Supply Chain Leader Job at Novelis Berea Manufacturing Facility
Position Overview:
Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, Novelis has approximately 14,650 employees in 33 operating facilities on four continents and is making significant capital investments in recycling and rolling capacity in North America to meet an ascending customer demand.
The Novelis North America (NNA) team is seeking a Supply Chain Leader. The person in this role will report to the Senior Manager Supply Chain Operations or Manager Supply Chain Operations. The Supply Chain Leader is responsible for leading, planning, and handling all aspects of the plant’s metal supply (incoming and outgoing) including tactical and long-term strategic planning. They lead and advise the work of the Plant Supply Chain team with 2-6 direct reports. The position owns metal planning management, implementing these plans in support of world class manufacturing practices with emphasis on safety, quality, production, collaboration, and cost. The position is responsible for ensuring demand and production plans are in alignment, optimizing processes and material flow for production specific to the plant supply network, and business collaborating with each manufacturing unit to implement improvement plans related to inventory, cycle time, and overall plant performance metrics. The incumbent will collaborate with the commercial and manufacturing organizations to develop a balanced demand and capacity plan as well as operating direction and coordination for material flow to other Novelis Plants and/or External Processors. In addition, they will work daily with the Plant Manager, Manufacturing Unit Managers, S&OP team, Recycling/Procurement, and Operations Planning personnel to ensure a consistent and balanced view of Plant demand and capacity. Responsibilities & Qualifications:
Supply Chain Leader (Plant Based)
Novelis is the world leader in aluminum rolling and recycling, producing an estimated 19 percent of the world's flat-rolled aluminum products. We work alongside our customers to provide innovative solutions to the aerospace, beverage can, automotive and high-end specialty markets.
Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, Novelis has approximately 14,650 employees in 33 operating facilities on four continents and is making significant capital investments in recycling and rolling capacity in North America to meet an ascending customer demand.
The Novelis North America (NNA) team is seeking a Supply Chain Leader. The person in this role will report to the Senior Manager Supply Chain Operations or Manager Supply Chain Operations. The Supply Chain Leader is responsible for leading, planning, and handling all aspects of the plant’s metal supply (incoming and outgoing) including tactical and long-term strategic planning. They lead and advise the work of the Plant Supply Chain team with 2-6 direct reports. The position owns metal planning management, implementing these plans in support of world class manufacturing practices with emphasis on safety, quality, production, collaboration, and cost. The position is responsible for ensuring demand and production plans are in alignment, optimizing processes and material flow for production specific to the plant supply network, and business collaborating with each manufacturing unit to implement improvement plans related to inventory, cycle time, and overall plant performance metrics. The incumbent will collaborate with the commercial and manufacturing organizations to develop a balanced demand and capacity plan as well as operating direction and coordination for material flow to other Novelis Plants and/or External Processors. In addition, they will work daily with the Plant Manager, Manufacturing Unit Managers, S&OP team, Recycling/Procurement, and Operations Planning personnel to ensure a consistent and balanced view of Plant demand and capacity.
Responsibilities:
- Understanding demand and capacity planning of metal inputs, flow, and inventory
- Reporting and analyzing all aspects of metal inputs, flow, and inventory positions
- Efficiently operating, and getting results, within a matrix organization
- Promoting innovation and passion for moving the business forward within their team
- Developing themselves and their teams through continuous improvement exercises
- Develop and lead plant supply chain team to deliver the plant key performance metrics including production, shipments (OTIF), and inventory (Cash flow)
- Serve as a member of the Plant Manager’s leadership team representing Supply Chain
- Lead direct reports on day-to-day activities, job duties, and in making process route changes in response to planned or unplanned outages.
- Submit requests for creation of new routes as advised. Complete the vital transactions to change routes of material in process.
- Ensure demand is in appropriate planning system (i.e. SAP PGS) after a planning run
- Check daily status of materials in the planning system, anticipate delivery problems & proactively connect with Internal Customers.
- Provide weekly estimates of on time and full delivery (OTIF), anticipate delivery misses & proactively communicate to Planner/Schedulers and Tolling Planners to prioritize and expedite orders
- Communicate updated projected delivery dates to Internal Customers.
- Provide daily plant updates to Senior Manager, Supply Chain Operations and/or Manager, Supply Chain
- Take efforts to identify and dispose of obsolete inventory and seek opportunities to reapply to new orders. When found, complete within the appropriate planning systems (i.e. SAP/MES) processes to reapply
- Following standard processes and policies, scrap material for which no uses can be found and expedite physical return
- Proactively detect and remedy discrepancies between planning system (i.e. SAP) and physical inventory. Remedy the discrepancies and submit the appropriate tickets to IT so that the event is logged. Proactively pursue with technical organizations the resolution of quality holds so that material does not become obsolete.
- Provide team with system transaction training, help and troubleshooting as needed
- Proactively seek opportunities to improve Supply Chain processes. Document the case for the changes and advance within the Supply Chain organization.
- Keep logs of exceptions to allow Pareto of reasons for delivery misses and stagnant inventory
- Work with Supply Chain team to detect and fix systemic reasons for delivery misses and stagnant inventory
- Participate in testing of major and minor planning system (i.e. SAP) changes
Challenges of the position include:
- Leading and coordinating a sustainable supply chain department in a modern environment that involves coordination across different corporate organizations, product lines and operating locations
- Meeting inventory targets (cash flow) and sales objectives, while maintaining a high level of customer service
- Influencing operational flow across the plant to improve throughput across the critical assets and become a trusted and valued resource across the plant with expertise and solutions for metal mix, flow, scrap processing, staging, improved production, quality, and cost.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in supply chain management, Business Administration, similar subject area, or equivalent work experience.
- 5 years of supply chain related experience in manufacturing company preferred
- Leadership skills to direct, lead and develop team members to accomplish personal, plant, and corporate objectives
- Leadership ability to resolved issues, involve others in problem solving/decision making activities, and create a culture aligned with Novelis cultural beliefs
- Excellent analytical skills: ability to extract data and draw conclusions and recommendations
- Excellent communication (oral and written) skills; ability to connect with all levels in the organization
- Standout colleague with strong interpersonal and customer service skills
- Pro-active and flexible, able to operate in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to organize and prioritize workload; must be able to handle multiple tasks at once without sacrificing attention to detail
- Proven track record to get results and engagement among their team
- ERP Experience, SAP an asset
- Must be willing and able to travel as needed
What We Offer:
This role offers a
hybrid schedule with a minimum of two days in the office
. Novelis values the need for flexibility and balance for employees and is committed to a Flex Work approach that empowers employees to maintain work-life balance while enjoying the benefits of a collaborative office environment. Novelis values the need for flexibility and balance for employees.
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
Novelis recognizes its hard-working 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, state, or local laws.
This role offers a
hybrid schedule. Novelis is committed to a Flex Work approach that empowers employees to maintain work-life balance while enjoying the benefits of a collaborative office environment.
Location Profile:
Novelis’ Berea facility is located in Berea Kentucky near Lexington. With 140 employees the recycling facility processes approximately 20 percent of all aluminum cans recycled in the United States each year – more than 750 million pounds. Berea is best known for its art festivals historic restaurants and buildings and as the home to Berea College and nearby Eastern Kentucky University. The recently built Kentucky Artisan Center hosts a wide variety of works by Kentucky artisans. In 2019 Novelis was named one of the Best Places to Work in Kentucky by the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce and the Kentucky Society for Human Resource Management. The Berea team provides direct donations to more than 20 local organizations and schools including United Way Sustainable Berea Madison County Schools Eastern Kentucky University Berea College and Habitat for Humanity. 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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