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.

Responsibilities & Qualifications

Position Overview:

If you like a dynamic environment, have experience working with leaders, driving change, and have supported manufacturing or R&D teams, this job might be a good fit for you. The Human Resource Business Partner (HRBP) will be responsible for providing a wide range of HR services to client groups within the Global R&D and Manufacturing Excellence teams. This role reports to the Director of HR for Global R&D and Manufacturing Excellence and will be based in the Novelis offices in Buckhead and Kennesaw in the Atlanta area. The selected candidate will need to be able to travel to both the Atlanta and Kennesaw location weekly.

The key responsibilities of this role include day-to-day support to client groups, managers and employees, including organization planning and design, compensation, partnering in recruitment and selection, employee relations, change management and talent management practices.

The HRBP is responsible for driving key strategic HR initiatives within assigned client groups, by partnering effectively and building trust with leaders and employees.

A successful HRBP will be a leader that lives the Novelis Culture Beliefs: Say Anything, Be Open, Build Trust, Be Authentic, and act as an employee champion and change agent who can quickly build trust of both managers and employees. The HRBP assesses and anticipates HR-related trends, needs and communicates to business leaders proactively, solutioning on all people related topics, and leveraging the HR model and partnership with HR COEs.

In addition, this role will identify opportunities for process improvement within HR practices, research best practice solutions, recommend actions and implement initiatives and associated change management, as well as participate and/or lead other special projects as identified.

The successful candidate for this role is someone proactive, driven, with the ability to lead and work independently, and who thrives in complex and fast paced environments that require agility, strategic thinking and execution.

Responsibilities:

• Coach leaders: provide guidance and coaching to business leaders on a variety of employee related issues and situations.

• Day-to-day support to client groups: provide support to employees and managers for timely completion of HR processes.

• Talent management: drive talent management initiatives in partnership with Talent Management/Learning COEs, in support of employee development and engagement across client groups.

• Compensation: this position will need to make decisions and recommendations that balance the needs of the employee and objectives of the Company, as well as work on internal compensation requirements (i.e. job evaluation, etc.)

• Employee relations: lead confidently and independently employee relations issues and partner with leaders and employees as needed.

• Talent Acquisition: responsible for partnering with Talent Acquisition COE to acquire the best talent for Novelis. The HRBP is engaged in the hiring practices, partnering and coaching leaders, and working closely with TA on all openings in client groups.

• Lead special HR projects: this role will work closely with the HR director to lead special projects across Global R&D and Manufacturing Excellence. These projects will be global in scope and require a senior and experienced HR professional able to navigate a matrix organization, build trust and work proactively with a wide variety of stakeholders. Project management experience is valuable.

• HR critical and analytical thinking: this role is expected to be proactive in understand the business, the client groups, and identifying trends, developing solutions.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Human Resources or related field from an accredited college or university, or equivalent experience.

• Minimum 8 years of progressive human resources experience (ideally in both COE and HRBP roles).

• Strong Change Management experience, creating and executing HR plans, and working with leaders across a variety of client groups

• Experience with project management practices, coaching leaders, problem solving and execution in a high pace environment.

• Self-motivation to get results and complete tasks independently

• Excellent communication (oral and written) skills; ability to communicate with all levels in the organization clearly and concisely

• Must be able to organize and prioritize workload and balance multiple tasks at once without sacrificing attention to detail.

• Solid or advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office software: excel and PowerPoint.

Additional qualifications:

• Experience supporting teams across various regions, countries, locations.

• HR Certifications (SPHR, etc.).

• Experience leading and influencing formally and informally teams.

• Experience with analytics tools and reporting in order to assess state of organization

• Ability to create HR Business project plans, change management plans, and leverage analytics and research for business valuable solutions.

• Experience with HR systems (HRIS, iCIMS, etc.)

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)

• Company-paid basic life insurance and Additional voluntary life coverage

• Paid vacation and competitive personal time off

• 401(k) savings plan with company match

• Retirement savings plans - medical and prescription drug coverage through private exchange

• Employee assistance programs - available 24/7 to you and your family

• Wellness and Work Life Support - career development and educational assistance!

This role offers a hybrid schedule and offers flexibility (minimum 3 days in office). Our hybrid approach is designed to foster employee work-life balance and powers connection, collaboration, and a sense of community among our teams.

Disclaimer:

We encourage all potential candidates to follow the protocols below and to be diligent when sharing any personal information:

• Check the job posting is live and valid via our careers page: Careers - Novelis

• Verify any communication with us by contacting our talent team at Careers - Novelis

Location Profile

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.

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 - Novelis
2. Verify any communication with us by contacting our talent team at Careers - Novelis