Jobs at Avient Corporation

Perform analytical testing and material characterization of polymeric formulations using thermal, chromatographic, and spectroscopic techniques; interpret and correlate multi-technique data; prepare technical reports; maintain lab instruments and records; collaborate with R&D and global teams to support innovation and knowledge sharing; ensure lab safety and 5S practices.

Supports B2B product marketing, communications, content management, technical documentation, customer inquiries, events, campaigns, and commercial initiatives. Maintains website and social media content, coordinates product literature and presentations, manages marketing purchasing and invoices through enterprise systems, tracks budgets, and uses AI tools for content, research, analysis, and productivity. Partners with product management, sales, customer service, communications, and manufacturing teams.

Develops and closes new business through prospecting, strategic account development, relationship building, and solutions selling. Manages sales funnels, account plans, pricing, contracts, budgets, and margin targets. Identifies market opportunities, negotiates customer agreements, monitors competition, and coordinates with regional sales and technical teams. Influences decision-makers across customer organizations and supports profitable revenue growth within an assigned territory. Requires up to 75% travel.

Develops healthcare applications using engineered plastics and elastomers, translating customer needs into material, part design, tooling, processing, testing, and validation solutions. Supports projects from concept through launch, evaluates designs with CAE tools, troubleshoots processing and quality issues, creates technical documentation and training, and collaborates with commercial, product, manufacturing, technology, and quality teams. Requires up to 60% North American travel.

Develop and optimize TPE polymer formulations for customer applications across transportation, healthcare, consumer, industrial, and electronics markets. Evaluate raw materials, interpret thermal, mechanical, and rheological test data, troubleshoot quality and processing issues, and lead root cause analysis. Support customer trials, scale-up, extrusion settings, technical documentation, SAP material masters, BOMs, and commercialization. Collaborate with application engineering, sales, marketing, manufacturing, and quality teams.

Supervises and develops a technology team supporting polymer product and process development. Coordinates laboratory priorities, technical support, product and raw-material evaluations, customer inquiries, testing, documentation, and formulation development. Ensures products meet customer specifications, quality standards, profitability goals, and plant operational requirements. Leads training, safety, ISO compliance, technical problem-solving, and collaboration with sales, manufacturing, and customers.

Manage export shipments from U.S. and Latin American distribution centers and coordinate imports of raw materials into production sites. Responsibilities include creating shipments and delivery notes in SAP, coordinating carriers, warehouses, customs agents, and stakeholders, managing shipping documents, tracking deliveries, ensuring import/export compliance, escalating issues, following procedures, and supporting process improvements and knowledge transfer. The role works second shift and requires English and Spanish communication skills.

Designs, develops, and improves manufacturing processes, equipment, and facilities. Evaluates emerging technologies, conducts process characterization and optimization studies, and implements cost, quality, and efficiency improvements. Troubleshoots equipment and process issues, coordinates maintenance and production resources, supports new process installations, and participates in product design reviews. The role is based at a manufacturing plant and reports to the Plant Manager.

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.

Supports corporate sourcing through data analysis, process improvement, supplier communication, invoice issue resolution, sourcing system administration, purchasing process guidance, and Lean Six Sigma initiatives. Assists category managers and directors with category strategies, supplier performance measurement, reporting, testing, and related sourcing projects.

Manages engineering and capital projects for Dyneema fiber manufacturing, from initial design through commissioning. Oversees equipment upgrades, facilities and utility projects, budgets, schedules, contractors, safety, quality, and regulatory compliance. Analyzes manufacturing failures, develops process improvements, reduces costs and waste, prepares technical procedures, trains personnel, and supports operational excellence and SAP initiatives.

Supports plant manufacturing and technical operations by designing, optimizing, and improving manufacturing processes, equipment, and facilities. Responsibilities include process development, cost and quality improvement, design reviews, process characterization, troubleshooting, new process installations, and coordination with maintenance and production teams. The role requires on-site work, extended standing, and occasional weekend coverage in a manufacturing environment.

Develops healthcare-market business through prospecting, cold calling, strategic account development, solution selling, contract negotiation, and relationship management. Builds market and product strategies, identifies customer opportunities, coordinates global technical and commercial teams, manages sales plans and budgets, monitors competition, and delivers revenue and gross-margin targets. Requires extensive customer-facing sales experience in healthcare materials, medical devices, or contract manufacturing, plus frequent travel.

Investigates, contains, and recovers from confirmed security incidents. Performs technical analysis, digital forensics, threat analysis, evidence examination, malicious-code removal, and mitigation activities. Identifies threat actor techniques, expands protection coverage against MITRE ATT&CK techniques, and collaborates with technical teams, business users, and stakeholders. The role also supports cloud incident response, scripting automation, regulatory compliance, and custom security tool development.

Leads global digital infrastructure governance across Azure, datacenters, compute, storage, backup, Microsoft 365, and collaboration platforms. Manages technical teams, managed service providers, infrastructure strategy, modernization, budgets, vendor relationships, ITIL processes, disaster recovery, security controls, compliance, and Microsoft licensing. Oversees global infrastructure supporting manufacturing environments and drives automation, cloud cost optimization, reliability, and predictable service delivery.

Business Analyst gathers and analyzes data, optimizes processes using Lean Six Sigma, and develops Excel, Power BI, and Tableau dashboards. The role manages sales performance reporting, attrition and churn analysis, complaint tracking, CAPA initiatives, KPI reviews, and cross-functional governance. It provides actionable recommendations to leadership, improves operational efficiency and customer satisfaction, and ensures reporting accuracy and timely performance visibility.

Leads strategic business development and profitable revenue growth through prospecting, account planning, relationship building, solution selling, contract negotiation, forecasting, and margin management. Develops market and sales strategies, manages budgets, monitors competition, and coordinates cross-functional teams. May lead 3–5 sales professionals while coaching personnel and influencing stakeholders across customer and internal organizations. Requires up to 75% travel and expertise in polymer materials or a related field.

Manages strategic accounts and drives profitable revenue growth through prospecting, relationship development, solution selling, account planning, forecasting, contract negotiation, and competitive analysis. Develops sales and expense budgets, maintains CRM data, coordinates with technical and regional teams, and delivers annual operating plan results. The role requires independent work, influence across organizational levels, and up to 75% travel.

Develop profitable revenue growth across assigned strategic accounts through prospecting, relationship management, solution selling, contract negotiation, account planning, forecasting, and CRM management. The role requires independently managing sales plans, identifying new business opportunities, coordinating with technical and regional teams, monitoring competition, and achieving sales, margin, and volume objectives. Travel up to 75% is required.

Leads strategic product marketing, platform definition, product planning, launches, pricing, profitability, market analysis, and product performance. Partners with sales, research, manufacturing, distribution, customers, suppliers, and regional management to drive growth, margins, product availability, regulatory compliance, and customer support. Develops value propositions, marketing campaigns, technical materials, forecasts, strategic plans, and market measurement programs for assigned product lines.