Vice President & General Manager, Ready-Mix Operations

Description

• Develops annual budget, monitors performance, and adjusts strategy to ensure maximum returns are being realized, and allocates operating budget. Maximizes profit margin through strategic planning. Final P&L, capital allocation, and performance responsibility.
• Serves as a role model in the areas of leadership, teamwork, customer focus, continuous improvement, safety & health, wellness and environmental stewardship to ensure alignment with the company’s vision and critical success factors. Develops relationships with other key leaders and stakeholders within industry, such as agencies, associations, major suppliers and contractors.
• Provides strategic direction for growth, initiatives, and expansion. Guides the development of new markets and channels to support growth. Responsible for five-year strategic planning. Develop supply side logistics plan to support operations.
• Overall responsibility for coordinating functions and directing operations and commercial strategy between departments at plants and for reviewing activity reports and financial statements to determine progress and status in attaining production and profitability objectives.
• Displays expertise in all areas of ready mix and cement manufacturing.
• Ensures effective succession planning and career development. Provides mentoring to direct reports.
• Ensures that Prairie establishes and achieves appropriate financial, growth and safety targets of performance. Final and direct responsibility for safety results.
• Ensures collaborative business planning within Prairie’s NIL and CIL regions and VCNA. Ensures standardization of VCNA corporate goals and initiatives within Prairie’s NIL and CIL regions.

Requirements

• Ability to visualize, articulate, and solve both complex problems and concepts and make decisions that are sensible and based on available information. Ability to apply logical thinking to gathering and analyzing information, designing and testing solutions to problems, and formulating plans.
• Ability to make effective and persuasive speeches and presentations on controversial or complex topics to top management, public groups, and/or boards of directors.
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office products, particularly Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
• Ability to write speeches and articles using original or innovative techniques or style.
• Ten to fifteen years related operations and sales experience.
• RRSP and DC (CAN) and 401K (U.S.)
• Ability to apply advanced mathematical concepts such as exponents, logarithms, quadratic equations, and permutations.
• Ability to respond effectively to the most sensitive inquiries or complaints.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret the most complex documents.
• Ability to apply mathematical operations to such tasks as frequency distribution, determination of test reliability and validity, analysis of variance, correlation techniques, sampling theory, and factor analysis.
• Ability to manage, direct and engage employees in daily and long-term plans of the business’ needs.
• Bachelor’s Degree in related field.

Benefits

• Educational scholarship program for dependents of regular salaried employees.
• Tuition reimbursement/assistance
• Paid Maternity Leave Top Up
• Medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance
• Competitive wages, vacation and holiday time
• Opportunities to collaborate with teams around the globe and growth opportunities in different areas
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP): confidential support for you and your family (CAN)
• Access to Employees Resource Groups (ERGs), including SheBuilds, which fosters mentorship, leadership development and community support for women at VCNA
• Training, professional development
• Fertility drug coverage

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance