Metal Buyer

Novelis; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in aluminum recycling seeks a Metal Buyer to enhance supplier relationships and manage scrap purchases across Latin America. This dynamic role involves negotiating with integrity, ensuring timely deliveries, and collaborating with internal teams to resolve issues. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in procurement, fluent in both Spanish and English, and a passion for sustainability. Join a forward-thinking company that values innovation and offers a supportive environment for professional growth and development.

Benefits

Paid Parental Leave

Adoption Assistance

Fertility Treatment

Childcare Discount

Employee Assistance Programs

Wellness Programs

Tuition Assistance

Pet Insurance

Identity Theft Protection

Discount Programs

Qualifications

• 3-5+ years of experience in procurement/commercial roles.
• Ability to create and maintain databases and presentations.
• Fluent in Spanish and English in a professional setting.

Responsibilities

• Negotiate and conduct purchasing activities with integrity.
• Ensure monthly scrap demand and pricing requirements are met.
• Build relationships with suppliers and manage purchasing portfolio.

Skills

Procurement

Commercial Thinking

Spanish Language

English Language

Communication Skills

Critical Thinking

Problem-Solving

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

SAP Procurement

Job description

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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 is seeking a Metal Buyer to join the Global Metal Procurement team to manage supplier relationships and scrap purchases within various Latin America regions, specifically in Central America and Mexico. The person in this role will report to the Sr. Manager of Global Recycling. The ideal candidate will be responsible for purchasing aluminum scrap materials to support Novelis’s goal of achieving 75% recycled content in its products.

Responsibilities

• Negotiate and conduct purchasing activity with a high level of integrity, transparency, compliance, accountability, and professionalism
• Ensure monthly scrap demand, pricing, and purchasing requirements are met across Novelis Regions
• Ensure delivery of purchases are met on time in full
• Work with internal customers and suppliers to help mediate rejections, delays, disruptions, payment issues, claims, and moisture deducts
• Manage sustained growth of scrap purchasing portfolio and maintain strategic supply flow
• Gain deep understanding of scrap metal business, operations, competition, and market-specific scrap ecosystems
• Actively communicate and build relationships with suppliers to ensure strong partnership growth
• Actively arrange and travel to new and existing supplier yards and offices to build relations and improve quality, safety, and processes (at least 3-4 times a year)
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Fluent language capabilities in Spanish and English in a professional setting
• 3-5+ years of experience in procurement/commercial roles, preferably within non-ferrous scrap industry.
• Ability to create and maintain databases and presentations to manage and share information with various stakeholders
• Demonstrated commercial thinking and drive.
• Ability and willingness to work in a multicultural team with multifunctional experts
• Ability and willingness to work across multiple regions and time zones
• Good communication, critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Ability to build relationships with internal stakeholders and suppliers in a global context.
• Willingness to travel internationally across responsible regions (up to 10%)
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a multinational company
• 3-5+ years of Aluminum industry experience
• SAP Procurement knowledge and experience
• Experience working with Latin American scrap commodity markets
  
  

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
  
  

MH2

Hybrid

Location Profile

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.

Disclaimer

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: Careers - Novelis
• Verify any communication with us by contacting our talent team at Careers - Novelis

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Purchasing and Supply Chain

• Industries

  Mining

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