Vice President, Global Energy

Shape your world at Alcoa, where you will become an essential part of our purpose: to turn raw potential into real progress. As a leader, you can help fulfill our vision to build a legacy of excellence for future generations by influencing how Alcoa secures reliable, competitive, and sustainable energy supply to support our operations and long-term strategy.

About the Role

Reporting to the Chief Commercial Officer, you will lead Alcoa’s global energy organization and set the enterprise direction for energy strategy, commercial optimization, and energy risk management across North America, South America, Europe, Africa, and Australia. You will work closely with senior leaders across Operations, Finance, Legal, Sustainability, and regional teams to align priorities with Alcoa’s global strategy, creating long-term commercial value and strengthening energy security.

• Develop and execute Alcoa’s enterprise-wide energy strategy, including governance, frameworks, risk management, and sustainability.
• Lead global energy procurement, commercial negotiations, contracting strategies, and external stakeholder relationship management across regional energy markets.
• Optimize energy costs and supply arrangements to support operational competitiveness across Alcoa’s global portfolio.
• Monitor energy markets, regulatory change, geopolitical risk, and emerging industry trends to inform strategic decisions and commercial opportunities.
• Lead enterprise energy risk management, including market exposure, investment strategies, long-term supply planning, and governance.
• Support strategic growth, business development, and potential acquisition integration activities, including preparation for integrating assets into Alcoa’s global energy portfolio.
• Build capability, alignment, and disciplined execution across a geographically dispersed global energy team.

Requirements

As a commercially astute, purpose-driven, and enterprise-minded energy leader, you will bring deep market knowledge, strong judgment, and the ability to translate insight into practical strategy and disciplined execution. To be successful, you will have:

• Significant senior leadership experience in energy procurement, energy markets, commodity management, or commercial leadership within a global heavy industrial or electro-intensive industrial organization.
• Deep understanding of electricity, natural gas, renewable energy, and broader energy commodities, including regulatory frameworks, commercial contracting, and supplier negotiations.
• Proven capability in energy risk management, market analytics, commercial optimization, and long-term supply planning.
• Demonstrated success leading and developing geographically dispersed, multicultural teams and aligning regional execution with enterprise strategy.
• Confident executive-level communication and influencing skills, with the ability to partner effectively with internal stakeholders.
• Experience supporting mergers, acquisitions, business development, or large-scale integration initiatives.
• Knowledge of the South African energy market, regulatory environment, commercial landscape, and key stakeholders would be highly beneficial.

Benefits

This is a rare opportunity to shape a globally significant energy portfolio and influence strategic decisions that directly support Alcoa’s competitiveness, sustainability ambitions, and long-term value creation. You will work with senior leaders across the business, lead a global team, and play a critical role in positioning Alcoa for future growth in a dynamic energy landscape.

About the Location

Alcoa is an international company with multiple locations and joint ventures across six continents. Wherever you choose to join, you’ll be part of a global team committed to advancing sustainability and delivering excellence and innovation. As industry pioneers, we are redefining what it means to be a sustainable aluminum company, bridging the journey from mines to metal.