Global Project Manager

  • Full-time

Company Description

Avery Dennison Corporation (NYSE: AVY) is a global materials science company specializing in the design and manufacture of a wide variety of labeling and functional materials. The company’s products, which are used in nearly every major industry, include pressure-sensitive materials for labels and graphic applications; tapes and other bonding solutions for industrial, medical, and retail applications; tags, labels and embellishments for apparel; and radio frequency identification (RFID) solutions serving retail apparel and other markets. Headquartered in Glendale, California, the company employs more than 35,000 employees in more than 50 countries. Reported sales in 2021 were $8.4 billion. Learn more at www.averydennison.com.

Avery Dennison is an equal opportunity employer.

Job Description

OVERALL PURPOSE OF THE ROLE:

Play a leadership role to manage the system implementation projects, including project planning, budgeting, horizontal and vertical coordination, execution, deployment, control and completion of the project to ensure consistency with company strategy, commitments and goals, and a highly efficient development/deployment process. ERP global implementation will be the key focus area.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES WILL INCLUDE:

Global project management (major focus on ERP global implementation)

  • Act as Business PM to work with IT as business partners for system implementation projects like ERP/MES/IOT.

  • Monitor project progress, track on time completion of project tasks/ deliverables. 

  • Risk Management, proactively work with project team and business stakeholders to assess risks and take mitigation actions to ensure smooth implementation.  Understanding issues and driving problem solving across functions.

  • Lead project team to document all business requirements and process flows for implementation.

  • Lead project team to plan and execute testing and go live plans according to project timeline.

  • Monitor project budget and make sure project expenses are within plan.

  • Regular project updates to stakeholders in the globe.

Communication and Team Influence

  • Lead different business functions, including Commercial, Global Program Deployment, Customer Service, Supply Chain, and Operations across the globe for project plans, budget plan, resource plan, action plans with clear R&R, driving execution and on time completion of the project.

  • Lead regular progress review with project team; obtain leadership support as needed, regular project update to project leadership and steering committee.

  • Collaborate with key stakeholders for Change Management, drive adoption of the new system.

Qualifications

WHAT WE WILL BE LOOKING FOR IN YOU:

  • Bachelor Degree or above

  • 8+ Years of working experience in project management role

  • Solid experience to navigate in a complex matrix organization and drive alignment and execute across multiple functions/stakeholder groups

  • Strong project management skills, organized, strong planning, influencing and driving skills, result oriented. Experience with ERP is preferred (Oracle implementation is an advantage).

  • Strong analytical and problem solving skills

  • Independent, self-motivated and a good team player

  • Proficient in English

  • Willingness to travel to China or overseas

Additional Information

Who we are! - Our Story:

Each of us, Every day! Eight Values. One Team!

We understand diversity and equal opportunities as enrichment for our future-oriented work at Avery Dennison. With us, teams are balanced and diverse. Because each of us is unique, and we appreciate bringing together different personalities and talents.  

Avery Dennison is an equal opportunity employer. You are interested in knowing more about our Diversity & Inclusion approach? Please go to averydennison.com/en/home/about-us/diversity-and-inclusion.html 

At Avery Dennison we do what we love, and we love what we do - Just click here, and get us to know even better: Life @ Avery Dennison (linkedin.com/company/avery-dennison/life/emea)

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