Novelis is one of the world leaders in aluminum recycling and rolling and a leading sustainable aluminum solutions provider. Driven by our purpose of shaping a sustainable world together, we work alongside our customers to provide innovative solutions to the aerospace, automotive, beverage packaging and specialty markets. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Novelis has approximately 13,000 employees in 32 operating facilities on 4 continents.

Novelis North America is looking for a Manager of Strategic Planning & Business Integration. Our ideal candidate must have a detailed understanding of short and long-term manufacturing business strategies to ensure that actions and growth targets are aligned with the business’s strategy, along with a detailed understanding of NNA's value proposition and ability to align value proposition to our customer needs. This role will be dedicated to our Product Management Team to align closely with other key functional teams in the organization (Sales, Technical Development, Global Auto, NE/NA regions, supply chain, R&D/CSC, etc.) to ensure we are efficiently identifying future programs and opportunities of interest with all our customers targeting given our projected sales growth. 

Responsibilities 

• Lead all aspects of the development of a five-year strategic plan for automotive, specialties and beverage packaging demonstrating a deep understanding of the auto industry and market dynamics (i.e., electrification, CO2 regulations, etc.) while working with Sales, Technical Development, Customer Solution Center, R&D, and Global teams to identify and quantify strategic opportunities, customers, programs, and applications that will support NNA’s daring growth plans. 

• Support required analysis for future CAPEX investments while also supporting the ramp-up and launch of existing/approved CAPEX investments to ensure adherence to the approved RFA. 

• Serve as a liaison for the value streams and collaborators groups in multiple facets. Examples include: bridging with R&D on new product development and customer innovation value (CVI) submissions and tracking; with Global Automotive on Marketing & Commercial Planning Process; with Operations on Capital Projects; with Regional and Corporate Sustainability on Carbon Playbook development; with Customer Solution Centers on Value-in-Use (ViU) and value-based pricing analysis 

• Drive key digital initiatives that will help promote data centralization, pricing analytics, customer/pricing data management, critical metric / reporting, etc. that will help improve decision-making across the business with access to better data & analytics. 

• Build and maintain strong internal networks with key functional teams(Finance, Operations, Supply Chain, etc.) 

• Identify the viable opportunities in the market, but also program manages key collaborators within and across regions to drive appropriate actions to ensure NNA is positioned to capture identified opportunities. 

• Provide key critical metrics and progress updates to VSL (i.e., VP NNA Commercial, EVP NNA, etc.) which will entail a deep understanding of the key areas of interest within each functional team and the ability to drive non-direct reports to action. Furthermore, detailed program management skills are required to ensure no gaps in the action plan and appropriate reporting aligned to VP Auto’s critical metrics. 

• Liaise with key collaborators in Novelis Europe Auto and Novelis Asia. 

• Travel to Detroit once a month  

Minimum Qualifications

• Required: Bachelor’s degree in business or engineering
• Required: 5-7+ years in Automotive or B2B or Manufacturing, Global experience, working cross-regionally, Cross-functional coordination, Program/project management
• PowerPoint, Excel, executive communication, strategic marketing, and program/project management strategy
• Managerial (people manager) skills, financial modeling, Strategic pricing, Ability to influence non-direct reports
• MS Project, Salesforce CRM, SAP, Digital, SaaS experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Preferred: 10+ years in Auto, B2B, Manufacturing, PMP, Management/strategy consulting, Familiarity with raw materials, aluminum
• Preferred: MBA, Master’s Degree in Engineering

What We Offer:

Novelis' benefits say a lot about how we care for each other. Our employees and their families have many different needs. As a result, our benefits offer choices on many levels and are high in quality, driven by the marketplace, and affordable. In addition to core benefits, we provide these unique to the industry benefits:

• Family Growth Programs: Paid parental Leave, Adoption Assistance, Fertility Treatment, Childcare Discount and Nursing Mom Support
• Employee Assistance Programs: free resources available 24/7 to you and your family in the areas of mental health, family life, and career and financial guidance
• Wellness Programs: incentives for wellness activities, wellness spending account, programs for building healthy habits, virtual physical therapy for joint, back, and pelvic health, health management programs and more.
• Diabetes Management Program
• Pet insurance
• Identity Theft Protection
• PerkSpot Discount Program
• Tuition assistance and career development programs

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Novelis’ Global Corporate Headquarters is located in the Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta Georgia and employs approximately 250 people. It is co-located with Novelis’ North America regional office which employs approximately 225 people. Supporting its 24 operations worldwide Novelis’ corporate office is home to the executive leadership team and global functions that support the automotive beverage can and high-end specialties value streams. The City of Atlanta provides a diverse and family-friendly place to live with countless museums cultural organizations and educational institutions including the Georgia Aquarium Woodruff Arts Center CNN Center Georgia Tech and Mercedes-Benz Stadium. In the Atlanta area Novelis has strong community partnerships with Atlanta Habitat for Humanity GeorgiaFIRST and Agape Youth and Family Center in addition to many local museums and community groups.

Novelis recognizes its talented and diverse workforce as a key competitive advantage. Novelis provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants. All terms and conditions of employment at Novelis including recruiting hiring placement promotion termination layoffs recalls transfers leaves of absence compensation and training are without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal provincial or local laws.

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