Operational Excellence Intern - Summer 2025
Operational Excellence Intern - Summer 2025
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About Us
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; its powered by the passion creativity and diverse expertise of 9000 professionals worldwide. Whether youre a finance wizard a tech enthusiast an operational powerhouse an HR changemaker or a trailblazer in materials development youll 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!
Job Summary
Avient is seeking a summer MBA intern to join the Operational Excellence team which provides global solutions and services to enable Avient and its customers to reach worldclass performance. The Operational Excellence Internship provides a current MBA student the opportunity to engage in projects within operations management sourcing logistics or manufacturing as well as exposure to Avient Lean Six Sigma training. Improvement activities may include the following areas: distribution supply planning strategic sourcing customer management demand management master scheduling & planning inventory management research & development and network optimization. During the internship students will establish relationships with peers and leaders learn fundamentals and receive coaching performance feedback from the Avient leadership. An internship in the Operational Excellence group successfully completed could lead to an opportunity to join the Operational Excellence Leadership Development Program with Avient after graduation. Individuals in this program lead and assist in highprofile improvement initiatives across the global organization in part through application of Avients LSS Black Belt program.
Essential Functions
- Lead and / or participate in crossfunctional project teams typically within operations and supply chain.
- Make recommendations to management based on business case and analysis.
- Assist in the creation of worldclass internal processes in areas such as strategic supplier management contract management operations and operations planning.
- Interface with Operational Excellence department and a wide variety of functional areas within the business units to insure improvements are implemented and sustained.
- Identify and develop key operational excellence metrics and measures to facilitate performance improvements.
- Interact with senior management build internal network and relationships with other employees both in Operational Excellence and across the globe and make a difference in Avients future success.
- Other duties as assigned
Education and Experience
- Currently pursuing an MBA. Operations or Supply Chain Management focus and three years of work experience preferred.
Additional Qualifications
- Strong problemsolving skills with the ability to acquire assimilate and analyze data from multiple systems and data sources using a variety of business intelligence and reporting tools.
- Strong communication and presentation skills adaptable for engaging with multiple levels across the organization.
- Ability to operate and take initiative in an environment of ambiguity; holds themselves and team members accountable for a high level of performance.
- Some project management and data analysis experience is important. Experience with facilitation change management best practice translation and process improvement is ideal.
- Career development.
Avient Leadership Behaviors
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 Avients 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 persons qualifications abilities experience and performance.
Avient is an equal opportunity employer. We maintain a policy of nondiscrimination 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 veterans 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
Required Experience:
Intern
Employment Type
Intern
