Procurement Purchasing Strategy Lead

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 13000 employees in 32 operating facilities on 4 continents.

The Novelis North America (NNA) Regional Procurement Team is seeking a Procurement Purchasing Strategy Lead. The Purchasing Strategy role is responsible for developing and implementing strategic procurement plans to optimize purchasing functions and drive organizational efficiency. This role involves leading process and redesign initiatives implementing sophisticated eProcurement technologies and encouraging a culture of continuous improvement. This role will collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless procurement operations and handle change initiatives to improve employee experience. By using innovative technologies and standard processes the Purchasing Strategy role will give to the overall strategic goals of the organization.

Responsibilities

• Implement the vision and strategy to increase efficiencies through process automation and enable the implementation of standardized service delivery models.
• Responsible for the maintenance and improvement of Purchasing systems used in NNA
• Research and investigate standard processes and procurement initiatives successfully used at other organizations
• Assess and determine applicability to Novelis
• Identify and implement outstanding purchasing processes procedures and KPIs.
• Implement target tools and systems (i.e. eProcurement Robotics Process Automation etc.) to improve effectiveness and efficiency in procurement and drive towards outstanding. Work collaboratively to define and detail business requirements support implementation.
• Define and maintain Purchasing Approval Workflows for Purchase Orders and Outline Agreements. Support root cause analysis in case of workflow failures.
• Cultivate use of shared tools to ensure Global view of regional procurement to enable figuring out leveraging processes standard methodology sharing and general information sharing. Recommend global / regional Source-to-Pay improvement initiatives on processes master data and trainings
• Have string business knowledge & systems knowledge
• Responsible for identifying additional efficiencies that can be driven with the system
• Responsible for leading the expansion of Coupa across NNA
• Deliver User Training of Coupa
• Support the case of Coupa in conjunction with Manager Purchasing Operations Finance & IT
• Define and implement training programs to enable target skills and proficiencies of individuals to support OCM activities relative to system implementations
• Build/maintain training curriculums courses Job Aids. Leverage uPerform.
• Collaborate with global/regional Super Users and other functions (i.e. Finance Supply Chain IT COE) to ensure that business scenarios are reflected correctly
• Coordinate and/or deliver training classes for global and regional end users (SAP-PGE PR/PO refresher training e-Sourcing e-Catalogs P2P Platform others)
• Assess and develop Digital Readiness of Procurement Organization
• Responsible for consolidating feedback from NNA Procurement leadership team to submit various monthly quarterly and annual reporting needs (ie. Monthly Dashboards SEC 10K Excellence Certificate Federal Contracts Reporting One Procurement Financials reporting MMOG/LE Submission for Automotive)

Minimum Qualifications

• 4-year bachelors degree Business / Engineering
• 5 years of experience in a procurement environment with understanding of P2P end to end process
• Strong background in Procurement processes technology and automation capabilities.
• Proven efficiency in project management skills and execution
• Project Management
• Ability to influence others.
• Executive presence
• Training development and delivery

Preferred Qualities

• MBA or other advanced degree
• PMP Certification
• Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certification
• 5 years experience leading and driving sophisticated global critical initiatives
• Experience in process development and implementation of Procurement specific technology
• Experience in leading large scale project teams
• Experience in leading sophisticated Change Management programs

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 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

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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 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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