Corporate Sustainability Manager

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 Corporate Sustainability team, located in Atlanta, GA is seeking a Corporate Sustainability Manager. The purpose of this role is to support the development, governance, and execution of Novelis’ global sustainability initiatives through data integrity, dashboard ownership, audit support, and methodology refinement. Act as a subject matter expert (SME) in carbon accounting and sustainability reporting, ensuring clarity and alignment across global and regional efforts.

Responsibilities

Americas: Novelis Sustainability Point of Contact

• The connection between corporate sustainability and strategic project leads.
• Partners with strategic project leads to drive data governance ownership in operations and metal as a single source coordinator to support data integrity for Novelis that enables corporate sustainability audits and external communication on critical metrics.
• Understands recycled content and carbon footprint methodology alignment globally to coordinate and support region implementation of any methodology changes.
• Support external and internal communication of customer-specific reporting with the regional commercial team.

Industry Advocacy

• Lead engagement with EA and ASI on LCA, carbon footprinting, RC and circularity topics; leverage engagement opportunities with ACLCA and US AA to build knowledge and raise own profile within these industry groups
• Lead engagement with European Aluminum on LCA topics in my position as Vice Chair of the LCA Committee and proactively leverage opportunities to raise personal profile within these industry groups.
• Leverage LCA training and engagement opportunities to develop knowledge and understanding of LCA . ACLCA and US AA.
• Influence the development of PEFCR for aluminum
• Understand PEF application for aluminum. Where this methodology impacts the commercial teams and how our customers might expect our reporting against the standard
• Represent Novelis in the ASI climate change working group, communicating our POV and sharing back information internally

Lead the refinement of the governance and execution of the Commercial Sustainability Service Model for customer reporting

• Develop and maintain knowledge documents for implementation of sustainability service model
• Collaborate with regional commercial teams to align priorities, strategic customers and decisions on engagement level offerings
• Scale the operating model to all regions and supervise change management
• SME in customer centric carbon footprint reporting and recycled content

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science, Sustainability, Engineering, Public Policy, or related field.
• Minimum 8–10 years of experience in sustainability, ESG strategy, or environmental data management.
• Demonstrated experience in industry advocacy, audit coordination, and sustainability program management.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and partner engagement abilities.
• Proficiency in sustainability reporting frameworks and tools (., CDP, GHG Protocol, LCA software).
• Experience in developing and scaling global programs and service models.
• Familiarity with industry standards such as ASI, EA, ACLCA, and PEFCR.
• Ability to lead complex projects and drive cross-functional alignment.
• Comfortable representing the company in external forums and influencing industry direction.
• Proficient in English

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced Degree preferred
• In-depth knowledge of environmental regulations and standards.
• Proven experience in leading and handling large-scale sustainability projects.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

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 and North America Headquarters is located in the Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta GA employing around 700 people. Supporting it’s 31 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. Novelis provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and 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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