Senior Manager, Procurement

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 35,000 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
• Flexible work arrangements
• Employee Assistance Program eligibility / Health Advocate
• Paid vacation and Paid holidays

Job Description

The Senior Manager - Procurement, Strategic Programs will be responsible for execution of Global Procurement initiatives that align with Avery Dennison’s Plan to Win. This role will be a strategic enabler to the global procurement function, implementing industry best practices, driving execution of strategic initiatives and governance.

Our global Materials Group comprises Label and Packaging Materials, Graphics Solutions, Reflective Solutions, and Performance Tapes businesses and this role will seamlessly support the collaborative efforts across those respective businesses.  Reporting directly to the Senior Director, Strategic Programs and Operational Excellence, this role will enable execution of the functional strategies developed by the Global Materials Procurement Leadership Team (GMPLT)

The successful candidate will lead execution of highly complex global programs to achieve desired outcomes that truly position procurement as a value creator vs. just being a cost cutter. 

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.

Critical Objectives:

• Leadership Responsibility: Leading critical strategic programs for global procurement that have direct impact on Avery Dennison’s Plan to Win. Influence others within procurement and partnering functions. 

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

  • Advantage Supplier Program: Refine and execute upon the Advantage Supplier Program framework that has been recently established through our category and supplier segmentation activity and accelerate the supplier partnerships that are critical to our success. Set up the program and governance drive progress on the fronts of competitiveness, delivery, quality, reliability, supplier innovation and sustainability with the help and contributions from GMPLT. Establish an infrastructure for such supplier interactions in partnership with Global Category Leaders to conduct quarterly business reviews that will drive a cross functional collaboration with our partners.

  • Tail Spend Management Program: Design, structure and partner with internal as well as supplier partners in driving successful tail rationalization and spend tightening across our global spend and fragmented supply chain.

  • Supplier Driven Innovation: Implement a structured way of inviting supplier driven innovation and exclusivity ideas which will enable introduction and evolution of latest technology and new ideas. In conjunction with our Marketing, R&D, and GMPLT, enable Supplier Innovation Day and create a formal structure in recog