Manager, Plant Supply Chain

About Us

Our purpose at Avient Corporation is to be an innovator of materials solutions that help our customers succeed, while enabling a sustainable world.

Innovation goes far beyond materials science; it’s powered by the passion, creativity, and diverse expertise of 9,000 professionals worldwide. Whether you’re a finance wizard, a tech enthusiast, an operational powerhouse, an HR changemaker, or a trailblazer in materials development, you’ll find your place at Avient.

Join our global team and help shape the future with sustainable solutions that transform possibilities into realities. Your unique perspective could be the key to our next breakthrough!

Job Summary

Ensure demand planning and coordination of internal resources to deliver on-time-in-full according to customer needs. Standardize and optimize processes and procedures for efficient and high-quality customer service. Ensure inventories management and payables target delivery.

Drive cross-cultural communication to effective supply chain collaboration.

Essential Functions

Drive cross-function teams to optimize the organization by identifying efficiency issue, developing solution and implementing changes

Cost management, realizing required performance with agreed budgets, and optimize inventory

Monitor Stock Aging Status, control NWSM and inventory to support operating cash flow

Co-work with sales to manage forecast, order fulfillment and delivery commitment

Coordinate with functional teams, including sourcing team, production controller, product owner for smooth delivery and LT optimization

Establish SCM Community & Create a Great Place to Work

Support export logistic arrangement to ensure on-time delivery

Control export freight cost and ensure logistic complaint handling speed and high service level.

Support ISO audit, Recycle System certificate, global system maintains and relevant report, surveys and assessments

Support Overall Business: Report simplification to improve working efficiency, including NWSM, safety stock, sale

Other projects/duties as assigned.

Education and Experience Qualifications

Bachelors Degree or Equivalent Experience

Cross Functional - Budget Management

Cross Functional - Leadership Experience

Cross Functional - Cost Management

Manufacturing - Manufacturing Operations

Cross Functional - Problem Solving Techniques

Cross Functional - Managing Direct Reports

Cross Functional - Manufacturing Industry

Additional Qualifications

As a supply chain manager, managing customer service, planning, and procurement requires a diverse set of skills. It’s preferring to have key qualifications:

Leadership Skills: Effective leadership is essential as you need to manage diverse teams

Data-Driven Decision Making: To requires real-time insights to optimize demand forecasting, inventory planning, and logistics.

Risk Mitigation Skills: Supply chains face continuous disruptions from geopolitical tensions, natural disasters, and supplier failures. Supply chain managers need to develop multi-layered contingency plans and use scenario planning to prepare for potential risks.

Communication Skills: Effective communication is crucial for streamlining processes and fostering collaboration. This includes clear interactions with internal teams and external suppliers.

Problem-Solving Abilities: Involves complex processes, and the ability to quickly and effectively resolve issues is key to success.

Technological Adaptability: With rapid technological advancements, it’s necessary to adapt and adopt new technologies to enhance efficiency.

Negotiation Skills: Strong negotiation skills are beneficial in the procurement process to secure better terms and prices.

Competencies

Software Skills - Microsoft Outlook

Software Skills - Microsoft Word

Software Skills - Microsoft Excel

Software Skills - SAP

Personal Skills - Stress Management

Personal Skills - Statistical Skills

Personal Skills - Reading/Comprehension

Software Skills - Inventory/Purchasing Systems

Personal Skills - Self Motivated

Personal Skills - Analytical Skills

Personal Skills - Time/Priority Management

Personal Skills - Work on a Team

Personal Skills - Organizational Skills

Personal Skills - Conflict Resolution Skills

Avient Leadership Behaviors

We believe that all of our global employees are leaders and that the six most important behaviors for driving our strategy and culture are the same no matter if an employee is a leader of self, a leader of others, or a leader of the business.

By playing to win, acting customer centric, driving innovation and profitable growth, collaborating seamlessly across Avient, and motivating and inspiring and developing others and yourself you will accelerate your ability to achieve Avient’s strategic goals, to meet our customer needs, and to accomplish your career goals.

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