Director Of It, Brm (Industry 4.0)

The Director of IT, Business Relationship Management is a global position located in our Corporate HQ's in Atlanta, GA! Reporting to our VP of Global Business Functions and Enterprise Solutions, the individual will be relied upon to build strong relationships in all four of our global regions with a focus on digital manufacturing and the supply chain.

The leader in this space will work collaboratively with our Global Manufacturing organization, regional and global IT leaders, and regional Operations leaders.

A deep understanding and knowledge of both the current manufacturing systems landscape and Industry 4.0 is ideal, along with a passion for people and the manufacturing floor. This person will lead the design of our roadmaps that will expand our proven capabilities and incorporates advanced technologies, enabling Novelis’ 'Factory of the Future' vision of a highly connected, operationally intelligent manufacturing enterprise! This is an exceptional time to become part of our growing, sustainable, innovative organization!

Responsibilities:

Factory of the Future

• Measure and track site, regional, and global results.
• Support plant expansion projects addressing our growth strategy.
• Collaborate with leadership and cross-functional teams to enable competitive advantage through the definition and implementation of the technology components.
• Help to identify, develop, and coach Industry 4.0 regional champions.
• Understand technology requirements and design a playbook to deliver the results.
• Establishing agile, multi-year strategic IT roadmap of tools to advance the World Class Manufacturing strategy.
• Help to define Novelis’ Factory of the Future benefits, savings, and the measurement process.

Digital

• Develop, implement, and continuously improve the structure and processes, related to Digital Manufacturing transformation ensuring a clear path forward.
• Discover, experiment, lead, coordinate, and deliver digital initiatives across facilities globally.
• Proactively identify, manage, and escalate risks across projects, work streams, and programs.
• Responsible for the deployment and continuous improvement of portfolio and project management and accelerated continuous improvement practices aligned with transformation goals.
• Research emerging digital manufacturing technologies to address critical business and customer challenges.
• Develop and manage progress against the detailed digital roadmap by coordinating with cross-functional teammates and external partners.
• Champion change and look to improve processes by systematizing simplicity, agility, and sensible risk-taking.

Transformation Management

• Work with key stakeholders to develop a communication strategy, approach, and plan; including, but not limited to content guidelines and delivery cadence.
• Define an approach for managing change across the business in coordination with the delivery of technology projects.
• Promote learning in others by building relationships with cross-functional partners; listening and responding to, seeking, and addressing performance feedback; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; creating and executing plans to capitalize on strengths and improve opportunity areas; and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Strong facilitation skills lending to effectively guiding the business to identify needs and evaluating alternative solutions as required.
• Knowledge of Industry 4.0, IoT, and ITOT.
• Understanding of various technologies including applications and databases.
• Leadership experience in digital strategy deployment and use of new technologies in WCM facilities.
• Ability to decompose problems and opportunities when they may not be clearly defined.
• Ability to operate and communicate at a strategic level yet focus on details to drive successful execution and deliver value.
• Experience managing a team; preferably 5 years or more, including leading teams across the operations ecosystem within a global matrixed organization.
• 10+ years of experience leading IT innovation and strategic projects, preferably implementing large, sophisticated projects for a multi-national organization in a manufacturing environment, or similar.
• Bachelor's degree in a technical field (Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field).
• Proficiency in manufacturing stack systems (for example, architecture for L0-L5 systems).
• Proven success delivering projects in Agile, Waterfall, or SDLC environments, and effectively managing multiple large-scale, high-risk projects across a portfolio.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Validated ability to build and influence teams, mentor, and coach while proactively recognizing and removing obstacles on behalf of the teams.
• MBA or related advanced degree and 8+ years of leading strategic IT projects.
• Experience in the metals manufacturing industry.
• Knowledge of ISA-95 model, MES, AI, machine learning.

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:

• Employee assistance programs – available 24/7 to you and your family
• Paid vacation and competitive personal time off
• Company-paid basic life insurance and Additional voluntary life coverage
• 401(k) savings plan with company match
• Wellness and Work Life Support - career development and educational assistance
• Medical, dental and vision insurance
• Retirement savings plans – medical and prescription drug coverage through private exchange
• Health savings accounts – Company Funded Health Savings Account (HSA) and Health Reimbursement Account (HRA)