Jobs at Avient Corporation

Responsible for growing profitable territory revenue through prospecting, cold calling, account development, forecasting, and closing new business. Manages current and prospective customer accounts, sales plans, budgets, CRM data, and channel relationships. Recommends appropriate product solutions and pricing, supports marketing activities and trade shows, and collaborates with technical and customer service teams. The role is an autonomous individual contributor requiring up to 75% travel.

Manages the plant-wide quality system, product testing, ISO compliance, process controls, documentation, audits, and corrective actions. Supervises quality engineers and laboratory personnel, oversees product grading and testing, investigates customer complaints, supports continuous improvement initiatives, and provides employee training. The role also communicates with customers and internal stakeholders, maintains quality procedures, and ensures manufacturing processes and products meet specified requirements.

Supervise intercompany reconciliations, monitor receivables, prepare EMEA invoices, post loan interest, payroll, and VAT entries, and complete balance sheet reconciliations. Support statutory and internal/external audits, regional initiatives, and ad hoc accounting projects while collaborating with Finance, Tax, Treasury, Legal, and Corporate Accounting teams. The role supports EMEA operations from Pune on a hybrid Europe-shift schedule.

Develops, optimizes, and supports polymer extrusion processes for wire, cable, and fiber products. Establishes operating parameters, troubleshoots quality and equipment issues, improves throughput, yield, scrap, uptime, and OEE, and supports process validation and scale-up. Collaborates with manufacturing, quality, maintenance, suppliers, sales, and customers on trials, qualifications, technical reviews, and continuous improvement. Requires hands-on polymer processing expertise and manufacturing-floor experience, with travel to suppliers, customers, and facilities as needed.

Leads global strategy and portfolio management for non-PFAS functional additives and CFA products. Responsibilities include market and competitive analysis, pricing and margin management, profitability tracking, product lifecycle planning, innovation pipeline coordination, new product introductions, customer and supplier engagement, technical support, regulatory alignment, and collaboration across Sales, Marketing, R&D, Supply Chain, Operations, and regional teams.

Manages HR programs, policies, benefits, payroll processes, recruitment, onboarding, employee relations, performance improvement, and leadership development for assigned business groups. Partners with managers and senior leaders on workforce planning, succession planning, conflict resolution, and high-potential employee development. Requires knowledge of Polish labor law, HRIS systems, performance management, and recruitment, along with fluency in Polish and English. The role includes regular visits to manufacturing plants.

Manage accounts receivable and credit control activities primarily for Turkey and other EMEA and LATAM countries. Responsibilities include collections, monitoring overdue invoices, managing blocked sales orders, reconciling customer accounts, applying cash, supporting billing and month-end activities, resolving credit open items, preparing reports, assisting audits and financial analysis, and supporting process improvement initiatives. The role partners with sales, finance, credit risk teams, and customers.

Participate in a 24-month rotational engineering development program across EMEA. Support CAPEX planning, budgeting, execution, equipment design and validation, automation and digitalization projects, technical requests, maintenance initiatives, CMMS standardization, spare-parts management, and data-management solutions. Gain exposure to production, technology, plant management, EH&S, and finance while visiting manufacturing sites and equipment suppliers abroad. The program concludes with placement in an engineering role in St Andreu, Barcelona.

Performs weigh-up, packaging, material processing, and machine setup duties in a manufacturing plant. Retrieves and verifies ingredients, operates production equipment, supports production operators, cleans machinery, completes required documentation, and follows safety and housekeeping procedures. The role requires physical labor, frequent lifting, use of personal protective equipment, and exposure to industrial machinery, dust, fumes, chemicals, and noise.

Supports supply chain execution across production scheduling, inventory management, materials flow, vendor coordination, logistics, and capacity planning. Maintains accurate production schedules and records in SAP, monitors slow-moving inventory, resolves material issues, and adjusts plans for backlogs, design changes, and shortages. Helps meet customer service and working capital targets while identifying SAP improvements for forecasting, reorder points, reporting, and operational efficiency.

Optimizes customer processes for Avient materials, provides customer education, designs tooling, performs flow modeling, troubleshoots application issues, resolves complaints, and develops testing plans for new applications and product launches. Analyzes testing data, documents product specifications, identifies customer technical requirements, and communicates results while working independently with minimal guidance.

Supports the Asia finance group through accounting, finance process analysis, digitalization, automation, data integration, and dashboard development. Collaborates with finance and IT teams to improve financial data flows, standardize processes, reduce costs, and enhance operational efficiency. Participates in accounting and costing rotations, finance training initiatives, and special projects.

Supports FP&A for Asian markets through forecasting, budgeting, management reporting, variance and profitability analysis, scenario modeling, and decision support. Maintains financial models, datasets, dashboards, controls, and reporting governance while identifying process improvements. The role analyzes pricing, margin, customer, product, and market performance; reconciles imperfect data; communicates business drivers; and coordinates planning inputs across multiple markets and stakeholders.

Develops customer-specific color formulas and samples across liquid, freeze-dried, and dry-color products. Uses SAP, color-computer systems, and other automated technologies to formulate, diagnose, and improve processes. Performs quality-control checks, documents formulations and paperwork, resolves customer issues, and ensures compliance with safety, environmental, housekeeping, and personal protective equipment requirements. The role requires independent work, color differentiation, and frequent standing and lifting.

Serves as the primary contact for assigned customer accounts, managing orders from entry through delivery and invoicing. Handles pricing, availability, order status, complaints, returns, credits, documentation, account updates, and customer inquiries. Coordinates with sales, production planning, logistics, technical services, shipping, and vendors to resolve issues and communicate changes. Maintains accurate account information, follows ISO procedures, uses system reports, supports inventory reduction, and provides account intelligence. This is an autonomous, on-site individual contributor role.

Supports daily Source to Pay finance operations, including invoice indexing and posting, document archiving, compliance with internal controls and legal requirements, and adherence to established processes and procedures. The role is designed for a finance, accounting, business administration, economics, or related student seeking practical experience in an international organization. Availability of approximately 120 hours per month is required.

Develop profitable revenue growth across strategic accounts through prospecting, relationship building, solution selling, account planning, contract negotiation, and sales forecasting. The role manages sales and expense plans, identifies new business opportunities, monitors competition, maintains CRM data, and collaborates with regional and technical teams. Extensive travel of up to 75% is required, along with independent execution and industry expertise in plastics, packaging, or related materials.

The Senior Specialist oversees month-end close processes, accrual accounting, posting journal entries, account reconciliations, variance analysis, audit support, and intercompany reconciliations for US and Canadian entities.

Leads monthly close, statutory reporting, balance sheet reconciliations, tax provisions, VAT returns, Intrastat and national statistics reporting. Supports audits, financial controls, process improvements, regional initiatives, and cross-functional projects across several European countries. Collaborates with Finance, Tax, Treasury, Legal, Corporate Accounting, and external providers while ensuring compliance with accounting policies and regulations.

Lead HR strategy and execution across multiple manufacturing sites in the US and Canada. Responsibilities include workforce planning, organizational design, succession planning, recruiting, retention, employee relations, performance management, policy compliance, HR metrics, employee engagement, change initiatives, and advising operational leaders on complex people decisions.