manner.
- Identify and implement opportunities to improve administrative processes, streamline workflows, and increase executive effectiveness.
- Partner with Executive Assistants across the organization to resolve scheduling conflicts and coordinate efficiently across senior leaders.
- Manage and Coordinate logistic arrangements for visits from high level Executives and Government officials.
- Prioritize multiple competing demands, respond with urgency, and ensure flawless execution under tight deadlines and changing business conditions.
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:
- Minimum of 10 years of professional experience, with a significant amount of that time supporting leader for a publicly traded, global company
- Impeccable communicator and representative for Stanley Black & Decker, both in verbal and written communication. Professional and positive demeanor and executive presence
- Expert Proficiency using Microsoft Office Suite, experience with travel systems and expense reimbursement procedures
- Demonstrated proactive approach to problem-solving with strong and independent decision-making capability
- Highly resourceful team-player, with the ability to also be extremely effective independently
- Excellent analytical, time-management, and project management skills. High degree of attention to detail while also being tenacious with execution are critical elements to success in role
- Superb interpersonal skills and working in a complex, matrixed organization
- High degree of confidentiality and professionalism
- Demonstrated ability to achieve high performance goals and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- Forward looking thinker, who actively seeks opportunities and proposes solutions
- Strong organizational skills that reflect ability to perform and prioritize multiple tasks seamlessly with excellent attention to detail
- A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent Experience
- English Fluency, Portuguese knowledge a plus
The Details:
You’ll receive a competitive salary and a great benefits plan.
And More:
We want our company to be a place you’ll want to be – and stay. Being part of our team means you 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 diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- 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.
