Sustainability Manager

Atlanta, GA, United States

Position Overview:

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 Sustainability team, located in Atlanta, Georgia, is seeking a Sustainability Manager! This position will be responsible for supporting the development of the Novelis sustainability roadmap and will have primary responsibility for the implementation of the roadmap throughout the region. The position is responsible for the analysis and implementation of key sustainability initiatives to support the long-term North America strategy to support achievement of key sustainability targets across all value streams and regional functional groups. Working with internal and external subject matter experts, this role will gather information, synthesize business & technical concepts, develop implementation plans and help build strategic business initiatives that drive decision-making at the highest levels of the organization. The Sustainability Manager is responsible for leading and supporting the sustainability agenda of the region, for monitoring the performance against our carbon goals, and for being a key partner inside the organization related to the sustainability topics!

Responsibilities & Qualifications:

Responsibilities

Sustainability Leadership

Lead the efforts working closely with the Global Sustainability Manager to develop globally aligned frameworks, processes, and tools for managing supply chain GHG data collection and analysis for customer reporting, ensuring compliance with the GHG protocol and ISO standards.

Lead, support, and develop a team of direct and/or indirect reports.

Lead the communication plan and change management through workshops and trainings.

Engage in customer and supplier meetings as a sustainability subject matter authority.

Bring an understanding of various climate and sustainability topics and evaluate various decarbonization and waste and water reduction levers (e.g., CCUS, waste heat capture, energy & water reduction)

Represent Novelis North America with ecosystem players (e.g., government, agencies, Industry Association working groups.) to prioritize Novelis Sustainability Initiatives.

Regional Sustainability Strategy

Develop the regional Sustainability Roadmap and prioritize initiatives.

Lead all aspects of the regional sustainability agenda, containing daring short term CO2 reduction goals and a long-term target of reaching a net-zero carbon emissions balance, and achieving waste and water targets.

Collaborate closely with the global Sustainability and Strategy teams on governance-related matters, while also partnering with the European communications and governmental affairs teams.

Integrate sustainability into the regional strategic plan. Ensuring proper priority, tracking and execution to support the overall business objectives.

Build market Intelligence by understanding key market drivers, market position, competitive advantages, and benchmarking of sustainability.

Sustainability Reporting

Refine sustainability related critical metrics along with data monitoring solutions to facilitate decision-making and drive desired outcomes, ensuring data transparency throughout the process.

Develop the appropriate internal and external reporting mechanisms and cadence to ensure barriers to success are appropriately identified and advanced in coordination with the global sustainability team.

Facilitate leadership reviews, resolve bottlenecks.

Understand customer requirements for reporting and customer sustainability targets.

Coordinate with internal collaborators to optimally communicate Novelis life cycle Assessment and carbon footprint methodology.

Minimum qualifications

BA or BS Degree required,

3-5 years of working experience in sustainability, ideally in the metals industry or manufacturing

Familiar with GHG protocol and ISO standards

Demonstrated ability to achieve results through leadership, influence and inspiration.

Results oriented, change agent with strategic approach.

Project management experience

Strong communicator (verbal and written) with executive presence and experience facilitating interactive meetings both internally and externally.

Ability to work in an unstructured environment.

Experience developing and communicating material to a senior level audience.

Strong skills in MS Office Suite, including Excel, PowerPoint, and Word

Preferred qualifications

MBA or advance degree preferred.

Experience in life cycle assessment methodology and carbon accounting preferred

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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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.

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