Global Pricing & Commercial Excellence Manager

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!

About Avient Protective Materials

Avient Protective Materials is patent\-owner and manufacturer of Dyneema®, the world’s strongest fiber™. Dyneema®, the world’s strongest fiber™ is APM’s premium product brand for Ultra High Molecular Weight PolyEthylene (UHMWPE) fiber, UD and fabric. Dyneema® combines maximum strength with minimum weight. It is 15 times stronger than quality steel and 40% stronger than aramid fiber, both on weight for weight basis. Dyneema® is used in countless applications where its performance is critical, and failure is simply not an option. Many of these applications would not be possible to design and engineer without Dyneema®. For the people wearing it, and working with it and designing with it, we summarize the promise we make with Dyneema® as “with you when it matters”. Industries like law enforcement, maritime, offshore, medical, defense, sports, outdoor, renewable energy, and personal protective equipment rely on Dyneema® for its lightweight, protective and durable properties. Dyneema® is born from innovation. Our scientific expertise in advanced materials is created with a combination of processing knowhow, material knowledge and application experience. We’re proud of our long\-term collaborations with customers, and the IP protected Dyneema® technology platforms we have created together. From start\-ups to global industry leaders, we invest in helping our customers develop the next generation of performance\-leading applications. Further information on Dyneema® is available at www.dyneema.com.

• Commercial Excellence: Drive the development and deployment of best practices, processes, and analytics to enhance sales performance and decision\-making. Build organizational capabilities through targeted training and hands\-on enablement, while defining and steering improvement initiatives either directly or by coaching others to execute improvement projects.


• CRM System Leadership (Salesforce): Act as global owner of the CRM platform, ensuring adoption, data quality, and continuous enhancement to support sales effectiveness.


• Price management: Own and continuously optimize the pricing tool, ensuring strong user adoption and full alignment with commercial and OTC processes. Manage and streamline pricing processes, including the facilitation of annual global price updates and the execution of mass price changes throughout the year, ensuring consistency, compliance and efficiency.


• Pricing Tool Management: Own and optimize the pricing tool, driving user adoption and ensuring alignment with commercial processes/OTC process.


• Price Block Management: Govern and manage price blocks, ensuring robust controls, proper approval workflows, and timely resolution to minimize commercial disruption and maintain pricing discipline.


• Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities and implement improvements to streamline workflows, enhance systems, and increase commercial discipline globally.


• System Integration: Lead and drive improvements in system connectivity and data flow across Salesforce, pricing tools, and SAP to enable seamless commercial execution. Ensure strong integration and data consistency across key domains, including customer master, product master, and price master, supporting reliable and efficient end\-to\-end processes


• Customer Insights (NPS®): Manage the bi\-annual APM Net Promoter Score (NPS®) survey and translate insights into clear, actionable improvements to enhance customer experience and loyalty.


• Data \& Analytics: Establish and manage a Commercial Excellence KPI framework (e.g., price realization, margin improvement, win rate, and pipeline conversion) to monitor commercial performance and drive fact\-based decision\-making. Translate data into actionable insights on overall commercial performance to support leadership alignment and strategic decisions


• Stakeholder Collaboration: Collaborate cross\-functionally with Sales, Customer Service, Finance, IT, and Marketing to ensure alignment of commercial processes, tools, and data.


• Rebates and Commissions Management: Coordinate and manage global rebates and commissions, ensuring accurate calculation, transparent tracking, and timely execution in line with commercial policies and performance objectives

• A Bachelor’s or master’s degree in a Marketing, Science or Technical discipline.


• Knowledge and past experiences in commercial excellence, continuous improvements, CRM tools and SAP.


• LSS Green or Black Belt certification is appreciated


• Ability to quickly understand rules of the market and play with them in a meaningful way.


• Experience with managing internal and external contacts and networks.


• Influencing skills and consultative skills needed as well as good vision and judgment skills.


• Good verbal and written skills of English.


• Respect and understanding for cultural sensitivity and cultural differences in a business environment.


• An open mindset, natural curiosity and active listening skills.


• The ability to build and maintain excellent working relations with a wide variety of functional disciplines in a global business environment.

• Excellent communication and presentation skills


• Continuous improvement mindset


• Highly self\-motivated and pro\-active


• Ability to manage (IT) projects

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