Marcel Novosad graduated from the Technical University of Košice in 1992. He studied iron and steel production at the Faculty of Metallurgy and in the same year he started working in the former VSZ. He began as a converter operator and in 1993 he became converter shift supervisor in Steel Shop #1. Three years later he took up the position of secondary metallurgy supervisor, and he was briefly converter lines manager. In 2002 he became operation manager for Steel Shop #1 and a year later he was appointed manager for production technology at the Steel Shops Division. In August 2005 he went to the USA, where he worked in several operations of the United States Steel Corporation. First, he was operations manager at the North Steel Shop at Gary Works, and then in 2006 he was promoted to division manager at the North Steel Shop. In 2007 he accepted the post of Senior Process Leader for converters, ladle furnace and degassing plant at the Edgar Thomson Works. He returned to Košice in 2008, and worked for over a year as Director Blast Furnaces Division. From May 2009 until October 2014 he held the post of General Manager Primary. He has been U. S. Steel Košice Vice President Operations since November 1st, 2014.

 He has research interests on Material Science, Production, Metallurgy