Company Description

About Avery Dennison
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 34,000 employees in more than 50 countries. Our reported sales in 2023 were $8.4 billion. Learn more at www.averydennison.com.

Avery Dennison is an equal opportunity employer.
Please let us know if we can support you with reasonable accommodations throughout the application process by contacting our team via [email protected].

Job Description

The Brand Specialist works as an integral part of a sales team in driving initiatives to provide intelligent, creative, sustainable solutions to key retail and apparel accounts. This position supports the team by providing accurate and timely reports, trend information and data analysis. The Brand Specialist communicates regularly with clients to provide information, answer questions, and develop strong partnerships. The Brand Specialist sustains internal account management processes and best practices to meet and exceed sales quota targets. This is an ideal position for an insightful, motivated, high-potential person with aspirations of pursuing a future sales career. We need someone to cover a maternity leave for minimum 7 months.

Your responsibilities may include some or all of these daily activities to support the sales team:

• Understanding the client’s business model and goals, and our role in enabling their success
• Creating and maintaining inventory reports and client sales reports
• Resolving RBO, order, quality, or deployment issues
• Creating and sustaining program launch playbooks
• Preparing and managing the financial forecast and RFID forecast
• Creating sample boards and preparing client presentations
• Tracking rebates
• Managing the material forecast to support internal site readiness for orders
• Setting up clients for web ordering
• Tracking our compliance with waste management
• Identifying insightful ways to make brand management process most efficient by implementing best practices and proactively addressing anticipated account needs
• Working with the teams across Avery Dennison to support sales growth
• Leading brand management activities such as conducting store audits, attending client meetings, and maintaining account planners for smaller accounts

Qualifications

• BS/BA required, majors in business management, marketing, or graphic arts strongly preferred.
• Previous experience in the retail apparel industry strongly preferred.
• Must be strong at analyzing and interpreting complex data sets.
• Outstanding internal and external communication and client service required.
• Recent college graduates desiring to pursue professional-level sales and/or marketing opportunities are strongly encouraged to apply.

Additional Information

We not only embrace change… we drive it. We work hard, push hard, and take brave risks. Our culture is innovative and collaborative - where bold ideas turn into action. We grow strong talent through stretch opportunities only restricted by your interests. We are committed to workplace diversity, both for employees and for the business. We are a force for good, embedded in industries and communities worldwide. We are challenging ourselves and others to reach higher and think bigger to improve the quality of all life. Avery Dennison is a great place to work for everyone. We offer:

• Work hours flexibility
• International environment
• A growing team with good spirit
• Competitive total rewards

Avery Dennison is an equal opportunity employer. If you are interested in knowing more about our Diversity & Inclusion approach, please go to www.averydennison.com