Associate Category Manager-Energy - Novelis North America HQ

Company 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.

Position Overview

The Sourcing & Procurement team, located in Atlanta, Georgia, is seeking an Associate Category Manager-Energy. The Energy Category Manager is part of the North America Procurement Organization and is responsible for developing and implementing the strategic sourcing plan for the Energy Category.

This position supports a broad range of the company’s sourcing needs across multiple sites in the region, including compliance to Novelis’ Procurement Policies to delivering savings and value creation across the enterprise by working with Strategic Sourcing team and ensuring products and services are bought in accordance with the commodity strategies.

Responsibilities: 

• Drives the development and execution of sourcing strategies by performing needs assessment, market and supplier analysis for assigned categories.
• Supports sourcing activities, RFQs, RFPs and negotiations with multiple suppliers to secure Natural Gas, Electricity, renewables and water supply (including PPAs, RECs, Natural Gas supply, Natural Gas Transportation, water supply, infrastructure agreements).
• Commercial support for the implementation of energy efficiency and renewables initiatives.
• Spend analysis and reporting, market intelligence, proposals and project evaluation.
• Leads internal approvals process.
• Collaborative work and continuous engagement with cross functional internal stakeholders such as Energy leads, Plant Controllers, Sustainability and Strategy team, Region procurement team.
• Supplier relationship management and origination.

Qualifications: 

• BS/BA Degree in Finance, Engineering or technical discipline
• 7+ years of experience in a procurement or commercial function in an electric utility, energy supplier, renewable energy developer or manufacturing company
• Extensive understanding of energy markets, cost structure, regulatory landscape. Hands on experience analyzing and interpreting energy cost/usage data, electric tariffs, and wholesale energy markets intelligence
• Strong analytical background as well as presentation skills to effectively summarize and report/drive discussion with key internal stakeholders
• Detail oriented, with experience managing multiple projects and changing priorities
• Exhibits strong sense of ownership, driving results
• Proficient in MS Word, Excel and Powerpoint

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

This role offers a hybrid schedule. Our hybrid approach is designed to foster employee work-life balance and powers connection, collaboration, and a sense of community among our teams. 

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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, state, or local laws.

We encourage all potential candidates to follow the protocols below and to be diligent when sharing any personal information: 

• Check the job posting is live and valid via our careers page: https://www.novelis.com/careers/
• Verify any communication with us by contacting our talent team at interviews@novelis.com.