Senior Counsel, Global Contracts - Novelis Corporate HQ

Company 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.

Position Overview

The Legal team, located in Atlanta, Georgia, is seeking a Senior Counsel, Global Contracts. The Senior Counsel, Global Contracts maintains responsibilities within two key areas: (a) Global Contracts Management Center of Excellence (COE) Support and (b) Global Procurement.

Responsibilities

• Support and advance the formation of a global contracts management COE compliance strategy and the implementation of new contracts lifecycle management technology to modernize legal service delivery
• Lead and implement the global contracts management COE compliance strategy and establish best-in-class procedures for efficient global contracts management
• Hire, develop, mentor, evaluate, and manage a team of global contract managers that provide contract support and reliable and consistent feedback on key legal issues and matters, with an ability to adapt to changing business needs across regions, COEs, and other business sectors
• Formulate contracting improvement projects, including maintaining the global contracts management policy, developing clause language and clause libraries, refreshing contract playbooks with fallback positions and guidance, and drafting standardized contract templates with optimized language in support of the modernization of Novelis’ contracts program
• Use the advancement of groundbreaking subject areas involving artificial intelligence and robust data analytics in support of the contracting COE data initiatives, including the governance, process execution, and adoption of the new contracts lifecycle management technology globally
• Draft and rollout a global training program to deliver focused training for contracts management procedures across corporate and regional partner groups
• Develop a set of comprehensive metrics to drive process improvement and optimize COE maturity, including contract cycle times, contract risk scoring, business partner satisfaction, and global trainings
• Drive alignment among legal and procurement teams globally and across the regions for contract administration, negotiation, and the management of legal risk

• Collaborate with key collaborators to understand their legal needs and align to legal and business strategy

• Establish a team-oriented approach with legal and business collaborators to eliminate workflow redundancies while prioritizing the efficient delivery of legal advice and analysis of procurement-related contracts
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with internal stakeholders
• Support other members of the corporate legal team on a variety of matters, such as M&A, securities financings, joint ventures, strategic projects, IT, derivatives, compliance, and real estate

Minimum qualifications

• Juris Doctor
• Minimum 8 years of experience in the drafting, formation, negotiation, and management of contracts
• Experience as the lead contract negotiator in a complex sales or procurement transactions
• Minimum 5 years of related business and managerial experience
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications and facility with legal and contract management technology and tools
• Excellent drafting and writing skills, including both formal contract drafting and plain English summaries and explanations
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to translate complex legal issues into identifiable and understandable commercial risks and benefits
• Top-notch legal competence and analytical skills, tempered by practical and common-sense judgment
• Ability to examine issues, make appropriate decisions and ensure prompt actions to ensure data integrity
• Ability to work with and efficiently and cost-effectively manage the use of outside counsel
• Ability and gravitas to direct a team of skilled contract managers
• Strong eye for business in critical thinking, with ability to understand the company's business and anticipate the nature and magnitude of issues that could arise in various settings.
• An ownership mentality, exceptional follow through skills, flexibility in adopting frequent change in all forms
• Strong leadership skills in a customer service intensive environment
• Ability and desire to work in a global, fast-paced, and dynamic work environment that requires multi-tasking as well as an operational approach
• Experience interacting with members of all levels of an organization, including executive officers, as well as with key suppliers and customers.
• Self-motivated, flexible, and efficient working style with the ability to lead complex project with exciting priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Efficiently coordinate complex workflows and processes by efficiently delegating tasks to contract managers
• Provide mentorship and guidance to staff members related to their responsibilities, expectations, and career development, including the provision of constructive feedback on each individual’s work product and performance
• Meticulous work product with a focus on detail and ability to identify and resolve issues independently

Preferred qualifications

• 10+ years in the drafting, formation, negotiation, and management of contracts
• Experience drafting and negotiating IT-related agreements and software licenses
• Experience with a global manufacturing company
• Proficiency in legal technology, including contracts lifecycle management, document, and knowledge management, 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, 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!

This role offers a hybrid schedule. Our hybrid approach is designed to foster employee work-life balance and powers connection, collaboration, and a sense of community among our teams.

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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 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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