Description

We are looking for a data-driven and strategic Supply Chain Analyst to join our global team . This is a high-visibility, global role acting as the central hub between our Commercial teams and production sites.

Your mission is to own the demand plan, ensuring we deliver world-class service to our customers by balancing cost, capacity, and inventory. You will be empowered to implement and standardize supply chain processes across all global production sites involved in this fast-paced business.

Success in this role will be measured by your ability to improve key metrics, including forecast accuracy, flexibility, reliability, inventory turns, and order turnaround time.

What You Will Do

Demand Planning & Forecasting

• Own the demand planning process by gathering, aligning, and challenging forecasts from the global Commercial team.
• Drive forecast accuracy by monitoring performance, analyzing trends and variances, and leading actions for continuous improvement.
• Translate demand into action by developing production plans and providing clear production forecasts to our manufacturing sites.

Inventory & Capacity Management

• Manage and optimize inventory levels for the TeamSports business, placing strategic orders with production sites to meet contractual agreements while maximizing inventory turns.
• Develop and implement peak season strategies (e.g., pre-builds, outsourcing, inter-company support) to navigate high demand flawlessly.
• Participate in strategic capacity planning, helping allocate production across our sites to maximize service, flexibility, and cost-efficiency.

Process Improvement & Operational Excellence

• Lead the standardization of supply chain processes across all TeamSports production sites, creating a unified and efficient global operation.
• Guarantee customer service levels by meticulously tracking orders across the entire chain and proactively resolving bottlenecks, especially during peak season.
• Act as the primary point of contact for accommodating urgent, unplanned customer demand.
• Coordinate the supply chain component of new item development and launches.
• Manage the customer claims follow-up process, using data to identify root causes and prevent future issues.

Qualifications

What We're Looking For

• A Proven Analyst: You have strong experience in demand planning, supply chain, or a related analytical field.
• A Data-Driven Problem Solver: You love digging into data to find trends, analyze variances, and build models. You can see the story behind the numbers.
• A Master Communicator: You can confidently collaborate, influence, and align with diverse stakeholders across different departments, cultures, and time zones.
• An 'Owner' Mindset: You are proactive, take ownership of your responsibilities, and are driven to improve processes and deliver results.
• Calm Under Pressure: You excel at managing competing priorities, accommodating urgent requests, and navigating the complexity of a global, seasonal business.

Additional Info

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 

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Company Description

Avery Dennison Corporation (NYSE: AVY) is a global materials science and digital identification solutions company. We are Making Possible™ products and solutions that help advance the industries we serve, providing branding and information solutions that optimize labor and supply chain efficiency, reduce waste, advance sustainability, circularity and transparency, and better connect brands and consumers. We design and develop labeling and functional materials, radio frequency identification (RFID) inlays and tags, software applications that connect the physical and digital, and offerings that enhance branded packaging and carry or display information that improves the customer experience. Serving 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 2024 were $8.8 billion. Learn more at www.averydennison.com.

Please let us know if we can support you with reasonable accommodations throughout the application process by contacting our Talent Acquisition team via  Requestaccomodation@eu.averydennison.com.