Job Description

The VP, Procurement, Materials Group North America (MGNA) is responsible for setting the strategic direction of the Avery Dennison MGNA regional procurement team across our Materials Group that is comprised of Label and Packaging Materials, Graphics Solutions, Reflective Solutions, and Performance Tapes businesses, with a focus on ensuring competitiveness and value creation within the regional procurement spend. Reporting directly to the Group Vice President, Global Procurement for our Materials Group, they will build and maintain key relationships within the MGNA Leadership Team, and participate as a key member of the Global Materials Procurement Leadership Team. The successful candidate will lead across a highly sophisticated vendor and category base, ensuring a high level of cooperation with global teams to achieve efficient delivery; pricing, free cash flow, quality and service, sustainability and innovation.

Critical Objectives:

• Leadership Responsibility: Leading a regional team of approximately 25 employees supporting direct categories in papers, films and chemicals as well as various indirect spend categories for total regional spend of approximately $2.0BN.
• Supplier Relationship Management: Manage supplier relationships at a senior level, drive increased efficiency year over year, develop improved, repeatable processes within the purchasing group, drive excellence in functional execution and governance, and deliver the latest thinking and standard methodologies in the areas of strategic sourcing, cost modeling, supplier relationship development, and total cost of ownership.
• Strategy Building & Execution: With support from the Global Category Management Team as well as other cross functional partners, develop and implement long-term category strategies that are geared toward developing competitive advantage in materials.
• Competitiveness: Stay on the forefront of materials trends, crafting first mover advantages and delivering innovation, new materials and new suppliers to the business.
• Market Intelligence: Share market, competitive, geo-political intelligence on a regular basis in all aspects of the supply chain to enable the enterprise the necessary navigation.
• Supplier Selection: In accordance with the supplier segmentation, drive strategic actions with the supply base.
• Innovation through Cross Functional Collaboration: Work with marketing and R&D teams to determine future sourcing needs and develop sourcing plans to address the strategic direction of the business. Work with Business Unit leadership and Procurement teams to develop supplier innovation plans to extract maximum value from the supply base.
• Fundamentals: Ensure value stream analysis, supplier roadmaps and cost models are robust and complete for each category. Liaison with the other regional and the global procurement teams managing global supply risk and help identify and qualify new sources of supply that are aligned with the subcategory procurement strategy and the business strategy.
• Coaching & Mentoring: Act as a mentor to top talent within the procurement function and broader cross-functional leadership of the region
• Seat at the Table: Member of the Global Materials Procurement leadership team (GMPLT) and the Materials Group North America (MGNA) regional business leadership team
• Reporting Structure: Reports directly to Materials Group Vice President, Global Procurement, with a dotted line to the SVP for Materials Group NA

Skills & Capabilities

• Abilities: Excellent Strategy Building & Execution skills. Proven track record to operate with a Global Attitude. Outstanding Collaboration Skills with internal as well as external partners. Ability to compile, research, analyze information & to compose and present comprehensive reports. Demonstrated success in cross-regional projects or initiatives. Demonstrated ability to lead, support and conduct multi-layered, sophisticated negotiations.
• Approach: Optimistic & situational leader who will nurture a cohesive and united team and encourage them to reach newer heights. Collaborative mentality with every internal and external partner and ability to support and encourage peers as well as senior leadership team.
• Behavior: Be a true champion of Avery Dennison Core Values. Integrity, Courage, External Focus, Diversity, Sustainability, Innovation, Teamwork, Excellence.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required. Master’s Degree preferred.
• 15+ years purchasing or related experience with experience in strategic leadership, strategic sourcing, negotiation and commercial agreements.
• Experience with Paper, Films, Chemicals a major plus. Ability to lead indirect categories preferred.
• International Experience of leading global and regional teams.
• Proven results despite volatile market conditions and resilient performance.
• The role will require travel to various manufacturing sites, supplier sites, and customer sites across North America

This is a hybrid remote/in-office position based out of our Corporate Headquarters in Mentor, OH.

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Additional Information

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or other protected status. EEOE/M/F/Vet/Disabled. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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