Director, Procurement - Global Sustainability & Supplier Diversity

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 Director, Procurement - Global Sustainability & Supplier Diversity will be responsible for being the focal point of contact for World Wide Material Group’s Global Procurement as well as the go to person for the internal Sustainability, ESG Team and external supplier partners alongside key industry working groups. 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. 

This role will report into the Senior Director, Procurement - Global Strategic Programs who is part of Global Procurement Leadership Team and will act as an advisor directly to the Group Vice President, Global Procurement. The successful candidate will take along partner functions and suppliers and help enable Avery Dennison’s ESG and Sustainability Strategy. 

Critical Objectives:

• Sustainability: Enabling Avery Dennison’s Vision of: “Leading Forward in sustainability with Circular and Low Carbon portfolio, become Net Zero by 2050 and add Stakeholder Value.” by closely partnering with our supply base and driving projects in and around following strategies with the category communities in Films, Paper and Chemicals along with Indirect Services: 

• Win With a Circular and Low Carbon Products Portfolio: Partner with supplier base in findinging solutions that will enable recycling solutions across all packaging substrates, drive supplier innovation on driving recycled and renewable content into our products. Working with suppliers in eliminating the concerns around chemicals (Green Chemistry). 

• Drive Towards Net Zero Emission: Driving with the supplier base Scope III emissions reductions and setting and tracking holistic measurement. Enabling and driving supplier engagement for decarbonization, encouraging and following upon supplier’s strategic and long term approach to nature and water. 

• Engage Externally and Advocate: Lead by example by promoting and encouraging thought leadership around Sustainability. External engagement with industry associations to drive supplier centered initiatives and influencing policy makers in favor of the Pressure Sensitive Label Industry in this capacity. 

• Leverage Sustainability leadership to create value beyond converters: Boosting compelling value creation storytelling and engaging and educating value chain stakeholders to unlock growth. Train, coach and inspire Procurement as well as other functional communities to drive short, medium and long term projects that will enable value creation for all parties involved. 

• Enable People and Communities to thrive: Partnering with Avery Dennison’s Sustainability Council as well as external suppliers and stakeholders in defining norms around due diligence as well as compliance and traceability around global supply chains of our suppliers. 

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