Executive Compensation Lead

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

Novelis is seeking an Executive Compensation Lead to serve as the company's subject matter authority for executive compensation and long-term incentives. This highly visible role sits at the center of some of the organization's most strategic talent, governance, and compensation decisions, partnering with senior executives, the Compensation Committee, Board partners, Finance, Legal, HR, and external advisors.

Responsibilities

• Determine how Novelis rewards performance, retains top leadership talent, aligns executive interests with shareholders, and drives long-term business success.
• As the lead authority on executive compensation, you'll guide the programs, analyses, governance activities, and recommendations that support Novelis' senior leadership population.
• Partner directly with senior leaders and HR executives on high-impact compensation decisions
• Develop compelling, executive-ready analyses and recommendations for leadership, the Compensation Committee, and the Board of Directors
• Lead executive compensation planning, administration, and governance activities
• Evaluate market competitiveness through executive benchmarking and peer-group analysis
• Support executive employment arrangements, special awards, incentive programs, retention strategies, and separation-related compensation matters
• Partner with Legal, Finance, and external advisors on governance, compliance, market practices, and emerging compensation trends
• Lead annual and off-cycle equity award activities
• Lead all aspects of grants, vestings, performance units, exercises, payouts, participant eligibility, and sophisticated employee events
• Define the operating model between Global Compensation, shared services, vendors, and partners
• Develop controls, governance processes, critical issue pathways, and service standards
• Translate business results and performance outcomes into accurate participant awards and communications
• Drive process improvements, system enhancements, operational perfection, and risk mitigation
• Serve as the go-to guide for complex participant, tax, payroll, retirement, and termination scenarios
• Annual compensation planning
• Incentive plan design and administration
• Promotions and organizational changes
• Retention strategies
• Off-cycle compensation recommendations
• Global market pricing
• Competitive positioning
• Compensation policy interpretation
• Build sophisticated compensation and incentive models
• Evaluate executive pay positioning and competitiveness
• Analyze performance and payout scenarios
• Reconcile large datasets and identify exceptions
• Assess financial, governance, and operational impacts
• Present findings in a way that influences action

Minimum qualifications

• 5-10+ years of dynamic compensation experience
• Significant experience supporting executive compensation, long-term incentives, equity programs, or global compensation initiatives
• Experience partnering with executives and senior business leaders
• Exposure to Compensation Committee, Board, governance, or public-company compensation activities strongly preferred
• Advanced Excel and data analytics capabilities
• Strong financial and quantitative proficiency
• Ability to build models, reconcile complex data, and identify meaningful insights
• Experience working with compensation systems, HR systems, and compensation planning tools
• Exceptional ability to lead through expertise rather than authority
• Strong consulting, influencing, and stakeholder-management skills
• Proven ability to coordinate across HR, Finance, Legal, Payroll, HRIS, Mobility, vendors, and shared services
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to translate technical compensation, legal, financial, tax, and regulatory concepts into clear business recommendations
• Confidence presenting to senior leaders and executive audiences

Preferred qualifications

• Executive compensation strategy and administration
• Long-term incentive and equity programs
• Market pricing and compensation benchmarking
• Incentive plan design and governance
• Compensation disclosures and regulatory support
• Global compensation principles and practices
• Please note that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future sponsorship

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 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 - Novelis2. Verify any communication with us by contacting our talent team at Careers - Novelis