Template​/External Requisition Title Supply Chain Analyst, Master Planning

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.

The Novelis North America Supply Chain team is looking for a Supply Chain Analyst to join their team! This is a contract position with an expected end date of June 30th, 2026. The work hours for this position are M-F 8am-5pm.

Responsibilities:

• Trouble shoot issues planning reported by AMS, production center planners and tolling planners, for the assigned product line. Investigate the issue; resolve it or document it and intensify as appropriate.
• Systematically review concordance between SAP data and S&OP. Partner with Facility Planning teams to assure efficient metal flow to our customers. Monitor order bookings versus S&OP and available capacity. Recommend lead time changes when appropriate.
• Coordinate product route changes to react to unplanned outages or anticipated capacity constraints. Determine products involved. Initiate and supervise the associated MDM (Master Data Management) requests.
• Supervise SAP alerts (surplus, late, early, etc.) to identify system issues and work with production center planners to take appropriate action.
• Systematically review order status and metal position in SAP, from procurement of sheet ingot to delivery to customer, to ensure timely production. Take corrective action, coordinating with production center planners.
• Initiate MDM requests to accurate process / order planning parameters (lot size, lead time, etc.)
• Review lead time by product to ensure order alignment with manufacturing lead time
• Review historical planned vs. actual lead time by products.
• Work with facility planning teams to expedite any hot / rush orders through production
• Partner with plant process/quality engineers to assure accuracy of master data parameters (e.g. equipment run rates, yields, etc.) for each product specifications.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration or similar subject area with exposure to supply chain management through experience and/or course work
• 2-5 years related experience in multinational manufacturing company, similar industry is preferred
• Excellent communication (oral and written) skills; ability to connect with all levels in the organization and work in a team environment.
• Desire to take initiative and develop a pro-active relationship with customers (internal & external) through follow-up, understanding their needs and encouraging a synergetic relationship
• Must be flexible and able to operate in a fast-paced environment
• Prior SAP Experience, particularly in APO strongly preferred
• Ability to manipulate, cleanse and analyze large amounts of data in Excel
• Ability to extract data from SAP APO, analyze the data in Excel and draw conclusions and recommendations
• Proven understanding of SAP APO planning parameters and their interaction in the timely execution of orders.
• Proven digital literacy. Proven understanding of Microsoft Office. Ability to learn new software programs quickly
• Must also possess leadership skills to direct, lead and develop other personnel to accomplish personal, plant and corporate objectives
• Ability to be onsite 5 days a week
• Ability to work overtime as needed

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 Georgia

FIRST 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…