Project Manager, RFID Logistics

Company Description

About Avery Dennison

Avery Dennison Corporation (NYSE: AVY) is a global materials science and digital identification solutions company that provides branding and information labeling solutions, including pressure-sensitive materials, radio-frequency identification (RFID) inlays and tags, and a variety of converted products and solutions. The company designs and manufactures a wide range of labeling and functional materials that enhance branded packaging, carry or display information that connects the physical and the digital, and improve customers’ product performance. The company serves an array of industries worldwide, including home and personal care, apparel, e-commerce, logistics, food and grocery, pharmaceuticals and automotive. The company employs approximately 36,000 employees in more than 50 countries. Reported sales in 2022 were $9.0 billion. Learn more at www.averydennison.com.

Built on a legacy of innovation and materials science, Avery Dennison has embarked on a new era of opportunity. This is an opportunity to take the functional and traditional label and enable it with digital technologies that can give every item a unique digital identity and digital life.

This “intelligence applied” technology has the capability to enable a world of connected everything. A world where the 'who, what and where' of every physical, become points of irrefutable fact and absolute visibility. Provenance, authenticity, sourcing, history, real-time location; guaranteed for businesses and consumers throughout the entire supply chain and all the way to the home. At its most simple, a company with a legacy in “making labels” becomes a category-leading technology company making the Internet of Things a positive, transformative, world-wide reality for all of us. The label has always told us something about the product. Now it can tell us everything.

In February 2020, Avery Dennison acquired Smartrac, a leading manufacturer of RFID products. Combined with the Intelligent Labels business, we will leverage our deep industry knowledge and know-how in technology and innovation, R&D, quality and service to drive RFID and technology adoption across multiple industries. And we want you to be part of our journey!

Job Description

The Avery Dennison Smartrac (ADS) Project Manager is responsible for leading cross-functional teams toward implementing Avery Dennison Compliance, Inventory Accuracy, and Digital Identity solutions.  The ADS Project Manager will work closely with internal stakeholders such as IT, Product and Market Development, Supply Chain, and Sales and will also have external contact with customers.  Primary responsibilities include project planning and documentation, meeting facilitation, follow-up, and communication.  The ADS Project Manager is accountable for the overall delivery of the project plan and will work with various levels of the organization to ensure timelines are met, risks are mitigated, and the overall success and customer satisfaction of the project.

• Responsible for all aspects of the development and implementation of assigned projects for Avery Dennison’s Solutions across multiple industry segments (Food, Logistics)
• Works with management teams to translate strategic objectives into executable projects, and to develop plans for achieving stated objectives. 
• Provides executives with project risk assessments and summary-level project status reports.
• Strategize with the project team to forecast problems, assess potential risks and solutions, and plan alternatives. 
• Develops detailed work plans, schedules, project estimates, forecasts, and status reports.
• Conducts project meetings and is responsible for project tracking and analysis.
• Leads the rapid and flawless execution of high-profile cross-functional projects.
• Help infuse process discipline, systems thinking, and critical tools deep into the organization, enhancing the company’s capacity for effective & efficient project management.
• Serve as an “air traffic control” capacity, Project Managers will provide overarching facilitation for all aspects of the business’s RBIS highest-priority projects.
• Create detailed project plans that explicitly align the efforts of multiple functional specialties (e.g. Sales, Marketing, R&D, Supply Chain, Finance, and IT)
• Leverage methods & tools to accelerate project timelines, encourage cross-functional collaboration, and build quality into projects from the outset.
• Identify and resolve issues proactively and creatively balance schedule, scope, and cost constraints.
• Manage interpersonal dynamics within global project teams (e.g., building consensus among sub-project owners, negotiating any changes to the project plan, and holding team members accountable for the delivery of commitments made).
• Ensure teams