Senior Manager, Human Resources

Avient is seeking a strategic, business-minded, and globally experienced Senior HR Manager to support our global Corporate Finance and Global Business Services (GBS) organizations . This highly visible role offers a unique opportunity to partner directly with senior leaders and help shape the organizational strategy and people agenda across our Finance and Global Business Services corporate functions.

Our Senior HR Managers are critical to Avient’s success, acting as trusted advisors who connect business goals with people strategies. The Sr. HR Manager for Corporate Finance & GBS will collaborate closely with leaders across Finance, GBS, and our regional HR partners to design and execute talent, organizational, and capability strategies that build a future-ready workforce. This role plays an essential part in strengthening organizational effectiveness and enabling teams to deliver on Avient’s growth agenda. Reporting to the Global HR Director, Corporate Functions, this leader will influence senior stakeholders, drive organizational design initiatives, coach leaders through complex challenges, and support a high-performing, global, matrixed environment.

Essential Functions

• Acts as a change agent, modeling Avient Leadership Behaviors and helping evolve our culture to support business strategy. Coaches leaders and holds them accountable for the same.
• Serves as a trusted advisor to senior leaders in Corporate Finance and Global Business Services, providing strategic guidance on organizational effectiveness, workforce planning, talent strategies, and leadership development.
• Leads organizational design initiatives including structure assessments, role clarity, capability needs and change management execution to support evolving business priorities.
• Partners closely with the Finance and GBS leadership team, providing thought leadership on talent, engagement, performance, and culture initiatives that drive functional excellence.
• Collaborates seamlessly with regional HR partners to ensure consistency, alignment, and execution of global and regional HR strategies.
• Uses data and analytics to inform decisions, identify trends, and develop actionable solutions that improve organizational performance and employee experience.
• Supports talent planning and succession processes, ensuring strong pipelines for critical roles and facilitating robust development discussions.
• Advises leaders on sensitive employee relations matters, applying sound judgment, consistent practices, and a balanced approach to achieving optimal outcomes.
• Drives HR initiatives that promote innovation, efficiency, and continuous improvement across Finance and GBS operations, including change management, capability building, and process enhancement.
• Builds leader capability, providing coaching, feedback, and tools that strengthen leadership effectiveness and elevate team performance.
• Partners with COEs (Talent Management, Total Rewards, Talent Acquisition, Learning & Development, HRIS) to deliver integrated HR solutions and ensure programs meet the unique needs of the Corporate Finance and Global Business Services functions.
• Manages special projects to support the evolving needs of Corporate Finance, GBS, and Avient’s global HR function.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in human resources, business, organizational development, or a related field; Master’s degree preferred.
• Minimum of 8+ years of progressive HR experience, ideally as an HR business partner supporting corporate functions, shared services or a similarly complex, matrixed global environment.
• Experience working within or supporting a global shared services or Global Business Services model strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated experience leading organizational design, workforce planning, and change management initiatives.
• Strong executive presence with the ability to influence and build trust with senior leaders.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across geographies and levels.
• Ability to operate independently with sound judgment, strong time management skills, and the ability to prioritize in a dynamic environment.
• Proven ability to diagnose complex business issues and develop data-driven, practical solutions.
• Strong problem-solving skills and comfort navigating ambiguity.
• Experience with HR technologies and the Microsoft Suite; strong Excel and analytical skills required.
• Ability to manage confidential information with discretion and professionalism.

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!

We believe that all of our global employees are leaders and that the six most important behaviors for driving our strategy and culture are the same no matter if an employee is a leader of self, a leader of others, or a leader of the business.

By playing to win, acting customer centric, driving innovation and profitable growth, collaborating seamlessly across Avient, and motivating and inspiring and developing others and yourself you will accelerate your ability to achieve Avient’s strategic goals, to meet our customer needs, and to accomplish your career goals.

At Avient, we believe a wide variety of thoughts, 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 on hiring, promotion, development, compensation or advancement are based solely on a person’s qualifications, abilities, experience and performance.

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. If you need an accommodation because of a disability to complete an online application, please contact the Avient HR Team by emailing, [email protected] .