Portfolio Manager - Kennesaw - Novelis

Description

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 Novelis Research & Technology (R&T) team is seeking a Portfolio Manager. Reporting to the Head of Portfolio Management, this role plays a critical role in optimizing the Research & Technology (R&T) innovation portfolio to improve business impact, value creation, and sustainability. This role partners closely with R&T leadership, project managers, finance, and IT to enable data-driven decision-making through robust portfolio analytics, governance, and resource allocation.

The Portfolio Manager ensures effective execution of the stage-gate process, delivers actionable insights through advanced analytics and dashboards, and helps shift the organization from performance reporting to outcome-driven decision-making. As Novelis' global R&T organization continues to grow in complexity and scale, this role is essential in balancing priorities, managing risk, and aligning innovation investments with strategic objectives.

Responsibilities:

• Lead configuration requirements, optimization, and execution of portfolio and project management tools (e.g., Accolade, Power BI, etc.) to support R&D governance.
• Support, train, and facilitate stage-gate processes and gate reviews across the R&D portfolio.
• Develop and continuously improve portfolio management processes by leveraging existing data and collaborating with IT and cross-functional teams.
• Partner to oversee yearly operational and capital expense budget(s) associated with the portfolio.
• Provide leadership in analyzing, diagnosing, and recommending corrective action for product development challenges. Ensure successful planning and execution of strategic initiatives meeting milestone measurements, performance specifications, production costs, development budget, and goal scheduling.
• Ensure prioritization of projects to deliver the greatest return on resources (employee time, capital, etc) spent.
• Translate complex data into clear, compelling narratives using storyboarding and visualization techniques.
• Collaborate with external partners and benchmarking organizations to assess innovation best practices.

Qualifications:

• M.B.A or M.S. in Engineering/Materials Science and/or B. S. degree with 5+ years post graduate experience in managing multiple product development phases
• Experience in marketing/strategy
• Project management experience
• Ability to execute change management procedures
• Proven ability to effectively operate in a highly complex environment and deliver quality results
• Proven experience translating business needs into system or analytics requirements
• Advanced data analysis and financial analysis skills
• Excellent English communication and presentation skills

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, competitive in the marketplace, and affordable. These are a few of the benefits we offer to support you and your family's well-being:

• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• Health savings accounts – Company Funded Health Savings Account (HSA) and Health Reimbursement Account (HRA)
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Company-paid basic life insurance and Additional voluntary life coverage
• Paid vacation and competitive personal time off
• 401(k) savings plan with company match
• Retiree Medical Plans – medical and prescription drug coverage through Novelis sponsored Retiree Health Access
• Retirement Savings Account
• Employee assistance programs – available 24/7 to you and your family
• Wellness and Work Life Support - career development and educational assistance

Location Profile:

Novelis' Global Research and Technology Center located in Kennesaw Georgia within the greater Atlanta metropolitan area is a cutting-edge full-service research and technology hub that employs approximately 200 people including world-class engineers metallurgists chemists scientists technologists and technicians. The facility includes state-of-the-art lab equipment and a diverse mix of product pilot lines that bring innovative solutions to customers in the automotive beverage can and specialty markets. Kennesaw provides a diverse and family-friendly place to live with countless museums cultural opportunities and educational institutions. Novelis is committed to the Kennesaw community and supports a number of local charitable organizations including Habitat for Humanity as well as FIRST Robotics aimed at encouraging young people to pursue the Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields in order to spur the next generation of scientists and innovators.

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.