Supply Chain Leader, Near Term Planning

Novelis

• $110K — $130K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in supply chain management, business, engineering, or related field.
  • 5-7 years of supply chain experience in the metals industry with leadership experience.
  • Strong knowledge of supply chain methods for inventory, delivery, and capacity.
  • Excellent analytical skills to translate data into business insights.
  • Strong communication and relationship-building skills at all organizational levels.
  • Ability to respond flexibly and judiciously to material flow disruptions.
  • Effective people-leadership skills for team development and stakeholder influence.

Responsibilities

  • Create timely near-term production plans balancing demand, supply, and inventory.
  • Resolve production capacity issues by coordinating material and inventory adjustments.
  • Monitor supply-demand balance, identifying and addressing constraints proactively.
  • Develop performance indicators and visual reports on operations and forecasts.
  • Provide insights to leadership to enable informed decision-making.
  • Hold teams accountable for sales, production, and inventory targets.
  • Develop team members through training, coaching, and feedback.

Benefits

  • Paid parental leave and adoption assistance.
  • Free Employee Assistance Programs for mental health and family support.
  • Incentives for wellness activities and a wellness spending account.
  • Unique programs like pet insurance and identity theft protection.
  • Tuition assistance and career development programs.
  • Comprehensive childcare discounts and nursing mother support.
Full Job Description
Position Overview

The Novelis Supply Chain team is seeking a Supply Chain Leader, Near Term Planning to lead weekly production and capacity planning, inventory planning, and near-term supply-demand balancing across the manufacturing network. This role will report to the Senior Manager, Integrated Planning and lead a team of approximately two employees. The ideal candidate will translate facility, demand, and sales and operations planning inputs into a balanced and feasible one-to-eight-week production plan; resolve constraints through material-flow changes, inventory deployment, operational countermeasures, and demand alignment; and provide clear performance insights to stakeholders. This position will enable realistic facility plans, reduce plant-level prioritization conflicts, and support stable material flow across the network.

Responsibilities

  • Create and submit timely near-term production plans for each facility in the network, balancing demand, supply, capacity, and inventory.
  • Resolve overloaded or underloaded conditions by coordinating material rerouting, inventory use, operational constraint removal, and demand shifts with cross-functional stakeholders.
  • Monitor network supply-demand balance and identify constraints early, initiating countermeasures with Operations, Commercial, Supply Chain, Finance, and Recycling teams.
  • Develop and manage key performance indicators and visual reporting for plan performance, customer requirements, demand forecasts, capacity utilization, and inventory.
  • Provide regular insights and reports to network leadership and cross-functional teams to enable informed decision-making.
  • Hold stakeholders accountable to agreed sales, production, supplier-performance, and inventory targets established through annual planning and sales and operations planning
  • Develop team members through training, coaching, feedback, and targeted assignments.
  • Lead supply chain development of next-generation Near Term Planning / Sales & Operations Execution software and business practices.
  • Serve as primary backup to the Senior Manager for end-to-end planning responsibilities

Minimum Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in supply chain management, business, engineering, computer science with a supply chain focus, or a comparable field.
  • Five to seven years of supply chain experience in the metals industry, including experience in a leadership role.
  • Strong knowledge of supply chain methods used to manage inventory, customer delivery, and capacity utilization.
  • Excellent analytical skills, including the ability to analyze data, draw conclusions, and translate findings into a business context.
  • Excellent communication, collaboration, and relationship-building skills across all levels of an organization and with internal and external customers.
  • Demonstrated flexibility, urgency, and sound judgment when responding to disruptions in material flow.
  • Strong people-leadership skills, with the ability to develop a direct team and influence stakeholders outside the team.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience supporting metals manufacturing operations.
  • Association for Supply Chain Management certification.
  • Experience with SAP or similar MRP system.
  • Experience navigating data warehousing.

*Please note that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future sponsorship

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 affordable. In 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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Location Profile

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 Stadium. In 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.

Disclaimer We encourage all potential candidates to follow the protocols below and to be diligent when sharing any personal information:1. Check the job posting is live and valid via our careers page: Careers - Novelis2. Verify any communication with us by contacting our talent team at Careers - Novelis

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