IT Business Analyst (Legal)

Company Description

Avery Dennison Corporation (NYSE: AVY) is a global materials science and digital identification solutions company that provides a wide range of branding and information solutions that optimize labor and supply chain efficiency, reduce waste, advance sustainability, circularity and transparency, and better connect brands and consumers. Our products and solutions include labeling and functional materials, radio frequency identification (RFID) inlays and tags, software applications that connect the physical and digital, and a variety of products and solutions that enhance branded packaging and carry or display information that improves the customer experience. Serving an array of industries worldwide — including home and personal care, apparel, general retail, e-commerce, logistics, food and grocery, pharmaceuticals and automotive — we employ approximately 35,000 employees in more than 50 countries. Our reported sales in 2023 were $8.4 billion. Learn more at www.averydennison.com.

Job Description

Avery Dennison is seeking an experienced IT Business Analyst with strong Legal and technology expertise. As a member of the IT organization, you will work closely with the legal operations function in order to understand their business challenges, technology roadmap priorities, and define requirements for scalable solutions.

This role will require you to have strong experience with IT business analysis, project management, and stakeholder management. While this role will reside in the IT organization, the individual will partner closely with various teams including Legal, Enterprise Architecture, Sourcing and Finance among other functions to ensure solutions and systems are solving for a strong end-to-end experience.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate closely with various departments, particularly Legal, to enhance productivity and business growth through digital solutions.

• Build and maintain strong relationships with business partners, process owners, and key users to help improve their business performance.

• Understand and communicate business needs, challenges, and impacts, particularly within end-to-end business processes.

• Conduct thorough analyses to identify gaps or opportunities, translate them into business and technical requirements, and support the design and implementation of IT system changes aligned with overall IT strategy.

• For smaller projects, manage project scope, deliverables, budget, and timelines, while providing regular progress updates to stakeholders.

• Lead system improvements and drive user adoption through close collaboration with process owners.

• Promote innovation by identifying and presenting new technology opportunities.

• Drive the continuous improvement of IT practices, processes, and tools.

• Ensure timely resolution of issues related to both internally supported and vendor-managed technologies.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in a technical, quantitative, or analytical subject area. Or, work experience or advanced coursework demonstrating technical and analytical ability.

• 4+ years of relevant experience in an IT Business Analyst or IT Consultant role, preferably within a manufacturing industry

• Previous experience with systems supporting corporate legal processes (e.g. contract lifecycle management, contracts and NDA, IP management, knowledge management and eBilling) is preferred

• Strong organization and project/program management skills

• Extensive experience in gathering business requirements, functional requirements and technical requirements necessary for appropriately scoping a project

• Capable of working cross functionally to understand business processes

• Experience implementing enterprise software solutions

• Demonstrate a strong partnership approach, by effectively collaborating and communicating with clients across the organization

• Experience using data to back decisions and has strong storytelling abilities using data and metrics

• Experience working in a global organization across multiple regions and time zones

• Be able to translate business requirements into technical specifications

Additional Information

The hiring base salary range above represents what Avery Dennison reasonably expects to pay for this position as of the date of this posting. Actual salaries will vary within the range, and in some circumstances may be above or below the range, based on various factors including but not limited to a candidate’s relevant skills, experience, education and training, and location, as well as the job scope and complexity, responsibilities, and regular and/or necessary travel required for the position, which may change depending on the candidate pool. Avery Dennison reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law. 

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, protected veteran status or other protected status. EEOE/M/F/Vet/Disabled. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.