Director, Investor Relations

Avient is seeking a strategic, business-minded, and externally focused Director of Investor Relations to join our team. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape and elevate how we communicate Avient’s strategy, financial performance, and long-term value creation story to the investment community.

Our leaders are instrumental in driving Avient’s success by aligning strategy, execution, and stakeholder engagement. The Director of Investor Relations is a trusted advisor to senior executives, providing insights into market perception, investor sentiment, and industry dynamics. This role ensures our external messaging is clear, consistent, and compelling—supporting strong relationships with investors, analysts, and other key stakeholders while reinforcing confidence in our long-term strategy. Reporting directly to the Chief Financial Officer, this role partners closely with Finance, Legal, Communications, and business/functional leaders, and serves as a key interface with the CEO, Operating Council, and Board as needed. This leader will have primary responsibility for developing and executing Avient’s investor relations strategy, leading the quarterly earnings process, managing investor and analyst engagement, and providing market intelligence to inform executive decision-making. Balancing financial rigor, strategic storytelling, and regulatory compliance will be critical to success in this role.

The ideal candidate is a collaborative, insight-driven, and highly credible leader with strong financial acumen and exceptional communication skills. They will have a proven ability to synthesize complex financial and operational information into relevant messaging, understand dynamic market conditions and the broader impact on the business, and build trusted relationships with both internal and external stakeholders. This individual will also bring a proactive, forward-looking mindset to continuously enhance Avient’s investor engagement approach.

• Serves as a trusted advisor to the CFO, CEO, and senior leadership, providing insights on investor sentiment, market trends, valuation drivers, and industry trends to inform strategic decisions.

• Leads the development and execution of Avient’s investor relations strategy, ensuring alignment with the company’s business priorities, financial performance, and long-term growth objectives.

• Develops and communicates a clear, compelling, and consistent messaging that resonates with the investment community and accurately reflects Avient’s strategy and value creation drivers.

• Owns the quarterly earnings process from an investor relations perspective, including preparation of earnings scripts, presentations, and Q&A materials in partnership with Finance and executive leadership.

• Supports executive leadership in investor meetings, conferences, and non-deal roadshows, providing preparation, coaching, and follow-up to ensure effective engagement.

• Builds and maintains strong relationships with institutional investors, equity analysts, and rating agencies, ensuring timely, accurate, and thoughtful responses to inquiries.

• Monitors and analyzes market activity, peer performance, analyst models, and shareholder composition, translating insights into actionable recommendations for leadership.

• Ensures all investor communications adhere to SEC regulations, Reg FD, and company disclosure policies in close partnership with Legal.

• Collaborates cross-functionally with Finance, Communications, Legal, and business/functional leaders to ensure alignment of messaging across earnings materials, investor presentations, annual reports, and other disclosures.

• Leads preparation of investor-facing materials, including investor presentations, conference materials, and investor day content, ensuring consistency and clarity of messaging.

• Supports strategic initiatives such as M&A, capital allocation updates, and ESG communications from an investor messaging and engagement perspective.

• Continuously enhances investor relations processes, tools, and engagement approaches to improve effectiveness, efficiency, and overall market impact.

• Performs other strategic projects and responsibilities as required to support the evolving needs of the business and the Finance function.

• Embraces the role of a change agent, actively modeling Avient Leadership Behaviors while shaping and strengthening how the company engages with the investment community. Coaches and influences stakeholders to ensure consistent, high-quality external messaging aligned with business strategy.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, accounting, business, or related field or equivalent experience; MBA, CFA, or equivalent advanced degree preferred.

• Minimum of 8+ years of progressive experience in investor relations, corporate finance, equity research, or investment banking, with a strong understanding of capital markets.

• Experience in a publicly traded company and / or global manufacturing or similarly complex, matrixed industry strongly preferred.

• Strong financial acumen, including deep understanding of financial statements, valuation methodologies, and key performance drivers.

• Exceptional communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to translate complex financial information into clear, concise, and compelling messages for external audiences.

• Strong executive presence and ability to effectively engage with senior leadership, Board members, and external stakeholders.

• Ability to work as part of a team with excellent collaboration skills across functions and with business partners.

• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision, managing multiple priorities with strong organizational and time management skills.

• Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to navigate ambiguity and synthesize information into actionable insights.

• High level of integrity, sound judgment, and ability to manage sensitive and confidential information appropriately.

• Strong analytical capabilities with experience leveraging data to provide insights and inform decision-making.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel and PowerPoint; experience with investor relations tools and financial data platforms preferred.

Our purpose at Avient Corporation is to be an innovator of materials solutions that help our customers succeed, while enabling a sustainable world.

Innovation goes far beyond materials science; it’s powered by the passion, creativity, and diverse expertise of 9,000 professionals worldwide. Whether you’re a finance wizard, a tech enthusiast, an operational powerhouse, an HR changemaker, or a trailblazer in materials development, you’ll find your place at Avient.

Join our global team and help shape the future with sustainable solutions that transform possibilities into realities. Your unique perspective could be the key to our next breakthrough!

We believe that all of our global employees are leaders and that the six most important behaviors for driving our strategy and culture are the same no matter if an employee is a leader of self, a leader of others, or a leader of the business.

By playing to win, acting customer centric, driving innovation and profitable growth, collaborating seamlessly across Avient, and motivating and inspiring and developing others and yourself you will accelerate your ability to achieve Avient’s strategic goals, to meet our customer needs, and to accomplish your career goals.

At Avient, we believe a wide variety of thoughts, ideas and backgrounds gives us the creativity to be successful in a rapidly changing world.  In support of this, we stress equality of opportunity for all qualified individuals in accordance with applicable laws. Decisions on hiring, promotion, development, compensation or advancement are based solely on a person’s qualifications, abilities, experience and performance.

Avient is an equal opportunity employer. We maintain a policy of non-discrimination in providing equal employment to all qualified employees and candidates regardless of race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, color, religion, national origin, disability, genetic information, protected veteran’s status, or other legally protected classification in accordance with applicable federal, state and local law. If you need an accommodation because of a disability to complete an online application, please contact the Avient HR Team by emailing, [email protected].