Jobs at Imerys

Manages regional third-party tolling activities, including production allocation, supply planning, quality, EHS compliance, materials flow, subcontracting orders, inventory, invoicing, and profitability reviews. Builds toller partnerships, coordinates internal stakeholders, supports audits and complaint resolution, monitors performance, implements SAP-based processes, and drives continuous improvement. The role requires regular visits to tolling partners and up to 40% travel.

Oversee Group overhead cost controlling, monthly reporting, budgeting, forecasting, KPI tracking, and financial analysis. Partner with accounting, controlling, corporate function, and executive teams to ensure data consistency and identify financial risks and opportunities. Develop dashboards, reporting routines, planning tools, and recommendations that support strategic and operational decisions. Contribute to process improvements and the implementation of accounting and reporting procedures.

Lead the Human Resources function in South Africa, managing four HR managers and supporting organizational capability, employee relations, compliance, leadership development, and workforce strategy. Build constructive relationships with trade unions and employee representatives, strengthen management capabilities, maintain HR governance, and navigate a matrixed international environment. The role combines strategic HR leadership with hands-on operational support in a unionized, transformation-oriented organization.

Manages capital and plant improvement projects from scoping and design through procurement, construction, commissioning, and cost control. Develops budgets, project plans, equipment standards, and reliability initiatives while ensuring compliance with building codes, environmental regulations, safety, quality, and operational requirements. Partners with engineering, operations, production, and maintenance teams to improve processes, reduce costs, troubleshoot equipment failures, and optimize plant performance.

Manages sales strategy, budgets, customer and prospect portfolios for Graphite & Carbon products in India. Develops new customers and applications, delivers technical presentations, manages key accounts, agents, and distributors, supports negotiations and marketing activities, and coordinates customer relationships with internal technical and production teams. Prepares sales reports, oversees receivables, drives market and commercial growth, and contributes to regional strategy. The role requires substantial travel and operates within an international matrix organization.

Performs plant-level cost accounting, standard costing, inventory valuation, month-end close, budgeting, forecasting, internal controls, audit coordination, and financial reporting. Analyzes production and operational costs, oversees stock reconciliation and capital expenditure review, supports mining-related accounting, and advises plant and controlling leadership. The role requires collaboration with local operations and participation in finance transformation initiatives involving SAP.

Supports HR operations across the employee lifecycle, including time and attendance, onboarding, offboarding, recruitment coordination, employer branding, employee communications, and HR analytics. Provides guidance to employees and managers, uses HRIS data to generate workforce reports, supports HR digitalization, and contributes to employee engagement and process improvement initiatives in an international environment.

The Plant Controller manages standard costing, operational accounting, inventory and fixed assets, internal controls, ledger oversight, and audit follow-up. The role also prepares site budgets and forecasts, delivers monthly plant performance reporting, analyzes ERP data, and supports industrial controlling and site management. It requires strong accounting knowledge, SAP S/4HANA proficiency, analytical ability, business partnering, communication skills, and at least five years of industrial cost accounting or plant controlling experience.

Performs general ledger intercompany accounting across European entities, including journal entries, invoice issuance and posting, reconciliations, netting, AP/AR adjustments, discrepancy resolution, audit support, and compliance activities. The role collaborates with international finance teams, supports month-end close deadlines, and contributes to process improvement within a shared service center.

Drive profitable agriculture-market sales growth across EMEA, managing approximately 100 customers and €10 million in turnover. Responsibilities include strategic account planning, commercial negotiations, customer relationship management, market intelligence, complaint resolution, cash collection, forecasting, and new business development. The role requires collaboration with Marketing, Technical Support, S&OP, Finance, and Legal teams, with travel of up to 50% across Europe.

Leads process optimization, new product development, plant troubleshooting, energy-efficiency initiatives, debottlenecking, capacity expansion, and CAPEX projects at the Ranong plant. Maintains mass balances, process flows, and P&IDs; coordinates engineering vendors and subject-matter experts; ensures EHS and quality compliance; supports continuous improvement, cost savings, 5S, dust management, and energy reporting.

Coordinates the S&OP demand planning cycle across Asia-Pacific assets and trading operations. Develops demand forecasts using orders, inventory, historical purchasing, and business intelligence; translates external demand into intercompany requirements; analyzes supply-demand risks; maintains KPIs; coordinates stakeholders across supply chain, operations, purchasing, finance, and customer service; and drives continuous process improvement.

Coordinates business development operations and cross-functional projects across global industrial applications. Standardizes KPI tracking, reporting, workflows, product management, and marketing coordination. Tracks strategy implementation, supports corporate alignment, and facilitates incubation and scaling of new business platforms. Leads matrix-based task forces, monitors milestones, CAPEX, and ramp-up schedules, and addresses operational bottlenecks without direct authority.

Drive profitable sales growth across Spain and Portugal’s ceramics market, managing approximately 50 strategic customers and €25 million in annual turnover. Responsibilities include account planning, commercial negotiations, customer visits, market intelligence, complaint resolution, cash collection, new business development, cross-selling, forecasting, and CRM reporting. The role requires close collaboration with Marketing, Technical Support, Finance, Legal, and S&OP teams, with travel of up to 60% across Spain and Portugal.

Drive profitable filtration sales growth across Africa and the Nordics, managing approximately 140 customers and €14 million in annual turnover. Responsibilities include strategic account planning, commercial negotiations, customer satisfaction, market intelligence, new business development, cash collection, forecasting, and collaboration with marketing, technical, legal, finance, and operations teams. The role requires frequent customer engagement and up to 50% travel across Africa and Northern Europe.

Leads internal and external communications for Imerys Graphite & Carbon. Develops communication strategies, manages corporate reputation, press and crisis communications, leadership messaging, employee information cascades, customer campaigns, events, websites, and marketing materials. Advises senior leaders and business departments, coordinates global messaging, and manages communication resources, projects, and stakeholders.

Manages demand forecasting and monthly S&OP processes across manufacturing sites. Analyzes forecast accuracy, customer demand, production capacity, inventory, risks, and opportunities; prepares scenarios and metrics for executive review; aligns Sales, Operations, Finance, Supply Chain, Purchasing, and Plant leadership; leads allocation planning and process improvements; and follows up on actions and short-term supply-demand issues. Requires up to 30% business travel.

Records and reconciles financial transactions, manages payments for three group companies, supports month-end and year-end close, prepares financial statements and reports, assists with VAT refunds, and provides audit documentation. The role maintains accounting data integrity, compliance, documentation, and internal controls while performing daily operations in ERP systems, preferably SAP.

Provides legal counsel to U.S. and Canadian business units, managing complex litigation, outside counsel, disputes, insurance recovery, product stewardship, health and safety compliance, procurement support, and some employment matters. The role advises business stakeholders, develops legal strategies and templates, oversees litigation budgets, supports regulatory inspections, and negotiates commercial contracts. It requires collaboration across functions and countries, strong legal analysis, and active bar admission or eligibility in Georgia.

Manage demand planning and the monthly S&OP process for an assigned industrial manufacturing scope. Analyze forecasts, order books, forecast accuracy, exceptions, inventory, production requirements, and supply-demand risks. Coordinate Sales, Operations, Finance, Purchasing, Supply Chain, and plant leadership; prepare scenarios and metrics for S&OP reviews; challenge forecasts; track actions; improve forecasting tools and processes; and drive organizational transformation. The role requires 5–10% business travel.