Global Contracts Manager - Novelis Corporate 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 Global Legal team, located in Atlanta, GA, is seeking a Global Contracts Manager to join the Global Contracts Center of Excellence (COE) to support a wide range of purchasing contracts globally. 

This role will support contract intake and participate in drafting, reviewing, and negotiating purchase contracts for multiple sourcing categories, including capital expenditures, business services, IT services, and other procurement-related transactions. 

The Global Contracts Manager will conduct negotiations with vendors and suppliers, develop negotiation strategies, evaluate risk exposure, and make contracting recommendations to business partners.

This role will support the formation of a centrally managed contracting function to ensure global contracts are efficiently managed through a set of global contracting standards and modernized contracting tools, including new contract lifecycle management (CLM) technology. 

The Global Contracts Manager will work with a centralized team of contract attorneys, professionals, and managers to ensure compliance with internal policies.  This role will support contracting improvement projects, providing input on strategic contract playbooks and contract templates, as well as supporting training efforts for procurement business partners.

The ideal candidate will have the ability to manage contracts of varying complexity and value on a global scale and leverage legal and business knowledge, governance, and speed to support contracting efforts with business partners.

Responsibilities 

• Global Contracts COE Support: Support the formation of a global contracts COE and the implementation of a contracts compliance strategy, contracts policy and best practices, template agreements, contract playbooks, and CLM technology
• Contract Drafting and Negotiation: Lead the negotiation, drafting, and review of global contracts and ensure legal terms are aligned with company policies and objectives.
• Contract Lifecycle Management: Support the end-to-end lifecycle of contracts, from creation and negotiation to execution, renewal, and termination, using a CLM system to bring visibility, agility, and analytics to the contracting process.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Support and collaborate with the legal, procurement, and commercial teams on contract negotiations and contract improvement projects.
• Template & Clause Management: Support the development and maintenance of standard contract templates, clauses, and playbooks to streamline contract creation and ensure consistency across all business teams.
• Contract Performance Monitoring: Track key obligations, milestones, and deadlines, ensuring timely execution and compliance with contract terms.
• Team Collaboration: Establish a team-oriented approach with other COE lead, lead attorneys, and contract managers and lead to eliminate workflow redundancies while prioritizing the efficient delivery of legal advice and analysis of contracts.
• Training & Support: Provide guidance and training to internal teams on contract processes, terms, and best practices. 

Minimum qualifications 

• Bachelor's degree required, with 5-7 years of experience in contracts management, paralegal work, or a similar role in a law firm, in-house legal, or procurement department.
• Lead negotiator for complex global procurement and/or commercial transactions, with at least 5 years of experience managing procurement or commercial agreements and overseeing the entire contract lifecycle.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office, legal/contract management software, and excellent drafting and writing abilities.
• Excellent communication skills, capable of translating legal issues into business risks/benefits, and problem-solving complex issues for vendors and internal stakeholders.
• Leadership experience in customer-focused environments, strategic thinking with strong business sense, and ability to navigate a fast-paced, global work setting.
• Self-motivated with the ability to manage complex projects, multi-task, and adapt to frequent change.
• Comfortable working with all levels of an organization, including executives, and key suppliers/customers, with a focus on quality and attention to detail.

Preferred qualifications 

• 10+ years in contracts management, paralegal, or similar roles, focusing on reviewing, drafting, negotiating, and managing contracts.
• Experience drafting and negotiating procurement or commercial agreements for a global manufacturing company.
• Over 10 years of experience managing procurement or commercial agreements, with familiarity in contracts lifecycle management tools and technology.
• Skilled in legal technologies, particularly in contracts lifecycle management, document management, and knowledge management. 

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 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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