Associate Category Manager, Industrial Gas

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

The Procurement team located in Atlanta, GA is looking for a Procurement Associate Category Manager! Reporting to the Senior Manager Procurement, this role is responsible for leading Strategic categories’ spend in North America, ensuring security of supply, lowest total cost-of-ownership, sustainable savings and value creation through innovation and risk management. This position supports a broad range of the company’s sourcing needs across multiple sites in the region and is responsible for the execution of the Strategic Source Plan, that considers supply markets, challenging demand, position of Novelis, portfolio analysis, supplier cost analysis, strategic options and tactical recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Proactive monitoring and understanding of spend analytics and market intelligence to develop and sustain data-driven sourcing plans, supporting the execution of long-term strategies with a forward-looking horizon of two to ten years.
• Provides support for sourcing activities, including RFQs, RFPs, proposal and project evaluations, and strategic negotiations with multiple suppliers—emphasizing security of supply and risk management.
• Negotiation of supply agreements, NDAs, MSAs, T&Cs, etc.
• Collaborative work and continuous engagement with cross functional internal partners such as Engineering leads, Plant Controllers, Plant Managers, Plant procurement team, financial reporting, and defining procurement specifications that promote consistency in supplier pricing.
• Supplier relationship management and origination. Develop and maintain a comprehensive knowledge of the supplier base and their respective value chains to ensure continuity of supply. Develops and lead QBR including performance metrics and use of supplier scorecards.
• Proactively challenges the needs of the business including the consideration of alternative materials, transportation modes, services, processes, and/or vendors.
• Run cost savings projects (Project Management) and fiscal year savings and/or value collection.
• Leverage professional project management expertise to drive execution and provide regular progress updates to the Category Manager and senior leadership.

Minimum Qualifications:

• BS/BA degree in Business, Supply Chain, Finance or related
• 7+ years of experience in a procurement, commercial or supply chain function
• Proven Negotiation and Commercial Terms Management skills
• Demonstrated Project Management experience
• Strong Leadership, Interpersonal, and Communication skills
• Strong ability to analyze and tackle problems
• Travel is required to Novelis Plants in the US and Canada, up to 20% - 30% of the time
• Highly effective verbal and written communications at all levels of the organization
• Able to influence and thrive in a Team environment
• Strong analytical background as well as presentation skills to effectively summarize and report/drive discussion with key internal partners
• Detail oriented, with experience running multiple projects and changing priorities
• Exhibits strong sense of ownership, getting results
• Able to work cross-functionally within a Manufacturing environment
• High degree of proficiency in Microsoft Office; SAP experience is a plus

Preferred Qualifications:

• MBA preferred
• Work experience in manufacturing or primary metals is preferred.
• Prior experience developing Strategic Source plans and commodity management preferred.
• Previous experience leading the procurement process for the energy, utilities, infrastructure projects, industrial gases and/or contractors and services categories.
• Green Belt, or higher, certification preferred.
• Experience communicating in both a corporate office setting and a shop floor / manufacturing environment.

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 program

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Location Profile

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.

Disclaimer

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