Template/External Requisition Title Senior Manager, Logistics and Tolling

NOVELIS; Atlanta, Northern (GA, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental and vision insurance

401(k) savings plan with company match

Paid vacation and personal time off

Parental Leave

Tuition assistance and career sviluppo

Job summary

Novelis is seeking a Senior Manager, Logistics & Tolling in Atlanta to lead regional and global sourcing for OTR transportation, rail, warehousing, and tolling. You will develop strategies, manage supplier relationships, and drive cost savings across the supply chain.

The role requires strong negotiation, analytical, and leadership skills, with experience in large-scale procurement and cross-functional collaboration. Hybrid work in the Atlanta area is offered, with a broad benefits package.

Qualifications

• BS/BA degree in Business, Engineering, Supply Chain, or similar required.
• 5-10 years of sourcing or procurement experience.
• Strong leadership, interpersonal, and communication skills.
• Experience in negotiation and commercial terms management.
• Strong quantitative, project management, and data analysis skills.
• Highly effective communications at all levels of the organization; ability to influence in a team environment.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office; SAP experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement regional and global sourcing strategies for Over-the-road transportation, rail, warehousing, and tolling.
• Ensure security and competitive supply of strategic non-metal demands to feed regional operations; support growth and minimize costs.
• Develop and maintain strategic supplier relationships and manage supply chain risk; monitor markets and tariff barriers.
• Negotiate and manage regional contracts; ensure compliance with global agreements.
• Collaborate with global and regional procurement teams to improve value for Novelis; partner with Purchasing on timely, quality deliveries.
• Lead supplier relationship management initiatives and drive cost-to-ownership savings.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Negotiation

Data analysis

Project management

Team orientation

Education

BS/BA Degree in Business, Engineering, Supply Chain, or similar

Tools

SAP

Microsoft Office

Job description

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 Sourcing & Procurement team, located in Atlanta, Georgia, is seeking a Senior Manager, Logistics and Tolling. Reporting to the Regional Procurement Director, the Sr. Manager, Logistics & Tolling is accountable to develop and implement the regional and global sourcing strategies for the group of categories of spend – Over-the-road (OTR) Transportation, Rail, Warehousing, and Tolling - with the goal to ensure supply security, the lowest total cost-of-ownership, generates sustainable savings and value creation through innovation, and risk management. The incumbent develops and drives Strategic Source Plans that assess supply markets, competing buyers, position of Novelis, portfolio analysis, supplier cost analysis, strategic options and source recommendations. The incumbent is accountable for value creation target on a total cost of ownership basis of a minimum of 3% of spend per year.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement the regional and global sourcing strategies for the group of categories of spend – Over-the-road (OTR) Transportation, Rail, Warehousing, and Tolling
• Ensure maintenance, security, and competitive supply of strategic non-metal demands in scope to feed the regional operations. Support growth and minimize cost for highly complex Novelis' operations.
• Develop and maintain strategic supplier relationships in complex market environments. Cultivate strategic relationships and handle supply chain risk while maintaining Novelis' flexibility. Monitor market developments, international movements and tariff barriers that may create new challenges or new opportunities.
• Negotiate and handle regional contracts as a framework for supply agreements. Carry out regional and local contract compliance where global agreements are in place.
• Ensure that regional sourcing of non-metal demands for products and services improves Novelis’ leverage in the global market despite of credit constraints and supports profitability and working capital objectives through anticipating and adapting to industry consolidation and market developments.
• Collaborate with global and other regional Procurement organizations and collaborators to improve value for Novelis.
• Partner with the Purchasing Team, as required, to ensure Production Supplies and Services are delivered on time and in a quality-conformed manner.
• Develop an extensive knowledge of the supplier base and the respective value chains to ensure continuity of supply.
• Support implementation and roll-out of the Supplier Quality Relationship Management Framework
• Influence and engagement to support cross-functional key collaborators from across Novelis, including commercial, manufacturing, technical, engineering, manufacturing excellence, R&D, Finance, IT, Legal, etc.
• Technical Know-how of the major materials and supply flows into and out of the plants/regions with focus on costs, supplier options, and vulnerabilities that can impact the efficiency of operations. Drive risk mitigation efforts in collaboration with other cross-functional teams to address these vulnerabilities.
• Partners with Value Stream Leadership, Plant Management, Regional & Global Procurement teams, to meet or exceed the Plants’ Savings Targets with a TCO mindset
• Excellent communication skills that allow the Procurement Leadership to get the “voice of the Customer” & to understand the company Culture and how to best communicate Procurement’s value to it.

• Recommend incorporating supporting NNA Cost Reduction Project (McKinsey), Responsibilities related to IT/Digital enablement initiatives, team/people development (generic but needed for a young team), and leadership of large-scale strategic supplier relationship and negotiations (eg. Penske, Page, CSX, RJC…)
• Lead external consulting engagements and cross-functional transformation initiatives by defining and prioritizing workstreams, validating savings opportunities, challenging methodologies to ensure operational feasibility and alignment with total cost of ownership objectives
• Serve as business owner for logistics sourcing technologies by partnering with IT, Enterprise Architecture, Cybersecurity, Procurement Excellence, and business stakeholders to define requirements, evaluate solutions, develop business cases, and lead implementation, adoption, and continuity of strategic initiatives
• Build and sustain team capability and continuity through coaching, role clarity, workload planning, contractor oversight, onboarding, cross-training, succession planning, and adoption of sourcing, analytics, automation, and AI-enabled tools
• Lead complex, high-value strategic supplier relationship , sourcing and commercial negotiations, developing innovative commercial models, optimizing total cost of ownership, mitigating supply risk, and securing long-term value through executive stakeholder alignment and supplier partnerships, including major transportation, rail, closed-loop, warehousing, and tolling initiatives.

Minimum Qualifications:

• BS/BA Degree in Business, Engineering, Supply Chain, or similar
• 5-10 Years of Sourcing or Procurement Experience
• Strong Leadership, Interpersonal, and Communication skills
• Experience in Negotiation and Commercial Terms Management
• Strong quantitative, project management, and data analysis skills
• Highly effective communications in all levels of the organization
• Able to influence and thrive in a Team environment
• High degree of proficiency in Microsoft Office; SAP experience is a plus

Preferred Qualifications:

• MBA a Plus
• Broad Strategic and Applicable Experience in an Industrial or Manufacturing Organization
• Experience with SAP

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:

• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• Health savings accounts - Company Funded Health Savings Account (HSA) and Health Reimbursement Account (HRA)
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Company-paid basic life insurance and additional voluntary life coverage
• Paid vacation and competitive personal time off
• 401(k) savings plan with company match
• Retiree Medical Plans - medical and prescription drug coverage through Novelis-sponsored Retiree Health Access
• Retirement Savings Account

• 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!

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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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