LEAD PROCESS IMPROVEMENT
Apply now »Date: Aug 14, 2024
Location: Houston, TX, US, 77043
Company: CEMEX
Company Overview
Founded in 1906, over the last 110+ years' CEMEX has grown into a global building materials company that provides high quality products and reliable service to customers and communities throughout the Americas, Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. Here at CEMEX we offer our employees competitive wages, career growth, excellent benefits including health, dental & vision plans, vacation or paid time off, employee assistance program and retirement plan options, along with over a century of stability to build your next career on! To learn more about our company culture and why you should join us, visit us at www.cemexusa.com/careers. For direct access to CEMEX Career Opportunities, visit us at https://jobs.cemex.com/.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Technical Skills
- Knowledge in procurement processes: policies, procedures, and rules.
- Communication skills and change management to deploy changes and follow up the strategy.
- Process mapping from the big picture and with detailed steps.
- Knowledge of the production process.
- Understands the businesses strategy.
- Understands procurement challenges in all the supply chain.
- Data analysis.
Management Skills
- Team player with effective conflict management.
- Can deal effectively with people who hold opposing views, tolerates conflicts and ambiguity.
- Initiative-taking, self-motivated, and problem solver orientation
- Adheres to a core set of values and beliefs; demonstrates high integrity and ethics; build trust
- Ability to listen and meet customer expectations and concerns.
Job Summary
Coordinate and unify procurement business processes, Identify opportunities to simplify, improve and generate new process and/or tools, and lead the change management strategy to have the best adoption for Procurements and end users.
Job Responsibilities
- Identify operation and business opportunities that need to be defined and documented for procurement processes in the region.
- Communicate business processes and integrate different support to achieve the goal of standardization.
- Work along the procurement for all business units to identify opportunities on procurement processes.
- Deep knowledge of procurement processes to be a single point of help for business operations.
- Quick project implementation with procurement teams to maximize benefits.
- Assure process deployment, alignment & changes
- Bring new technologies and tools for the procurement team
- Simplify and synthesizes complex or diverse information
- Analyze and measure the effectiveness of existing business processes to propose and develop potential new process improvements within procurement
- Builds knowledge of the organization, processes and customers
- Conduct research and analysis in developing processes that assist procurement
- Continuous creating, developing and presenting to different groups / stakeholders the results of the projects or proposals
Qualifications
- Procurement, Negotiations, Warehouse Management
- Project management
- Working in / with multifunctional teams
- 6-10 years of experience, must have a Bachelor in engineering, Administration, Supply Chain, Business
- Desire (plus) Master in business administration, other
- Must knowledge of SAP
- LEAN Six Sigma Black Belt certification or equivalent
- Advanced proficiency in MS Word, Excel, and in MS PowerPoint and presenting virtually preferred
- Cross functional team facilitation
- Strong presentation skills
- Experience using problem solving techniques and business analysis tools critical to continuous improvement processes required, such as LEAN, Shingo, Value Stream Mapping, Conflict Management, Strategic Planning, and SWOT Analysis
- Experience in organizational survey methods preferred
- Strong analytical, organizational, interpersonal, and communication (written and oral) skills
- Ability to understand, articulate, and advocate for business recommendations
Working Conditions
- Capable of working in an office environment and with working extended hours, when needed
- Job involves sitting most of the time, but also involves walking or standing for brief periods of time
Physical Requirements
- Requires walking, sitting, lifting, pushing, pulling, and climbing to a significant degree
- Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or a negligible amount of force frequently
- Job involves sitting, walking or standing.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear, in order to communicate to employees/visitors
Legal Notices
CEMEX is an EEO/AA (equal opportunity/affirmative action) institution and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital or familial status, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by under federal, state or local law in the programs or activities which it operates.
CEMEX will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with all local, state and federal laws.
CEMEX is an E-Verify participating employer.
Arizona Smoke-Free Act. CEMEX complies with the State of Arizona’s Smoke-Free Act (Arizona Revised Statutes § 36-601.01). Smoking and/or the use of tobacco or related products is prohibited in and on CEMEX property as well as any building and/or vehicle owned or leased by CEMEX.
CEMEX offers both competitive pay and benefits. Benefits applicable to this position may include, but are not limited to, medical, dental, vision, 401(k), Paid Time Off, and Holiday Pay, as well as a comprehensive wellness program to help keep employees and their families healthy and well. You can learn more about CEMEX Benefits by visiting the CEMEX USA Benefits and Well-Being page. (https://www.cemexusa.com/careers/life-at-cemex/benefits-well-being).
EEO Statement - En Español
CEMEX es una institución EEO/AA (igualdad de oportunidad/acción afirmativa) y no discrimina en base al sexo, edad, raza, color, religión, discapacidad física o mental, credo, origen nacional, estatus veterano, orientación sexual, información genética, identidad de género, o expresión de género en los programas o actividades los cuales opera.
Nearest Major Market: Houston