IT Business Analyst

Company Description

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.

At Avery Dennison, some of the great benefits we provide are:

• Health & Wellness benefits starting on day 1 of employment
• Paid parental leave
• 401K eligibility
• Tuition reimbursement
• Employee Assistance Program eligibility / Health Advocate
• Paid vacation and Paid holidays

Job Description

Avery Dennison is seeking an experienced IT Business Analyst with strong Legal and technology expertise. As a member of the IT organization, you will work closely with the legal operations function in order to understand their business challenges, technology roadmap priorities, and define requirements for scalable solutions.

This role will require you to have strong experience with IT business analysis, project management, and stakeholder management. While this role will reside in the IT organization, the individual will partner closely with various teams including Legal, Enterprise Architecture, Sourcing and Finance among other functions to ensure solutions and systems are solving for a strong end-to-end experience.

Responsibilities:

• Close collaboration with the Legal function in order to enable productivity, efficiency and business growth through digital solutions

• Establish and maintain a strong working relationship with key business partners, process owners and superusers to support them to improve their business performance

• Ability to understand and articulate business needs, complexities and impacts, both within the legal function, and throughout end-to-end legal processes

• Conduct detailed analyses to identify gaps or opportunities, translate these into business requirements and then into technical requirements and support the design and implementation of IT system changes in line with the overall IT strategy

• For smaller scale projects, you will be expected to manage the scope of the project, deliverables, budget and timelines, as well as regularly communicating status updates to clients regarding the project's progress

• Drive ongoing system improvements and user adoption in close collaboration with the legal function process owners

• Drive innovation by identifying and presenting new opportunities by using existing or new technologies

• Drive continuous improvement of our IT practices, procedures and supporting tools

• Take the lead on ensuring all issues with any legal technologies (both IT supported and vendor managed) are resolved timely

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in a technical, quantitative, or analytical subject area. Or, work experience or advanced coursework demonstrating technical and analytical ability.

• 4+ years of relevant experience in an IT Business Analyst or IT Consultant role, preferably within a manufacturing industry

• Previous experience with systems supporting corporate legal processes (e.g. contract lifecycle management, contracts and NDA, IP management, knowledge management and eBilling) is preferred

• Strong organization and project/program management skills

• Extensive experience in gathering business requirements, functional requirements and technical requirements necessary for appropriately scoping a project

• Capable of working cross functionally to understand business processes

• Experience implementing enterprise software solutions

• Demonstrate a strong partnership approach, by effectively collaborating and communicating with clients across the organization

• Experience using data to back decisions and has strong storytelling abilities using data and metrics

• Experience working in a global organization across multiple regions and time zones

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