Jobs at Avient Corporation

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.

Two-year rotational finance program involving three to four assignments across accounting, audit, tax, treasury, mergers and acquisitions, FP&A, cost accounting, and financial reporting. Responsibilities include supporting financial analysis, accounting processes, closings, forecasts, budgeting, internal audits, and cross-functional projects while building relationships with global teams. Participants receive development and feedback before placement into a permanent finance role aligned with their goals and business needs.

Summer MBA intern supporting Operational Excellence projects across operations and supply chain. Responsibilities include leading or participating in cross-functional teams, analyzing business cases and data, recommending improvements, developing internal processes, establishing operational metrics, and supporting implementation of sustainable improvements. The role provides Lean Six Sigma exposure, coaching, and interaction with senior management, with potential progression to Avient’s Operational Excellence Leadership Development Program.

Two-year rotational leadership development program for Ph.D. graduates across Avient R&D teams. Responsibilities include developing polymer formulations and processes, conducting experimental design, product testing, data analysis, literature and patent searches, quality-control development, and technical reporting. The associate will collaborate with manufacturing, marketing, sales, and cross-functional business teams while building Lean Six Sigma, technical, project-management, and leadership capabilities.

Supports the HR team through projects across talent acquisition, talent development, compensation and benefits, and HRIS. Gains exposure to domestic and international HR operations, contributes to process improvements and initiatives, presents internship findings to leadership, and collaborates with HR centers of expertise and business partners.

Performs entry-level manufacturing duties including ingredient weigh-up, batch processing, packaging, material handling, machine setup and operation, cleaning, documentation, and quality and safety compliance. Supports Production Operators by supplying materials and maintaining equipment operation. The role requires standing, physical movement, occasional lifting up to 50 pounds, working in noisy and variable environmental conditions, and using required protective equipment.

Summer finance internship supporting corporate finance, audit, accounting, tax, treasury, M&A, FP&A, cost accounting, and financial reporting activities. Responsibilities include financial analysis, general and cost accounting, monthly and quarterly close processes, projections, forecasting, issue resolution, and collaboration with analysts, directors, and senior management across global operations.

Operates and monitors manufacturing machinery for mixing, extrusion, material handling, and production processing. Weighs and loads ingredients, verifies materials against quality standards, troubleshoots equipment issues, collects samples, performs machine cleaning, maintains production records, and follows safety, environmental, housekeeping, and ISO procedures. The role requires physical handling of materials and frequent use of personal protective equipment in a manufacturing plant.

Process and audit carrier and freight payment invoices, reconcile daily financial data, manage freight pay and SAP postings, collaborate with Finance/AP and 3PL partners, investigate process gaps, support audits, and drive improvements to meet logistics KPIs.

Support color development and material data management for plastics: handle technical requests, maintain raw material and formula BOM records, prepare color illustrations and samples, run product launch testing, analyze results, and build expertise in color matching, pigments, and related software.