General Manager, GLE

Holcim Ltd.; Buffalo (NY); On-site; USD 181,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match / Roth option

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Medical, Dental, Disability and Life

Paid time off & holidays

Educational Assistance Program

Dress for your day

Job summary

Amrize North America Inc. seeks a General Manager to drive strategy across Ready Mix, Aggregates and Asphalt, with accountability for safety, production, distribution, quality, and commercial teams.

You will lead health, safety and environment programs while guiding customer-focused product and service offerings to exceed expectations. You will also oversee financial performance, capital expenditure planning and sustainability initiatives, building strong teams and ensuring optimal operations

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in construction materials, including health and safety, production, distribution, quality and commercial.
• Bachelor's degree in Operations Management, Business, Sales, Marketing, Civil Engineering, Health and Safety or related discipline.
• Proficiency with SAP, QlikView; strong MS Office; familiarity with Google Meet/Zoom.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategy development and execution across Ready Mix, Aggregates and Asphalt.
• Advance safety culture and health/environment compliance.
• Drive customer centricity by aligning offerings to customer needs.
• Manage profit and loss performance and budgeting processes.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic planning

Financial acumen

People skills

Operations management

Customer focus

Union experience

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

SAP

QlikView

Google Meets/Zoom

Microsoft Office

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Estimated Wage Range $181,000 - $230,000/Annually

COMPANY OVERVIEW

Amrize is building North America. From bridges and railways to data centers, schools, offices and homes, our solutions are inside the buildings and infrastructure that connect people and advance how we live. And we invite you to come and build with us.

As the partner of choice for professional builders, we offer advanced branded solutions from foundation to rooftop. Wherever our customers are, whatever their job, we’re ready to deliver. Our 19,000 colleagues work across 1,000 sites supported by an unparalleled distribution network. Infrastructure, commercial and residential, new build, repair and refurbishment: We’re in every construction market.

Amrize listed on the New York Stock Exchange and the SIX Swiss Exchange on June 23, 2025, following our spinoff as an independent company. Join us and build your ambition.

Join Amrize as a General Manager, GLEand help construct what's next. If you're ready to put your skills to work on projects that matter — and build a career with a company that’s building North America — we want to hear from you!

ABOUT THE ROLE

Drives all aspects of strategy development and execution by overseeing and managing the Ready Mix, Aggregates and Asphalt business, including the functional areas of health and safety, operations (production, distribution and quality), sales and marketing, finance, sustainability and land & environment.

The GM’s specific areas of focus will include: OSHA/MSHA leadership resulting in an advancement of safety culture; continuous improvement efforts to achieve operational and commercial excellence; advancement of customer centricity by determining customer needs and developing product and service offerings (at all customer touchpoints) resulting in exceeding customer expectations; financial performance including meeting or exceeding profit & loss targets, maintaining working capital and determining and maintaining capital expenditures; advancing all elements of sustainability. The GM will also: lead by example, demonstrating behavior consistent with the company’s values; supervise, coach and mentor subordinates, ensure employee productivity and operational efficiency; maintain a positive working environment resulting in high retention and employee satisfaction; monitor various activities and satisfy related reporting requirements in accordance to the Company’s policies.

WHAT YOU'LL ACCOMPLISH

• Delivers strategic leadership and management practices to the organization in support of the company’sbusiness strategy.
• Takes the lead role in communicating and demonstrating company vision, values, and strategies to managers, business partners and the community.
• Communicates and promotes health and safety, environmental, and compliance requirements in alignment with company standards. Leads by example. Creates and enforces a culture of health, safety and environmental stewardship. Responsible for maintaining safe working environments and ensuring compliance with local, state and federal safety regulations; coordinate closely with the safety team.
• Responsible for ensuring positive relations with all stakeholders: employees, customers, suppliers, community, government interest groups, etc. Assures adherence to applicable legislation and regulations, including permit and environmental conditions, in coordination with local Environmental Manager.
• Ensures quality through evaluation of the production process, material inputs and outputs. Partners with support functions to ensure that the highest quality product is being delivered.
• Partners with Regional Management and support functions on the development of overall objectives andlong-range goals/strategies for the region. Translates and cascades objectives to measurable goals todirect reports, monitors actions, and is ultimately accountable for the successful execution of all approvedstrategies.
• Responds to and maintains positive employer-employee relationships that contribute to satisfactoryproductivity, motivation and morale. Prevents and resolves problems involving individuals when theyarise. Motivates coaches and mentors’ employees to build effective teams.
• Develops staffing plans. Responsible for personnel management, including recruitment, supervision, disciplinary actions, performance appraisals and terminations. Prioritizes staff workloads in order to meet product needs/objectives in all areas. Develops and trains staff to ensure high skill levels. Partners withHuman Resources on employee development and succession planning initiatives,
• Understands the needs of the customers and positions the company to profitably meet the mutual needs of the customer and the company. Provides excellent customer service to stakeholder groups by addressing issues, questions or concerns in a timely manner. Builds long-lasting relationships with customers.
• Assesses market opportunities and develops annual business plans in terms of volume and expensebudgets. Responsible for establishing sales goals. Develops appropriate market expectations and forsales and marketing functions. Ensures the execution of sales strategies to develop new opportunities,increase market share and promote profitable sales growth.
• Supports the Region in achieving overall P&L targets by identifying opportunities for improvement as wellas collaborating with other regional product lines to leverage resources, etc. Responsible for theattainment of revenue and profit goals for the division.
• Ensures adherence to budget and optimizes processes to achieve greater operational effectiveness.Oversees and directs preparation of operating budgets. Conducts operations reviews to assess all costdrivers that impact financials. Monitors and controls operational volumes, capacity, material use,inventory data, etc. Reviews financial statements, operations and cost reports, and other keyperformance indicators to measure productivity and goal achievement and to determine areas needingcost reduction and program improvement. Manages capital expenditures.
• Ensures a culture built with honesty, integrity and in compliance with the company requirements.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Demonstrate a commitment to communicating, improving and adhering to health, safety andenvironmental policies in all work environments and areas. Promote a culture of safety and exhibit thesebehaviors.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

Education: Bachelor's degree or years of equivalent experience
Additional Education Preferred: Master's degree
Field of Study Preferred:Operations Management, Business, Sales, Marketing, Civil Engineering, Health and Safety or other relateddisciplines.
Required Work Experience:Minimum of 10 years of experience in the construction materials sector, including, but not limited to,experience in the health and safety, production, distribution, quality, and commercial departments.
Required Technical Skills: Intermediate computer skills using Microsoft Office Products (Excel, PowerPoint, Word). SAP, QlikView, and Google Meets/Zoom experience preferred.

Travel Requirements: Frequent travel to company and customer sites and within the US for corporate projects. Travel overseasmight sometimes be required.

Additional Requirements

• Proven record of enhancements and success in health, safety, and environment
• Demonstrated ability to successfully and effectively organize, manage and lead an organization of diversedisciplines.
• Creativity in approaches used to develop and direct short- and long-range planning and developmentprograms.
• High-level strategic vision.
• Strongly driven by results
• Excellent people skills and strong potential for strong leadership development.
• Strong time management skills and ability to prioritize tasks
• Experience with unions; managing collective bargaining agreements, involvement in union negotiations,involvement in other related union matters.
• Strong customer-centric focus
• Ability to build effective relationships with direct reports, customers, suppliers, and all business stakeholders.
• Ability to maintain composure and a high level of professionalism in all circumstances, even when under pressure.
• Strong knowledge and understanding related to company products, processes, and equipment.
• Strong understanding of financials and performance metrics, allowing for interpretation of monthly results, maintaining accurate forecasts, developing annual budgets and driving continuous improvement efforts.
• Able to handle multiple responsibilities at one time and able to deal effectively with people using a facilitativeapproach.
• Demonstrated ability to delegate and obtain results through others.
• Experience with land transactions and environmental compliance
• Successful candidates must adhere to all safety protocols and proper use of Amrize approved Personal Protection Equipment ("PPE"), including but not limited to respirators. Employees that are required to wear respirators must be clean shaven where the respirator seal meets the face in order to pass the qualitative and quantitative fit test.

WHAT WE OFFER

• Retirement Savings: Choose from 401(k) pre-tax and/or Roth after-tax savings
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Medical, Dental, Disability and Life Insurance
• Holistic Health & Well-being programs
• Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) & Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) for health and dependent care
• Vision and other Voluntary benefits and discounts
• Paid time off & paid holidays
• Paid Parental Leave (maternity & paternity)
• Educational Assistance Program
• Dress for your day

BUILDING INCLUSIVE WORKSPACES

At Amrize, there is endless opportunity for you to play your part. Whether you’re in a technical, managerial, or frontline role, you can shape a career that works for you. We're seeking builders, creative thinkers and innovators. Come put your expertise to work while developing the knowledge and skills to drive your career forward. With us you’ll have the chance to build your ambition!

Amrize North America Inc. takes pride in our hiring processes and our commitment that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, ethnicity, religion, creed, national origin, ancestry, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, parental status, genetic information, citizenship, physical or mental disability, past, current, or prospective service in the uniformed services, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law. Amrize North America Inc, and its respective subsidiaries are Equal Opportunity Employers, deciding all employment on the basis of qualification, merit and business need. Amrize Canada Inc. is committed to the principles of employment equity and encourages the applications from women, visible minorities, and persons with disabilities.Amrize North America Inc. participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the United States.

In compliance with the ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA), if you have a disability and would like to request accommodation in order to apply for a position with us, please email [e-mail]. This email address should only be used for accommodations and not general inquiries or resume submittals. In Ontario, our organization/business is committed to fulfilling our requirements under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act. Under the Act, accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

While we sincerely appreciate all applications, only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.