Position Overview:
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.
Responsibilities & Qualifications:
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.

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

• 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