Procurement Manager, Paper NA

Avery Dennison•Mentor, OH

8h•$107,000 - $143,000•Onsite

About The Position

Avery Dennison Materials Group North America is composed of 4 main businesses; Label and Packaging Materials, Graphics Solutions, Reflective Solutions, and the Performance Tapes businesses. The Global Procurement function at Avery Dennison is evolving to become a Value Creator function. Our Vision: To create holistic 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. We are committed to positioning Procurement as a competitive advantage for our enterprise and are driving a 5 year transformation journey through Project Nova. We are currently in Year 3 of Nova. Our focus remains on uplifting our Performance, Processes, Programs and our People. We are seeking a Procurement Manager - Paper to join our North America Team The Procurement Manager, Paper is responsible for setting and implementing the procurement strategy for the Paper category in North America. The role will focus on ensuring competitiveness and value creation within the regional procurement spend while driving the 5 levers strategic plan that will enable spend and category optimization. This position will be based out of Avery Dennison’s corporate headquarters in Mentor, Ohio and reports directly to Sr. Procurement Manager of Paper and Freight.

Requirements

Experience: 8+ years of purchasing or related experience in a complex manufacturing environment. Prior experience in Direct Materials or the Paper/Forest Products industry is highly preferred.
Leadership: Proven experience in supervision and leading cross-functional projects.
Business Acumen & Influence: Strong business acumen with the ability to "sell" procurement strategies internally to commercial and operational leaders, ensuring buy-in for regional initiatives.
Negotiation Mastery: Expert knowledge in negotiating and developing contracts, including multi-year agreements and risk-mitigation clauses.
Technical Mindset: Proficiency in digital procurement tools (e.g., Ariba) and a data-driven approach to decision-making.
Communication: Excellent presentation and oral/written communication skills; ability to distill complex market data for executive consumption.
Education: Bachelor’s degree required (Business, Supply Chain Management, Operations, or Engineering).
Travel: Ability to travel domestically and internationally as needed (< 10%)

Responsibilities

Commodity Leverage: Effectively leverage Avery Dennison’s collective commodity spend across divisions to maximize negotiation power and supply security.
Nova Alignment: Lead and implement Project Nova initiatives, ensuring the Paper category aligns with our Avery Dennison "Plan to Win" and Global Material our Material Groups Global Strategy and the 5 Levers Strategic Plan.
Supplier Relationship Management: Manage supplier relationships and drive necessary quarterly business reviews driving holistic performance conversations.
Financial Performance & Cost-Out: Lead regional material cost-out projects and continuously identify new raw material savings opportunities to improve the P&L, deliver cost modeling and value stream analysis to identify savings and improve total cost of ownership (TCO).
Strategy & Execution: With support from the Global & Regional Procurement Team as well as other cross functional partners, develop and implement long-term strategies that are geared toward developing competitive advantage in materials and reducing supply base risk.
Creating Differentiation: Stay on the leading-edge of materials trends, creating first mover advantages and delivering innovation, new materials and new suppliers to the business.
Provide Market Intelligence & enable actions: Share market, competitive, geo-political intelligence on a regular basis in all aspects of the supply chain to enable the enterprise the necessary navigation.
Drive Sustainability & Innovation: Work with Marketing, R&D and the greater Procurement team to determine future sourcing needs to extract maximum value from the supply base and develop sourcing plans to address the future direction of the business.
Drive Fundamentals: Ensure value stream analysis, supplier roadmaps and cost models are robust and complete for the 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.