Sr Director, Procurement - Global Strategic Programs

Company Description

About Avery Dennison
Avery Dennison Corporation (NYSE: AVY) is a global materials science and digital identification solutions company that provides a wide range of branding and information solutions that optimize labor and supply chain efficiency, reduce waste, advance sustainability, circularity and transparency, and better connect brands and consumers. Our products and solutions include labeling and functional materials, radio frequency identification (RFID) inlays and tags, software applications that connect the physical and digital, and a variety of products and solutions that enhance branded packaging and carry or display information that improves the customer experience. Serving an array of industries worldwide — including home and personal care, apparel, general retail, e-commerce, logistics, food and grocery, pharmaceuticals and automotive — we employ approximately 34,000 employees in more than 50 countries. Our reported sales in 2023 were $8.4 billion. Learn more at www.averydennison.com.

Job Description

ABOUT GLOBAL PROCUREMENT:

The Global Procurement function at Avery Dennison is evolving to become a Value Creator function, Following are our team fundamentals. 

Our Vision: To create value for the enterprise through our ONE Avery Dennison procurement mindset.

Our Mission: To gain a competitive advantage in our industry through exceptional procurement practices with an ultimate goal of creating value for the enterprise and our customers. We engage with our internal and external stakeholders in ways that cultivate trusted partnerships. We mitigate risk, employ innovative thinking, embrace the rapidly emerging digitized world and commit to practices that advance sustainability.

ABOUT ROLE: 

This newly designed and introduced role of Senior Director - Global Procurement, Strategic Programs will be responsible for setting the strategic direction and enable execution of Global Procurement initiatives that align with Avery Dennison’s Plan to Win. 

Our global Materials Group comprises Label and Packaging Materials, Graphics Solutions, Reflective Solutions, and Performance Tapes businesses and this role will seamlessly be tying your efforts across those respective businesses.  Reporting directly to the Group Vice President, Global Procurement, this leader will build an organization that will enable execution of the strategy built by this leader. 

This role will be a key member of the Global Materials Procurement Leadership Team (GMPLT). The successful candidate will take along partner functions and people and will lead across highly complex global programs to achieve desired outcomes that truly position procurement as a value creator vs. just being a cost cutter. 

Critical Objectives:

• Leadership Responsibility: Build and lead a global team of 4 highly capable senior procurement professionals that will be leading critical strategic programs for global procurement that has direct impact on Avery Dennison’s Plan to Win. Act as a mentor to top talent within the procurement function. 

• Strategic Programs: This role will centrally design, lead, facilitate following initiatives along with respective leaders as well as the peer functional as well as cross functional communities including but not limited to: 

• Preferred Partner Program (PPP): The leader will refine and execute upon the Preferred Partner Program (PPP) framework that has been recently established through our category and supplier segmentation activity and will accelerate the supplier partnerships that are critical to our success. This leader will set up the program and governance for this program and will enable driving progress on the fronts of competitiveness, delivery, quality, reliability, supplier innovation and sustainability with the help and contributions from GMPLT. This leader will establish an infrastructure for such supplier interactions in partnership with Global Category Leaders for Paper, Films, Chemicals and Indirect to conduct quarterly business reviews that will drive a cross functional collaboration with our partners.

• Tail Spend Management Program (TSMP): Oversee the design, structure and partner with internal as well as supplier partners in driving the tail rationalization across our global spend. Drive successful tightening of the fragmented supply chain through centrally led-regionally executed strategy whilst partnering with our central as well as regional category teams and in alliance with all cross functional stakeholders to drive competitiveness as well as sustainability goals. 

• Environmental Social Governance Program (ESG): This program will include (but not limited to) the following scope.