Senior Manager, Business Transformation & Value Delivery, North America

About the Role

Novelis North America (NNA) is seeking a Senior Manager, Business Transformation & Value Delivery to help lead the region’s transformation portfolio to support long-term financial growth and regional performance. This role reports to the Vice President, Business Integration for North America and will establish governance, tracking, risk management, issue escalation, and leadership routines needed to deliver measurable value across the region. This is a high-impact opportunity to shape how Novelis North America prioritizes, governs, and delivers transformational growth across a complex regional business.

The role will work closely with senior leaders to translate strategy into execution, strengthen business performance, and ensure the transformation portfolio delivers measurable value. It requires a transformation leader and business integrator who can create alignment, build trust, challenge assumptions, connect dots across Supply Chain, Commercial, Metal Procurement, Operations, and Finance leadership, and bring the structure, subject matter expertise, and executive visibility needed to accelerate decision-making and execution.

Responsibilities

• Transformation Portfolio Leadership & Value Delivery
  • Lead the North America transformation portfolio to deliver measurable business impact (EBITA), strengthen financial performance, and enable transformational growth across the region.
  • Prioritize, sequence, and govern the portfolio to ensure resources, leadership attention, and execution focus are aligned to the highest-value initiatives.
  • Translate portfolio performance, value realization, risks, trade-offs, and decisions into clear executive-level insights and recommendations.
• Governance, Risk Management & Executive Alignment
  • Establish and manage portfolio governance, including KPI tracking, benefit realization, milestone reviews, risk and issue escalation, and decision forums.
  • Create clear visibility to portfolio health, delivery risks, interdependencies, resource constraints, and leadership actions required to stay on track.
  • Partner with initiative owners to strengthen value cases, execution plans, milestones, ownership, and mitigation actions.
• Transformation Integration & Influence
  • Serve as a senior business integration leader connecting transformation priorities across Supply Chain, Commercial, Metal Procurement, Operations, Finance, and plant teams.
  • Lead through influence by building alignment, accountability, and momentum across senior leaders, initiative owners, and cross-functional teams.
  • Bring executive presence and constructive challenge to transformation discussions by clarifying value, surfacing assumptions, resolving ambiguity, and focusing teams on the highest-impact actions.
  • Model enterprise leadership by connecting functional decisions to regional performance, customer outcomes, and long-term financial growth.
• Performance Management & Decision Support
  • Lead the management routines that help the leadership team run the business, deliver monthly results, and sustain regional accountability.
  • Lead development of an executive dashboard providing a clear view of regional performance, KPI trends, risks, opportunities, decisions, and actions.
  • Design and manage leadership meeting routines, including agendas, pre-reads, decision logs, action registers, follow-up cadence, and escalation pathways.
  • Improve meeting effectiveness by ensuring leadership forums are decision-oriented, insight-driven, and focused on follow-through.
  • Lead and develop a small team and support resources responsible for portfolio analytics, executive reporting, governance coordination, and value realization tracking.
• Sustainability & Global Alignment
  • Partner closely with the global sustainability and Vision 3x30 teams and regional strategic projects counterparts to align priorities, messaging, and execution.
  • Lead internal reporting and commentary on Vision 3x30 / sustainability performance metrics and roadmap to targets in North America.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, or a related analytical field; MBA or advanced degree preferred.
• 15+ years of relevant experience, including demonstrated leadership of large-scale business transformations and complex, multi-workstream project portfolios with measurable business impact.
• Proven ability to influence senior leaders and cross-functional teams without direct authority, including building alignment, driving accountability, and leading through ambiguity.
• Strong understanding of portfolio governance, benefit tracking, KPI management, risk management, issue escalation, and executive reporting.
• Experience connecting strategy to execution across business functions such as Supply Chain, Commercial, Metal Procurement, Operations, Finance, and manufacturing leadership.
• Ability to synthesize complex business issues, identify interdependencies, and translate ambiguity into structured action plans.
• Demonstrated change leadership skills, including engaging stakeholders, creating momentum, managing resistance, and sustaining adoption of transformation initiatives.
• Strong financial and analytical acumen, including experience building or validating value cases, benefit realization plans, and executive-level business cases.
• Exceptional executive communication skills, including preparing concise, decision-oriented materials for senior leadership.
• Experience in manufacturing, industrials, metals, supply chain, or operations-intensive environments preferred.

Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future sponsorship.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Company-funded Health Savings Account (HSA) and Health Reimbursement Account (HRA)
• Company-paid life insurance and voluntary coverage options
• Competitive paid time off
• 401(k) savings plan with company match
• Retirement and post-retirement health coverage options
• Employee assistance programs available 24/7
• Wellness, career development, and work-life support resources

Schedule

This role offers a hybrid schedule and aligns with Novelis’ Flex Work approach, supporting collaboration while enabling work-life balance.

Location

Novelis’ Global Corporate and North America Headquarters is located in the Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta, GA, employing around 700 people. The office supports 31 operations worldwide and houses the executive leadership team and global functions.

The City of Atlanta provides a diverse and family-friendly environment with numerous cultural, educational, and community organizations, including the Georgia Aquarium, Woodruff Arts Center, CNN Center, Georgia Tech, and Mercedes-Benz Stadium. Novelis has strong community partnerships in the Atlanta area.