Senior Manager, Business Transformation & Value Delivery, North America

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 Novelis North America (NNA) team 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 be responsible for establishing the governance, tracking, risk management, issue escalation, and leadership routines needed to deliver measurable value across the region.  This is a high-impact opportunity to help 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.

This is a role of influence, responsible for enabling transformational growth and measurable business value through the transformation project portfolio. The role goes beyond traditional program management; 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 who connects 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 that provides 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, ensuring leaders have the insights and decision support needed to drive transformation outcomes.

 

Sustainability & Global Alignment

• Partner closely with the