Shape Your World
At Alcoa, you will become an essential part of our purpose: to turn raw potential into real progress. The way we see it, every Alcoan is a work-shaper, team-shaper, idea-shaper & world-shaper.
Reporting to the North America Investment Projects leadership team, you are responsible for ensuring strategic alignment and portfolio optimization across our North American operations.
You are accountable for maximizing value creation by balancing business priorities, operational constraints, and execution capacity. You play a central role in investment governance by providing leadership with robust analyses and well-informed recommendations.
Key responsibilities include:
- Translate business strategy into a structured investment portfolio
Develop short-, medium-, and long-term roadmaps aligned with operational and strategic priorities.
- Optimize the portfolio and capital allocation
Define and apply prioritization criteria (value, risk, compliance, EHS, growth) to maximize return on investment.
- Lead demand, capacity planning, and scenario analysis
Analyze dependencies, constraints, and scenarios (sequencing, deferral, acceleration) to ensure overall project delivery.
- Drive governance and support executive decision-making
Prepare and present decision packages (options, risks, impacts, benefits) and facilitate portfolio review forums.
- Monitor portfolio performance and benefits realization
Track progress, expenditures, and benefits realization, providing clear visibility to stakeholders.
- Strengthen portfolio management practices and maturity
Optimize processes, tools, and metrics, and contribute to the evolution of Project and Portfolio Management (PPM) practices.
What you bring to the role:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Finance, or Business Administration;
- MBA or Master’s degree (an asset);
- 10 years of experience in portfolio, program, or investment project management in a multi-site industrial environment;
- Experience in CAPEX planning (budgeting, 3-year/long-term planning) and prioritization in a context of competing demands;
- Strong expertise in financial analysis, business case development, ROI, and complex scenario modeling, with the ability to synthesize information for decision-making;
- Proficiency with tools (e.g., GCMS), advanced Excel skills, and understanding of stage-gate / FEL processes;
- Bilingualism (French and English) is required due to the nature of the role, including interactions with stakeholders across North America;
- Ability to influence, facilitate complex decisions, and engage multidisciplinary stakeholders in an ambiguous environment.
In this posting, the masculine form is used for ease of reading.
Alcoa is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and an affirmative action employer.
We also support global inclusion groups (AWARE, AWN, EAGLE, ABLE).
Only candidates selected for the process will be contacted.
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About the Location
Alcoa’s Canadian headquarters in Montreal is located in the economic lung of Quebec, in the heart of a dynamic city young, and at the forefront of innovation. Working for Alcoa in Montreal means getting to the heart of issues in the Quebec, Canadian and international context. Our company supports career development and there are many opportunities for our team to progress.
We are values led, vision driven and united by our purpose of transforming raw potential into real progress. Our commitments to Inclusion, Diversity & Equity include providing trusting workplaces that are safe, respectful and inclusive of all individuals, free from discrimination, bullying and harassment and that our workplaces reflect the diversity of the communities in which we operate.
This is a place where you are empowered to do your best work, be your authentic self, and feel a true sense of belonging. Come join us and shape your career!
Your work. Your world. Shape them for the better.
