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.

The Novelis North America (NNA) team is seeking a Senior Manager, Business Transformation & Value Delivery to help lead the region’s transformation portfolio to support long-term financial growth and regional performance.

This role reports to the Vice President, Business Integration for North America and will be responsible for establishing the governance, tracking, risk management, issue escalation, and leadership routines needed to deliver measurable value across the region.  This is a high-impact opportunity to help shape how Novelis North America prioritizes, governs, and delivers transformational growth across a complex regional business. The role will work closely with senior leaders to translate strategy into execution, strengthen business performance, and ensure the transformation portfolio delivers measurable value.

This is a role of influence, responsible for enabling transformational growth and measurable business value through the transformation project portfolio. The role goes beyond traditional program management; it requires a transformation leader and business integrator who can create alignment, build trust, challenge assumptions, connect dots across Supply Chain, Commercial, Metal Procurement, Operations, and Finance leadership, and bring the structure, subject matter expertise, and executive visibility needed to accelerate decision-making and execution.

Responsibilities

Transformation Portfolio Leadership & Value Delivery

• Lead the North America transformation portfolio to deliver measurable business impact (EBITA), strengthen financial performance, and enable transformational growth across the region.
• Prioritize, sequence, and govern the portfolio to ensure resources, leadership attention, and execution focus are aligned to the highest-value initiatives.
• Translate portfolio performance, value realization, risks, trade-offs, and decisions into clear executive-level insights and recommendations.

Governance, Risk Management & Executive Alignment

• Establish and manage portfolio governance, including KPI tracking, benefit realization, milestone reviews, risk and issue escalation, and decision forums.
• Create clear visibility to portfolio health, delivery risks, interdependencies, resource constraints, and leadership actions required to stay on track.
• Partner with initiative owners to strengthen value cases, execution plans, milestones, ownership, and mitigation actions.

Transformation Integration & Influence

• Serve as a senior business integration leader who connects transformation priorities across Supply Chain, Commercial, Metal Procurement, Operations, Finance, and plant teams.
• Lead through influence by building alignment, accountability, and momentum across senior leaders, initiative owners, and cross-functional teams.
• Bring executive presence and constructive challenge to transformation discussions by clarifying value, surfacing assumptions, resolving ambiguity, and focusing teams on the highest-impact actions.
• Model enterprise leadership by connecting functional decisions to regional performance, customer outcomes, and long-term financial growth.

Performance Management & Decision Support

• Lead the management routines that help the leadership team run the business, deliver monthly results, and sustain regional accountability.
• Lead development of an executive dashboard that provides a clear view of regional performance, KPI trends, risks, opportunities, decisions, and actions.
• Design and manage leadership meeting routines, including agendas, pre-reads, decision logs, action registers, follow-up cadence, and escalation pathways.
• Improve meeting effectiveness by ensuring leadership forums are decision-oriented, insight-driven, and focused on follow-through.
• Lead and develop a small team and support resources responsible for portfolio analytics, executive reporting, governance coordination, and value realization tracking, ensuring leaders have the insights and decision support needed to drive transformation outcomes.

Sustainability & Global Alignment

• Partner closely with the global sustainability and Vision 3x30 teams and regional strategic projects counterparts to align priorities, messaging, and execution.
• Lead internal reporting and commentary on Vision 3x30 / sustainability performance metrics and roadmap to targets in North America

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, or a related analytical field; MBA or advanced degree preferred.
• 15+ years of relevant experience, including demonstrated leadership of large-scale business transformations and complex, multi-workstream project portfolios with measurable business impact.
• Proven ability to influence senior leaders and cross-functional teams without direct authority, including the ability to build alignment, drive accountability, and lead through ambiguity.
• Strong understanding of portfolio governance, benefit tracking, KPI management, risk management, issue escalation, and executive reporting.
• Experience connecting strategy to execution across business functions such as Supply Chain, Commercial, Metal Procurement, Operations, Finance, and manufacturing leadership.
• Ability to synthesize complex business issues, identify interdependencies, and translate ambiguity into structured action plans.
• Demonstrated change leadership skills, including the ability to engage stakeholders, create momentum, manage resistance, and sustain adoption of transformation initiatives.
• Strong financial and analytical acumen, including experience building or validating value cases, benefit realization plans, and executive-level business cases.
• Exceptional executive communication skills, including the ability to prepare concise, decision-oriented materials for senior leadership.
• Experience in manufacturing, industrials, metals, supply chain, or operations-intensive environments preferred.

*Please note that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future sponsorship 

What We Offer

Novelis’ benefits reflect our commitment to supporting employees and their households with flexible, high-quality options, including:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Company-funded Health Savings Account (HSA) and Health Reimbursement Account (HRA)
• Company-paid life insurance and voluntary coverage options
• Competitive paid time off
• 401(k) savings plan with company match
• Retirement and post-retirement health coverage options
• Employee assistance programs available 24/7
• Wellness, career development, and work-life support resources

This role offers a hybrid schedule and aligns with Novelis’ Flex Work approach, supporting collaboration while enabling work-life balance.

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Novelis’ Global Corporate and North America Headquarters is located in the Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta GA employing around 700 people. Supporting it’s 31 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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