Shaping Professionals
CEMEX is cementing its future as a dominant player in the global cement industry by positioning its people as assets. Its global presence provides promising employees with unprecedented experience in various challenging environments. Nuances that evolve from cultural diversity and local market conditions ensure a well-rounded technical and professional training. If people are its assets, then CEMEX is building its assets in an impressive manner. A truly global training experience characterizes CEMEX’s approach to human resource development.

• Professionals-in-Development
  A program that aims to develop a ready pool of professionals who possess a broad understanding of the cement industry, the CEMEX business, and the CEMEX Way of doing business.
• Global Leadership Program
  Aimed at high-potential executives under strict selection guidelines, this development program includes foreign assignments, programmed job and/or country rotation and formal education and personal advice from a member of the program Management Committee.
• Performance & Potential Assessment
  This process enables the company to measure, in a uniform and objective fashion, executives’ current contribution and potential. It enables a useful frame of reference for the executive’s internal growth .
• CEMEX International Management Program
  The best business schools in the United States are the training centers for high performance executives to ensure the company’s global leadership and competitiveness. Using the Case Method, the program prepares executives for 8 intensive seeks towards perfecting their managerial skills.
• International Exchange Program
  This program assigns an executive to another Business Unit of CEMEX for 6 – 12 months wherein he/she performs a role similar to his/her role in his/her business unit. Thru this, the executive learns the management practices of the country of destination while improving his/her managerial skills. The executive also gets the opportunity to compare his/her local practices with that of his country of assignment while at the same time learning the culture.
• Due Diligence / Post Merger Integration
  A CEMEX team composed of various competencies are sent to the targeted operations for potential acquisition. Depending on the size of the target, the process can take from 1 week to 3 months or longer. Once acquired, a team from different countries is tasked with integrating CEMEX systems in the newly acquired company.

Speaking from Experience:

Paul Arcenas
Planning Manager
CEMEX International Management Program, USA
Europe-Asia- Middle East Professional Exchange Program, Spain

“CEMEX takes its base of talent, complements it with a strong process orientation, empowered by tools, and then fuses it with real life experience to bring forward creative and dynamic solutions. International programs (postings, customized courses, conferences and the like) enrich the experience component of this formula. CEMEX brings together diverse ideas and generates breakthrough results thru cross-cultural collaboration. Furthermore, these programs engage the professional by drawing on his existing expertise and fermenting it with new ways of thinking, communicating and doing.”

Roman Azanza
Regional Treasurer, Asia
Executive Development Program, Mexico, Spain, USA
CEMEX International Management Program, USA

“At CEMEX, we realize that both global and local market places are constantly evolving. Cognizant of this reality, the Company has focused on the development of its key resource – its people – as a top priority. Personally, my global on-the-job training experiences in Mexico, the United States and Spain coupled with my recently completed stints at several of the world’s top executive education programs have not only broadened my strategic and managerial abilities but have also given me the chance to see how genuinely committed CEMEX is to creating the best –of- its class global company.”

Noel Angeles
Technical Director
MBA Course Northwestern University-Kellog School of Management and Hongkong University of Science and Technology Business School

“The MBA Course that I took provided me with enriching experience both professionally and personally. The diversity and top-end nature of the program as only these two leading schools could give, plus the chance to be with top-notch professors and experienced executives, stimulated me personally. It gave me a professional appreciation of what we in CEMEX are doing and a realization that we do excel in a lot of business initiatives. This exposure equipped me with what is needed for a person in my position to confidently face up with challenges that a highly competitive business world offers.”

Leo Andrei Cruz
Technical Advisor
Due Diligence Team, Malaysia
Professionals-in-Development Top 20% Program, Mexico

“The personal growth of this experience has taught adaptability, patience, family closeness and the development of networks, working relationships, and friendships that support our present endeavors.”

Ma. Soledad Gaston
Business Process Consultant
Decisión Support Systems Team, Spain
ARIS/SAI Training, Mexico
Executive In International Assignment, Mexico
CEMEXWay Project, USA
Pilot Test of Recognition Program, Florida, USA

“These exposures have pushed me to do my best, to be stronger, to discover my competencies that I was not aware of and to develop new skills in order to carry out the job.”

Nicandro Fucoy,
Vice-President , Commercial
Executive Development Program, Mexico, Spain
CEMEX International Management Program, USA
Global Leadership Program, Mexico

"I saw CEMEX’s great concern for people development at the onset of my career . A development plan was ready for me upon my entry to the organization in 1999. This plan exposed me to bigger operations in Mexico. I am one of those who can attest to the fact that people development is a continuing commitment in CEMEX. Aside from my initial development program, I have had several others, the most recent of which was the CEMEX International Management Program, conducted for CEMEX by no less than the leading business schools in the U. S. and the Global Leadership Program. All these honed my leadership and management skills thus enabling me to confront the challenges that our business unit and the cement industry offer."

Romeo Siquijor
IT Services Manager
Post-Merger Integration, Thailand
Due Diligence, Thailand
Global PC Computing WorkGroup, Mexico
Global Information Security Program, Mexico
Global Network Operating System WorkGroup, Mexico, Spain

“Being involved in several international projects gave me a very good opportunity to broaden skills, strengthen my internal network within the CEMEX Information Technology chain, and learn both the macro and micro perspective of the business operations. Furthermore, I learned that being in a foreign country with different culture, attitude and work tempo, one must learn how to be flexible without compromising business objectives. More than anything else, the best thing I've gained are the friends I gained along the way….. Sometimes, being far from our own family becomes easy when you have your other family with you ---- the CEMEX family!”