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Our area mission is to produce cement, aggregates, concrete and additional products that will satisfy the highest global safety standards while having the least possible environmental impact. It is our duty and our objective to provide customers with superior products while operating efficiently and sustainably.
Challenge
We aim to understand our customers’ needs and meet their expectations through creative, flexible solutions that ensure their satisfaction with our products and services. We take pride in our ability to continually innovate in the use of alternative fuels and energy.
This is a constant challenge that keeps our teams busy: we are responsible for ensuring our people’s security and productive capacity, and so every change must meet our rigorous operational safety standards.
We operate according to a zero accident policy: We aim to send everyone safely home to their family every day. And we are continually challenged to maintain our plants and quarries in optimum condition for daily production while adjusting production levels to market conditions.
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Operations offers a fulfilling long-term career path, providing you with the opportunity to work in areas ranging from sand and gravel extraction to cement production, maintenance and quality, to ready-mix production and quality.
Most team leaders are promoted from within the company, so expect to become an industry expert. A background in engineering or science is often required to join this team, as well as the ability to learn fast, work in a team, and manage employees and customers.
You must be creative, flexible and agile in order to support our continuous improvement goals—you’ll get to see your innovative ideas implemented quickly. Being part of a quarry, cement plant, or ready-mix plant operation is an enriching experience.
If you love challenges and want a fast-paced job, this might be a good opportunity for you.
Our mission is to enable people to contribute to our business objectives, and achieve their personal and career goals. It’s our job to make sure that we have talented people across the organisation that can execute our business strategy and envision CEMEX’s future. We achieve this goal by developing our people, placing the best talent in the right role at the right time, and establishing robust incentive structures. In addition, we seek to ensure a safe, positive, fair and ethical work environment that promotes a high-performance culture while enabling individuals to perform at their best.
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It is critical for us to attract, identify, select, develop, and retain the best talent. Furthermore, we strive to continuously enhance our work environment, and expect our leaders to engage with their teams in an effective way that supports business growth. We ensure that the company has the right talent—in quantity and quality—to fill critical positions, and we develop the organisational capabilities that support CEMEX’s strategy to constantly reinvent, and evolve our business
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Human Resources offers you a great opportunity to help build the organisational capabilities that will lead to CEMEX’s success. Caring about people, both personally and professionally, is critical to our work. Team members must be open to new ideas, and skilled at listening, building alliances, exercising influence, and empathising with others. In addition to consulting and organisational development experience, team members must also have the desire to influence our leadership capabilities, the ability to work in changing situations, to deal effectively with change management, and measure impact.
In CEMEX, we develop long-term relationships with our suppliers built on trust and our core values: collaboration, integrity and leadership. The mission of the Procurement Department is to build on these relationships while acquiring the goods and services the company needs to operate globally, leveraging our team expertise at local and regional levels to perform these activities in a timely and effective manner. At a corporate level, the department runs global negotiations and orchestrates operating standards.
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CEMEX’s Procurement Department strives to build strong alliances with vendors, who value our guiding principles and can provide the best solution for our company in the short and long term. We continuously innovate our way of acquiring goods and services to maximise efficiency and overall business sustainability. We are constantly encouraged to find alternative solutions for our internal customers to meet their needs in the most efficient way.
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We welcome creative individuals who enjoy the art of negotiation, and take pleasure in finding alternative solutions to a problem. To be successful in this team, knowledge on negotiation is needed, as well as financial and accounting skills, but most importantly, we value people skills such as team work and leadership, as well as an unquestionable integrity to perform in this department.
This area has a significant impact on how CEMEX conducts its business. Our mission is to provide the best possible legal advice on a wide array of transactions, and identify legal risks and trends that may impact the company. We use our perspective and experience to support company priorities by providing a solutions-oriented approach to legal issues, proactively anticipating issues, and identifying opportunities for all the areas.
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We are constantly challenged by the rapidly changing regulatory, social and economic landscapes. We need to keep ourselves abreast of developments on many fronts, effectively communicate them to our internal clients, and propose sensible solutions. We achieve our goals through an international and multidisciplinary team of attorneys, who understand all aspects of CEMEX’s business, and contribute to its sustainable growth. We must be effective communicators, and have strong teamwork skills to perform well in this area.
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Our team is composed of lawyers who either have or develop specialised knowledge regarding the areas they serve, such as finance, international business transactions, corporate law, compliance, environmental regulations and litigation. This area provides a great development opportunity for professionals who have a high tolerance for uncertainty, uncompromising integrity, intellectual curiosity, robust analytical skills and strong personal drive. At CEMEX you will have the opportunity to learn about the many legal issues that arise when doing business in a large, publicly traded multinational corporation, particularly one with unique origins and a history of growth and innovation.
The Logistics team manages both the transportation of raw materials to cement and concrete plants and, the delivery of aggregates, cement and ready-mix concrete to CEMEX customers and partners. Our mission is to deliver product to our customers on time while employing the most rigorous safety standards to ensure the safety of our employees and the community.
Challenge
This is a challenging and fun area to work in—it’s like solving a complex puzzle. Our goal is to minimise the cost and time of material and product transportation in the face of different locations, geographies, production rates, inventory levels, maintenance times and even weather. As the intermediary between the commercial area and other areas within the organisation, we are always managing multiple variables in our quest to meet our commitments to our customers. To do so we must collaborate closely with these other areas. Because we continually seek safer and more efficient ways to transport materials, innovation is strongly encouraged.
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Our team determines the best strategy for and means of delivering raw materials and products on time, and then sets the necessary itineraries and routes. Therefore, we need people with great planning and project- and time-management skills. Team members must also be fast learners and decision-makers and have good interpersonal skills in order to coordinate across CEMEX areas to implement logistics plans. In this area you can make great use of your creativity and desire for continuous improvement.
In Strategic Planning, we directly impact the future direction of the company by helping to define CEMEX’s strategic direction and main priorities. Our mission is to maximise CEMEX’s profitable growth, to do so we propose a vision of the company’s future, anticipate macro- and microeconomic trends, prioritise the businesses and geographies to focus on, and allocate the company’s investment dollars. We also provide senior management with the necessary analyses and recommendations for effective decision-making through budgeting, investment (capital expenditure) evaluation and approval, and economic analyses of our markets, as well as strategic planning.
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Our challenge is to harness the company’s creativity in order to continue growing profitability despite increased competition, industry consolidation and changes in the business cycles of different regions and countries. We do this is by, for example, serving as a liaison between senior management, staff areas and operations. We collaborate, and engage with all areas of the business, as well as external stakeholders, to gather the best, most complete information for efficient decision-making. We drive organisational change, and execute the initiatives that make us more competitive, and prepare us to take advantage of opportunities.
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Our team members have varied educational and cultural backgrounds, combining knowledge from business development, financial planning, information management and strategic consulting, among other specialties. To succeed in this area you need strong analytical, communication, creativity and collaboration skills. This fast-paced work provides different challenges every day and an enriching career opportunity.
As a global company, we understand, and embrace our responsibility to address some of society’s largest and most complex challenges, such as climate change and the need to provide universal access to housing and infrastructure. Our area mission is to promote initiatives that help our company provide building solutions that reduce our ecological footprint and increase stakeholder value.
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We currently have several initiatives to help CEMEX become a sustainability leader. We are enhancing our strategies for managing carbon, biodiversity and other environmental challenges; engaging with stakeholders; enhancing workplace health and safety; strengthening local community infrastructure and economies; and promoting dialogue and collaboration with our key stakeholders.
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We welcome people who want to be part of a dynamic, results-oriented team that has challenging goals. We value trust, respect, a strong work-ethic, networking skills and results that create a lasting impact. Sustainability professionals can stay within the function and deepen their experience and knowledge in this exciting new field. Or they can transfer to another team, such as Strategic Planning, Marketing, Procurement, Operations or Human Resources, and use their understanding of sustainability to improve the performance of these other areas of the company.
Our Corporate Communications and Public Affairs team is responsible for building, and preserving CEMEX’s positive reputation. We research, develop, articulate, and align our company’s messages, and then communicate them to internal and external stakeholders in a way that achieves the best possible impact. We also address any negative messages that circulate about our company. Our ultimate purpose is to help CEMEX be perceived in each of our operations around the world as what it truly is: the employer of choice, the neighbour of choice and the partner of choice.
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A key challenge for our area is to continually define, and revise CEMEX’s positions on key worldwide issues. We then communicate, and explain these positions to our executives so that they can make the most out of their ongoing conversations with various internal and external audiences, from employees and customers to governments and NGOs. We work every day to help our stakeholders recognise all the positive contributions that CEMEX makes to the world. We also have a robust internal approach that fosters collaboration and coordination between all the functional areas of the business.
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We welcome people from all educational and cultural backgrounds who excel at team-work and collaboration. We also find that people with strong analytical, social and writing skills thrive in our group. If you are looking to be part of a team that every day works to overcome new challenges, then you will find the Corporate Communications and Public Affairs area an interesting career option.
The mission of the Product Development & Construction Trends group is to identify opportunities, threats and challenges in the construction industry, and to develop innovative and competitive construction products and solutions that fulfil our operations’ and our markets’ needs. We lead, and coordinate research and development (R&D) activities through CEMEX’s laboratories. We articulate networks, and provide platforms to maximise the use of our facilities and resources—fostering agile technology transfer.
Challenge
We work on such different areas as binder technology, concrete, aggregates and admixtures. And adopt an interdisciplinary approach to take advantage of the company’s strong vertical integration in the construction materials value chain. We foresee opportunities, threats and challenges in the industry, and at the same time strive to find creative solutions that lower the CO2 footprint, improve the service life of structures, increase the energy efficiency of buildings, use recycled materials, and foster safe and healthy practices. Additionally, we must also show our operations how to use sustainable practices in the industry when building with cement-based materials. Ultimately, the group is responsible for coordinating the development and deployment of new construction products and solutions. This is achieved through CEMEX’s technological agenda, which will guide our company’s efforts to create value in the building materials industry.
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The group promotes, and adopts a multidisciplinary approach to R&D. We incorporate a proper mix of talent from different disciplines, complemented by people with important operations experience. In our state-of-the art Central R&D laboratory and our Global Center for Technology and Innovation in Switzerland, passionate, competitive and highly motivated employees—including research scientists (chemists, physicists, geologists, materials scientists), engineers, architects, business researchers and industrialisation experts—work side-by-side to generate novel, creative ideas which we can rapidly bring to market. Teamwork, the ability to communicate and flexibility are key elements for successful innovation. Group members are encouraged to proactively propose ideas and solutions, and to assume responsibility. Team members must be able to integrate different disciplines in elaborating solutions, and to execute them with agility on a global scale.
The mission of the Technology team is to guarantee that CEMEX comprehends, and utilises world-class technology to ensure the competitive leadership of our production facilities. We build market and competitive technology intelligence for the development, evaluation, and integration of new production technologies and processes into our company.
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Our goal is to ensure that we remain at the forefront of knowledge on industrial processing. This will allow us to identify relevant and successful new developments, at an early stage, in our technology market and other related industries, so these innovations can be promptly adopted by our operations to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of our plants. We must have a clear understanding of technology trends and other relevant megatrends in the world, to adopt or develop the production technology required for CEMEX to remain one of the leading companies in our business.
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In this area, we look for technologically savvy people, who are eager to look for new ways of doing old things. We look for people with a passion for materials science, thermodynamics, chemistry and other process-related disciplines, who will make technology the center of their work and self-achievement, while maintaining a deep business orientation. It is fundamental that our people be skillful team-workers—with important communication capabilities—able to lead, and drive internal and external networks of expertise in pursuit of technological challenges.
Our mission is to optimise the use of our resources, and reduce our cost of capital through a strong relationship with the global financial community. We also ensure that all local financial initiatives are in accord with our global financial business plan. To ensure that company cash is efficiently managed, we provide the infrastructure for collections and disbursements, forecast operating and financial performance based on macro- and microeconomic analyses, oversee the operating lease portfolio, identify and implement financial solutions that improve working capital, negotiate terms and conditions with financial institutions, and build alliances with internal and external stakeholders.
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A current and future challenge is to find efficient ways to maintain a low cost of capital during global and regional economic turmoil. In addition, it is critical that we find innovative structures and ways to further reduce our working capital investments.
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To succeed in Finance and Treasury, individuals need strong analytical, financial, negotiation and people skills. As a team, our core capabilities include facility in adjusting to local financial environments and challenges, continuously and proactively rethinking how we do things, and evaluating all the new ideas we generate. If you enjoy challenges, consider yourself a problem-solver, and love to keep current on global developments, this can be a great career opportunity for you.
Our mission in the Commercial area is to position CEMEX as customers’ partner of choice for all types of building projects. We build and nurture relationships with customers, and provide them advice to ensure that the product or service they purchase is effective and optimal for both their short- and long-term needs.
Challenge
As we are the team directly responsible for cash-flow generation today and in the future, our work has a direct impact on business results. Our biggest challenge is to maintain healthy customer relationships that lead to loyalty. We often undertake the sometimes challenging work of balancing customers’ needs with CEMEX’s need to optimize its business operations. We must understand the unique needs of each of our clients—no two are the same—in order to provide them the right solution; often we must adjust our suggestions to their changing conditions and a variety of scenarios. Our day-to-day activities include constantly monitoring performance indicators, an exciting and challenging part of the job.
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The commercial team has a mix of skills that range from strong interpersonal communications and good administrative abilities to a detailed technical understanding of our products and their uses. Working in this area requires you to be agile and savvy in order to support current and potential customers and strengthens your negotiation, conflict-management, environmental-analysis, consulting, problem-solving and commercial skills.
Our mission is to support CEMEX’s Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) performance and culture. As a major player in the global building materials industry, we face a broad array of challenges. The production, storage, transportation, and distribution of our products involve hazards and risks that, if not controlled, can cause harm to people and damage to the environment. For this reason, our top priorities are to keep our people healthy and safe, and reduce the environmental impacts of our operations. We strive to have zero EHS incidents; we act thoroughly to achieve it.
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Our work requires a good understanding of EHS risks and practices. To assure the safe and efficient use of CEMEX’s assets, we periodically monitor, and audit operations. We visit operational sites, analyse company EHS performance data, and review the root causes of incidents and near misses. We use this information to develop plans, management systems, training programs and initiatives that can be applied globally to eliminate or decrease EHS risks.
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In this area we welcome anyone with a passion for environmental, health, or safety performance and the ability to convey that passion to a wide and diverse audience across different organisational levels. It is important for us to have team members with a strong work ethic, who are creative and adapt easily to change, and who have good leadership and networking skills. Depending on the role, people interested in this area should be experienced and qualified in health and safety, science, engineering, environmental science, or occupational hygiene. EHS professionals at CEMEX may choose to stay within the function and deepen their expertise, or they can transfer their skills to other areas such as Human Resources, Risk Management, Technology Projects, Operations, and Communications.
Our mission is to support the CEMEX strategy by differentiating our products and services from our competitors’, defining our value-added offerings, and identifying the mechanisms to fulfil our promises in each of our markets. To make this possible, we collaborate together with other areas to develop innovative products that meet our customers’ needs while minimising environmental impact, and we design the customer support and services that strengthen the overall experience and build customer loyalty.
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We must keep abreast of our customers’ evolving needs, new building trends, and sustainability innovations, and use this information to collaborate with Research and Development to devise solutions that will enable us to maintain our leadership position. In order to do so, we must stay abreast of our customers’ evolving needs, new building trends and sustainability innovations. To ensure that the CEMEX customer experience is consistent throughout the business, we develop tools and training for our sales force team. We also design customer loyalty programs that help us build enduring relationships with our customers.
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As collaboration with different functional areas and corporate offices is pivotal to our work, great communication and teamwork skills are essential to a marketing team member’s success. A good understanding of branding, marketing principles and product development, as well as strong project-management abilities, are also beneficial. This area offers a great opportunity to explore breakthrough solutions that make our world better.