Regional Sales Manager

Location: Birmingham, AL, United States; Remote

The Regional Sales Manager (RSM) leads and develops a team of 4–5 sales professionals, driving performance through coaching, accountability, and strategic direction. This role is responsible for enabling the team to engage customers at all levels of the organization (“high, wide, and deep”), building strong stakeholder relationships that position Avient as a preferred and trusted partner. The RSM coaches and models customer-centric selling, emphasizing value-based solutions that differentiate Avient’s products and services. They actively support their team in identifying opportunities, solving complex customer challenges, and delivering solutions that create value for both the customer and Avient. As a leader, the RSM brings energy, professionalism, and a results-oriented mindset to daily operations, fostering a high-performance culture. They operate with a high degree of independence, serving as a thought leader who can effectively influence and align stakeholders across both Avient and customer organizations, including senior and executive levels. This position requires up to 75% travel.

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; 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, ApplicationAccommodation@Avient.com.