Company Description**ABOUT AVERY DENNISON**:**ABOUT AVERY DENNISON SMARTRAC**: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. Integrated within the Intelligent Labels business, we view our combined potential as limitless. Collectively, our deep industry knowledge and expertise in technology and innovation, R&D, quality and service serve to drive RFID and technology adoption across multiple industries. By standing on the shoulders of today, we walk taller into tomorrow - and we take those steps together, as pioneers, in a future we may share and positively determine. And we want you to be part of our journey!**Job Description**:**ABOUT YOUR ROLE**:You will be a member of the fast-growing RFID business in Avery Dennison. You will be in the Global Supply Chain team, leading supply chain readiness of new programs, supporting supply activities, and taking up strategic initiatives to improve the planning process, ultimately supporting the growth and sustainability of the business. This role creates opportunities for individuals who are looking for a supply chain operational role but at the same time taking a step forward on strategic supply chain activity in a global environment.**YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES WILL INCLUDE**:- Analyzing the forecast from commercial and demand planning team, manage NPI/NPD activities, item-master and translate the forecast to operation sites for supply planning.- To develop and implement supply chain strategic initiatives to improve supply chain efficiency.- To oversee supply status (inventory, material and capacity) in the network to optimize and balance the working capital and service.- Managing supply chain readiness (material and capacity) of new programs and material transition, interfacing with operation sites, commercials, project management and product development team for implementation; signal critical risk to project team and management when required.- Providing operational resolution in case of supply service issue and report out to management.- Providing regular visibility and updates to stakeholders on supply chain performance.**Qualifications**:- Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain, Engineering or a related field.- Minimum 8 years of experience in a Supply Chain position; global/MNC firm is a plus.- Experience in production would be great but optional.- Leadership skills with the ability to lead cross-functional teams for assigned projects.- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.- Self-starter to work independently across functions and locations.- Capacity in building supply chain processes & models (e.g. capacity, inventory, etc.).- Strong numerical sense to comprehend data from multiple sources; adaptability to digital platform and tools.- ERP system experience is a plus (e.g. Oracle, etc.).- Good communicator to collaborate across a diverse global organization.- Good level of English fluency, both written and spoken.- Open to 25% occasional travel.Additional InformationAll your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
