New post IT Strategic Initiatives Leader

Job Description

Exciting new role in dynamic IT organization to drive strategic initiatives that will help shape the future of the company! DESCRIPTION: Avient Corporation (NYSE: AVNT), with 2021 revenues of $4.8 billion, provides specialized and sustainable material solutions that transform customer challenges into opportunities, bringing new products to life for a better world. Examples include:
• Barrier technologies that preserve the shelf-life and quality of food, beverages, medicine and other perishable goods through high-performance materials
• Light-weighting solutions that replace heavier traditional materials which can improve fuel efficiency in all modes of transportation
• Breakthrough technologies that minimize wastewater and improve the recyclability of materials and packaging across a spectrum of end uses
Avient employs approximately 8,400 associates and is certified ACC Responsible Care , a founding member of the Alliance to End Plastic Waste and certified Great Place to Work . For more information, visit www.avient.com . Job Summary The IT Strategic Initiatives Leader is a newly created role that will provide focus on key initiatives and projects that will accelerate the progression of the strategic vision of the IT function. This role can be located anywhere in the world.This individual will leverage teams across the organization to drive meaningful, strategic projects. The first initiative is to assess the current state of where work is done and how to best leverage resources around the globe in anticipation of an S/4 Hana project scheduled to kick off in 2022. Working with the IT leadership Team, our goal is to accelerate deployment with hiring additional resources internally and shifting work accordingly. This leader will create the vision and steps required in addition developing the buy-in required for such change. This leader will need to quickly earn the trust of the team in order to be effective.
• Leads key initiatives to enable a world class information technology function
• Brings diverse perspectives to challenge current processes, strategies, structures and initiatives
• Possesses knowledge from large multi-national companies that can inform the path of future projects
• Has specific experience leveraging a global workforce
• Drives change with thoughtful consideration of the organization while balancing the need to achieve meaningful results timely
• Able to distill technical concepts and complex plans into executive level communications
• Tailors messages, as appropriate, to different levels of the organization to enable change efficiently and effectively
• Collaborates with all relevant stakeholders and welcomes feedback and historic perspectives
• Ensures that as we scale we stay true to our values and differentiators of customer success, agility, and innovation
• Self-starts initiatives with minimal guidance
• Communicates frequently and crisply
• Ability to engage key business stakeholders to include critical customer requirements in Strategic Design
• Ability to travel to corporate headquarters at least several times per year and locations throughout the globe as needed
• Other duties as assigned *LI-CB1 *LI-Hybrdi
QUALIFICATIONS: Education and Experience
• 10+ years of experience working and influencing cross-functionally, globally and with senior leaders in a matrix organization
• Bachelor s degree required
• Experience leading and influencing others to meet goals, objectives, and project milestones
• Working experience leading organizational initiatives, such program implementations, process improvements, procedural changes, with a focus on change management
• Five or more years of experience supporting enterprise-wide initiatives as a leader
Competencies Each position at Avient focuses on Core Competencies with this role having additional competencies as a Leader of the Business. These competencies are designed to drive behavior that will ultimately help our associates excel at their current roles, while supporting individual and career development.
• Global Perspective - Taking a broad view when approaching issues, using a global lens and leveraging partnerships and organizational savvy to influence
• Cultivates Innovation - Creating new and better ways for the organization to be successful
• Strategic Mindset - Seeing ahead to future possibilities and translating them into breakthrough strategies
Physical Demands The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Ability to speak/hear clearly to communicate by phone or in person.
• Ability to frequently stand, sit and walk.
• Ability to frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.
• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
WHY AVIENT: At Avient, we strive for a culture of trust and engagement. Our associates are leading company initiatives such as Lead by Women, HYPE (Harnessing Young Professionals), Pride at Avient and Embrace to advance diversity in professional and personal development. We also provide our associates with robust development programs such as Avient Academy, Lean Six Sigma, and various leadership workshops to allow for career growth in a variety of ways. With workplace flexibility, health and wellness programs, casual dress days, and paid time off for community service, we are committed to building upon our positive momentum.At Avient, we believe diversity of 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 in hiring, promotion, development, compensation and advancement are based upon non-discriminatory factors such as, for example, qualifications, abilities, experience, and performance.Avient Corporation is a drug free workplace. 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.,

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