Full-Time
Assistant Manager
R&D
Posted on 9/7/2026
Avery Dennison
10,001+ employees
Materials science and RFID labeling solutions
No salary listed
Pune, Maharashtra, India
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Master's, PhD
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- A master's degree or higher in Chemistry, Engineering, or Polymer Sciences disciplines.
- A minimum of 3 to 5 years of experience.
- Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and analysis skills.
- Excellent written technical and verbal communication and presentation skills.
- Fluency in spoken and written English.
- Strong technical report-writing and presentation skills.
- Strong command of common computer software programs, including Google platforms.
- Knowledge of polymer, rubber, and allied materials.
- Knowledge of testing equipment.
- Design and formulate novel acrylic- and rubber-based pressure-sensitive adhesives according to market needs and customer specifications.
- Understand solvent-, emulsion-, and hotmelt-based pressure-sensitive adhesives.
- Drive technology innovation through idea generation, root-cause analysis, troubleshooting, and implementation of lasting corrective actions.
- Apply understanding of technical material properties, performance characteristics, processing parameters, converting efficiency, and final end-use applications.
- Monitor emerging technologies, intellectual property, and market trends within the adhesive industry to support strategic planning and competitive advantage.
- Improve productivity and efficiency through digitalization, automation, artificial intelligence, and machine learning.
- Manage cost-driven, business continuity, and strategic projects for the AMEA region in accordance with DDOS and Stage Gate processes through the development stage.
- Participate in and conduct regular cross-functional project calls and update A3 project plans, timelines, critical-to-quality requirements, specifications, application test plans, reports, and reviews.
- Manage the R&D process through the Clarity platform from ideation through the project development stage.
- Transition projects from the development stage to the relevant team for commercialization and participate in project meetings through completion.
- Generate strategic ideas for cost mitigation and portfolio expansion through new product development.
- Lead and manage R&D projects, including scope definition, timeline management, and coordination with Procurement, Manufacturing, Marketing, and the R&D cost-out team.
- Document research findings, prepare technical reports, and present research outcomes to stakeholders.
- Complete required actions and follow current processes to drive projects through the development stage.
- Collaborate with regional colleagues and cross-functional teams.
- Knowledge of polymer, rubber, and allied materials.
- Knowledge of testing equipment.
Avery Dennison provides materials science and digital identification solutions to improve branding, labeling, and supply chain efficiency across industries such as retail, apparel, logistics, and healthcare. Its products include pressure-sensitive materials, RFID tags, and labeling solutions, which enable tracking, identification, and efficient handling of goods. These materials and technologies work together to automate workflow, reduce waste, and increase visibility by labeling items and enabling item-level tracking through RFID. The company differentiates itself through its broad, integrated portfolio of high-performance materials and digital tagging technologies, a global footprint, and a strong commitment to sustainability and corporate responsibility. Its goal is to help customers operate more efficiently while reducing environmental impact and strengthening supply chain transparency.
Company Size
10,001+
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Mentor, Ohio
Founded
1935
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- July 30, 2026 Q2 revenue reached $2.46 billion, beating expectations again.
- Avery Dennison raised 2026 EPS guidance to $10.00-$10.30 after strong RFID demand.
- Eventshop and ACS Clothing pilots prove connected labels monetize apparel, resale, and live events.
What critics are saying
- Q3 2026 destocking will hit earnings after July's inventory-bloated Q2 results.
- The Fletcher transition cuts about 30 jobs, signaling manufacturing consolidation pressure.
- ADASA patent history keeps RFID economics vulnerable; another adverse ruling can erode margins.
What makes Avery Dennison unique
- Avery Dennison owns the atma.io RFID cloud, linking physical goods to digital identity.
- Its August 2026 NXP UCode X launches deepen retail RFID performance leadership.
- Bengaluru's 2.3x distribution center and Fletcher Futures Lab expand customer proximity and innovation.
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↑ 10%Avery Dennison, Eventshop partner launch ultimate fan experience. Published: September 3, 2026 Author: James Hickey Key takeaways. * Avery Dennison and Eventshop are pairing Embelex NFC and QR embellishments with the mem-re platform to turn apparel into a gateway for exclusive digital fan experiences. * Additionally, the company opened a new distribution center in India, more than double the size of its earlier facility, supporting faster delivery Avery Dennison has entered into a strategic partnership with Eventshop to create immersive fan and consumer digital experiences. The collaboration combines Avery Dennison's Embelex connected embellishments, featuring NFC and QR code technology, with Eventshop's mem-re digital platform. Fans can interact with an NFC label by simply tapping their smartphone, launching the mem-re platform to unlock personalized exclusive experiences in-stadium and beyond. Instead of a traditional apparel embellishment, fans access a gateway to an evolving digital experience. This interactive journey can include exclusive content such as behind-the-scenes footage, interactive polling, VIP early access to exclusive offerings and personalized perks featuring hidden rewards. How NFC embellishments turn apparel into a digital gateway. Sergio Shmilovitch, VP/GM Embelex, Avery Dennison, observed that there has be "undeniable growing demand" for digitally enabled embellishments. "The range of activations is exciting, spanning beyond jerseys to include sneakers, workwear or any material with a digital trigger," said Shmilovitch in a statement. "This strategic partnership shows our commitment to innovation, effectively turning physical embellishments into routes for dynamic, highly engaging digital marketing platforms." What the mem-re platform means for brands and venues. The content is managed through mem-re's content management system that leverages AI creation tools. From this portal, Avery Dennison clients can better understand fan and consumer engagement, using this information to identify new commercial opportunities. This partnership signals a major shift towards omnichannel experiences driven by digital, unlocking value for brands as well as sports and entertainment venues. By blending Avery Dennison's global manufacturing with Eventshop's mem-re technology, the partnership transforms static apparel into an intimate, connected relationship between teams, brands and consumers. "With deployment opportunities across live events, hospitality, sports, entertainment and apparel brands, the mem-re platform reimagines the fan and consumer experience," said Spencer Combs, CEO & founder, Eventshop & mem-re. "Avery Dennison's size, scale and expertise make it the perfect partner to open up a new world of possibilities for innovative, fan-first teams and brands." Avery Dennison inaugurates new distribution center in India. In a seperate move, Avery Dennison South Asia opened a new distribution center in Bengaluru, a significant step in the company's ongoing commitment to being closer to its customers in India. The new facility is more than double than its earlier facility and is designed to support growing demand across labels, intelligent labels, tapes, graphics and reflective solutions. The expanded facility reflects Avery Dennison's strategy of scaling its infrastructure ahead of demand, enabling the company to improve delivery speed and reliability as its business continues to grow. The facility is home to a dedicated Customer Experience Center, which provides brand owners with an opportunity to explore Avery Dennison's latest solutions and innovations first-hand. Strategically located with excellent connectivity via peripheral roads, enabling faster, more efficient movement of goods across India, the center is situated outside city limits that frees ist operations from city timing restrictions that typically constrain last-mile logistics, a key enabler for the company's goal of achieving one-day delivery within Bangalore. "India remains one of our fastest-growing and most strategic markets globally," said Saurabh Agarwal, Vice President and General Manager, South Asia, Avery Dennison, when he spoke at the center's opening inauguration. "This investment goes beyond expanding warehousing capacity, it reinforces our long-term commitment to the region. As customer demand for speed and reliability accelerates, Avery Dennison is ensuring we do not just deliver world-class solutions, but stand right beside our customers where they need us most." Posted in: News
Avery Dennison's latest RFID portfolio expansion. AD Miniweb Global UCode X and AD Burst UCode X August 26, 2026 Avery Dennison has announced the debut of AD Miniweb Global UCode X and AD Burst UCode X featuring NXP's next-generation UCode X chip. By pairing NXP's latest IC technology with its newly optimized antenna designs, these new additions deliver a powerful performance boost - bringing next-level visibility and operational efficiency across different environments, from apparel and electronics to home essentials and sporting goods. The company stated in a post. They feature increased read range and speed, configurable and expandable memory; and enhanced security and privacy. Designed for maximum versatility, both inlays combine compact footprints with state-of-the-art performance - delivering discreet visibility across your entire merchandise portfolio. AD Miniweb Global UCode X. This ARC-compliant retailer favorite is elevated by next-gen NXP UCode X technology and is now the smallest UCode X globally tuned inlay design to achieve all retail ARC Specs on the market, ensuring reliable tracking across diverse merchandise world-wide. AD Miniweb inlays from Avery Dennison Smartrac are designed for general retail, apparel and industrial applications. Offering a compact size and excellent performance, this inlay is ideal for tagging a wide range of materials. The AD Miniweb family is optimized for maximum performance, making the inlay suitable for a wide variety of RFID tagging applications, including supply chain, inventory and logistics, apparel, and home essentials, as well as apparel, electronics, sporting goods, and other general merchandise. The AD Miniweb family carries inlays that provide outstanding global performance in 42 x 16 mm / 1.654 x .0630 inch antenna footprint to be easily converted into your end application needs. Like all RFID products from Avery Dennison, AD Miniweb inlays are compliant with ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management and ISO 14001:2015 Environmental Management, which ensure a reliable and state-of-the-art product that meets a variety of application needs, especially in the retail environment. The RFID Lab at Auburn University has awarded Avery Dennison its first comprehensive and significant ARC accreditation for quality. AD Burst UCode X. AD Burst UCode X is a next generation AD Belt U9 and AD-23x U9 Slim. It is a high-performance global RFID tagging solution enabled by NXP's UCode X IC technology. Engineered for discreet placement, it relies on a slim antenna design to optimize operations across apparel and general retail. AD Burst inlays and tags from Avery Dennison provide outstanding global performance in die cut footprint of 73 x 13.5 mm / 2.87 x 0.53 in. AD Burst is optimized for maximum performance in retail and apparel segments, but as a versatile product, it also performs well in some industrial applications. The inlays are suitable for a wide variety of RFID tagging applications, including supply chain, inventory and logistics, apparel, and home essentials, as well as apparel, electronics, sporting goods, and other general merchandise. Like all RFID products from Avery Dennison, AD Burst inlays are manufactured according to the industry's highest quality standards. Packaging South Asia - An authentic, impactful, and influential 20-year-old! An English-language packaging industry B2B platform in print and web, Packaging South Asia is in its 20th year of publication. Without claims about being the best, most widely read, or most influential, its Google analytics have doubled in the past year. If you are interested in impactfully targeting the Indian and South Asian markets to sell equipment, technology, software, and consumables, Packaging South Asia can help. Packaging South Asia can assess your potential and addressable markets in light of the competition with research and discuss marketing, communication, and sales strategies for market entry and growth. [www.ippstar.org] With a strategy and budget for targeted marketing, you can discuss optimal use of its hybrid print, web, video, and social media channels for brand recognition linked to market relevance. Its platforms and channels are differentiated by hands-on domain practice and experience. Packaging South Asia understand of business and financials, and its team, including some of the best globally recognized technical writers, is ready to meet you and your customers for content. Get its 2026 media kit and recalibrate your role in this dynamic market. Enhance visibility and relevance to turn potential customers into success. Ask for a sample copy of its print monthly or its two weekly packaging eZines. For editorial [email protected] - for advertisement [email protected] and for subscriptions [email protected] Naresh Khanna - 12 January 2026
ACS Clothing pilots RFID solutions. Scottish circular apparel hub used Avery Dennison's embedded labels to achieve wide operational benefits. 18th August 2026 Innovation in Textiles North Lanarkshire, Scotland Avery Dennison has worked with ACS Clothing to explore how real-time visibility enhanced operational efficiency and supported scalable management of high-volume garment flows. ACS Clothing is one of Europe's largest circular apparel hubs, processing 45,000 items weekly. Based in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, the business combines advanced technologies with circular economy principles to drive expansion and give new life to unwanted clothing. It needed real-time visibility across its complex garment lifecycle management processes, including resale, rental, refurbishment, and repair. The apparel industry is facing major market shifts that demand digital solutions. The upcoming EU ban on destroying unsold goods and the rapid growth of the second-hand market - projected to reach $367 billion by 2029 - are driving a surge in garment volume. To manage this influx and reduce costs, circularity hubs like ACS are working towards digital infrastructure. Without it, data barriers create inefficiencies, administrative burden and limited ability to identify and track garments at scale. ACS therefore teamed with Avery Dennison for a pioneering pilot project at the Glasgow, UK hub which ran for a month, exploring how RFID could meet its capacity and traceability requirements. The initiative began by strategically embedding 500 selected garments with unique, durable Avery Dennison RFID labels, giving each item a distinct digital identity. As each RFID tagged garment progressed through its journey, its status was tracked at key stages - 'Checking In', 'Wash and Dry', 'Repair', 'Stock' and 'Sold. ACS operatives managed the process using Avery Dennison RFID mini tablets, which enabled simple, swift scans. This real-time data was seamlessly captured and centralized on Avery Dennison's atma.io connected product cloud, providing unprecedented visibility into the operational flow. This integrated solution leveraging embedded RFID technology is a game changer, unlocking crucial operational efficiencies and delivering visibility and traceability across an item's life, from intake and refurbishment to resale and rental. It enables real-time monitoring of garment location, condition and treatment history across all operational touchpoints, fundamentally streamlining sorting, grading and refurbishment processes. For ACS, the automated tracking greatly reduced the need for manual input and cut down errors during scanning at vital stages like Check-In and Dispatch. This achieved significant time and labour savings through rapid, non-contact scanning, all while supporting the management of large garment volumes. With embedded RFID labels, the system cut garment identification and check-in time by 90%, also capturing detailed information such as timestamps, processing status, repair histor, and final destination tracking. This real-time visibility enhanced operational efficiency and supported scalable management of high-volume garment flows. Analysis of this robust data set offered valuable insights into garment lifecycle management, including flow-through rates, average lifecycle duration and repair frequency, to optimise durability. This intelligence allowed for smarter resource allocation and dynamic, data-driven decisions via live dashboards, which in turn helped to reduce garment loss and ensure stronger compliance with service level agreements (SLAs). Beyond immediate operational benefits, the RFID system helped ACS prepare for future legislation, including the planned EU Digital Product Passport (DPP) and Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) requirements. "This pilot partnering with Avery Dennison is a major leap in our journey towards complete circular transparency," says ACS CEO Andrew Rough. "For the first time, we can tell the full story of a garment's life, where it's been, how it's been cared for and how it's contributing to a more sustainable future. Embedding RFID tags delivered a 90% saving on the time needed to identify and associate garments at check-in." Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Email Business intelligence for the fibre, textiles and apparel industries: technologies, innovations, markets, investments, trade policy, sourcing, strategy...
Avery Dennison names new VP for Label and Packaging Materials, North America. August 17, 2026 Avery Dennison Corp. recently appointed Dave Collins vice president, sales and customer service, Label and Packaging Materials, North America. Leading the commercial sales and service team, Collins will work to develop and execute long-term strategies that help accelerate growth and enhance performance across the North America business. Collins brings more than 19 years of Avery Dennison experience to the role, having held positions across the Labels, Fasteners, and Performance Tapes businesses within Materials Group. Most recently, he served as vice president and general manager of Performance Tapes North America. "Dave is a highly experienced leader with a deep understanding of our business, our customers, and the markets we serve," said Tina Hart, vice president and general manager, LPM North America. "His proven track record across multiple businesses within Materials Group makes him exceptionally well-suited to drive growth and strengthen our commercial leadership across the North America Labels business." Looking for a reprint of this article? From high-res PDFs to custom plaques, order your copy today! JOIN TODAY to unlock your recommendations. Already have an account? Sign In
FTAI Aviation has emerged as a standout performer in the industrials sector, which has underperformed the broader market over the past six months. The company specialises in selling, leasing, maintaining, and repairing aircraft engines, with a focus on the CFM56 engine that powers Boeing and Airbus planes. FTAI demonstrated exceptional growth with revenue increasing 50.5% annually over the past two years, significantly outpacing competitors. Earnings per share grew by 35.1% annually during the same period. In contrast, Ball and Avery Dennison face challenges. Ball's annual sales growth of 2.3% over five years lagged peers, whilst Avery Dennison's projected sales growth of just 2.4% for the next twelve months suggests sluggish demand ahead.