Job Description

Job ID: 516061

CRH's Americas Materials is the leading integrated supplier of aggregates, asphalt, ready mixed concrete and paving and construction services in North America. Our operations span North America with over 29,000 employees at close to 1,660 locations in 45 US States and 2 Canadian provinces.

Overview

The Division VP Human Resources provides strategic and operational leadership for all Human Resources functions across the division. This role partners with Division, Regional & OpCo Presidents, and leads local HR teams to strengthen culture, enhance organizational capability, and ensure consistency in people practices across all locations.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic HR Leadership : Partner with Division, Regional, and OpCo leadership to align HR strategy with business goals. Act as a trusted advisor on talent, structure, and organizational health.

Talent Management: Oversee succession planning, leadership development, and performance management. Lead initiatives and establish local partnerships to build leadership capability and drive employee engagement.

Learning & Development: Lead the Division’s Learning & Development Strategy, aligning programs with business goals and leadership capability needs. Support leadership onboarding, coaching, and mentoring to strengthen organizational capacity.

Talent Acquisition: Lead exempt recruiting through a centralized recruiting team. Oversee local HR to ensure efficient and equitable hiring practices.

Total Rewards : Oversee compensation & benefits strategy and administration ensuring competitive programs and strong employee communication.

Employee & Labor Relations : Provide guidance, support, and coordination for complex employee and labor relations matters. Build capability in local HR teams to ensure fair, consistent, and legally compliant practices while fostering positive relationships with employees and labor representatives.

Performance Management: Coach leaders on goal setting, feedback, performance development practices, and intentional leadership to drive accountability and results.

Communications: Provide leadership to the Division Communications team, ensuring clear, consistent, and strategic messaging across all levels of the Division. Guide communication planning during major initiatives such as reorganizations, system implementations, acquisitions, and business transformations.

Mergers & Acquisitions: Serve as the HR lead/support for mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures. Coordinate with local OpCos on integration plans, ensuring alignment of compensation, benefits, policies, and culture.

HR Operations : Drive HR process improvement and data integrity in partnership with CRH, AMAT and local HR.

Collaboration & Influence: Foster collaboration across the Division. Partner with local Operations, and Safety teams to integrate people strategies and strengthen culture.

Leadership : Lead and develop a team of HR professionals including HR managers, recruiters, benefits specialists, L&D, and communications.

Reporting Structure

• This role will report directly into the Central Division President and indirectly into the SVP, HR- AMAT

Key Competencies

• Strategic influence and business partnership
• Talent development and coaching
• Cultural leadership and change management
• Analytical and data-driven decision-making
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Analytical and data-driven decision-making
• Balancing stakeholders to satisfy variable customer needs with ability and agility

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Organizational Development, Business Administration, or comparable discipline or equivalent combination of education and experience. Masters and/or SPHR/PHR/SHRM Certification desired.
• 10 or more years working in Talent Management and/or Human Resources.
• Minimum of 5 years working in a HR leadership capacity encompassing multiple locations/sites – preferably managing through direct reports as well as a matrix.
• Solid knowledge of an industrial environment and labor relations.
• Ability to think strategically, with vision and creativity, and to align HR to the business agenda, combined with a passion for results and the ability to drive performance excellence.
• Sufficient generalist experience to be immediately credible across the function and the business, i.e. full set of HR skills, with a focus on organizational design and embedding talent and performance management into businesses.
• Strong business acumen, ability to understand the HR needs for the business and implement solutions to achieve positive results for the business.
• Proven success in recruiting and talent management leadership.
• Well-honed change management experience and skills gained through working in business facing relevant transformations.
• Ability to work independently and get work done through others (when necessary) using effective delegation, scheduling, and time management practices.
• Proven project management skills, including facilitation, organizational skills, indirect management, and ability to hold parties accountable for results.
• Highly developed verbal and written communication skills
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office products including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
• Experience with SuccessFactors and Korn Ferry a plus.
• Requires travel, at times up to 30%.

What CRH Offers You

• Highly competitive base pay
• Comprehensive medical, dental and disability benefits programs
• Group retirement savings program
• Health and wellness programs
• An inclusive culture that values opportunity for growth, development, and internal promotion

About CRH

CRH has a long and proud heritage. We are a collection of hundreds of family businesses, regional companies and large enterprises that together form the CRH family. CRH operates in a decentralized, diversified structure that allows you to work in a small company environment while having the career opportunities of a large international organization.

If you’re up for a rewarding challenge, we invite you to take the first step and apply today! Once you click apply now, you will be brought to our official employment application. Please complete your online profile and it will be sent to the hiring manager. Our system allows you to view and track your status 24 hours a day. Thank you for your interest!

CRH Americas Materials Inc. is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer.

EOE/Vet/Disability

CRH is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, status as a protected veteran or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.

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