This is a rare opportunity for a well-rounded senior operations leader to shape the future of a premier high-end residential landscaping firm. The VP/GM will have full operational and financial responsibility and will guide a highly talented, low-turnover team through sustainable growth. With world-class designers, masons, and crews, the company is poised for scale and requires disciplined leadership, operational excellence, and structured growth planning to ensure quality remains uncompromised as volume increases.
This opportunity combines your entrepreneurial spirit with the resources and stability of a seasoned operation that offers a dynamic environment where innovative thinking, operational excellence, leadership, financial acumen, and a commitment to quality are celebrated and rewarded.
Key Responsibilities
Intentional Leadership
- Lead with intentional, strategic, and tactical leadership that inspires an ownership mentality that achieves results with accountability, high-performance, and KPIs.
- Encourage each person to maximize their contributions and to celebrate results.
- Deliver clear and impactful communications through various mediums with consistency, reinforcing strategic and tactical goals and progress.
- Lead by example with work ethic, process discipline, ethics, integrity, and respect.
Financial Acumen – Revenue Growth
- Deliver consistent annual revenue growth, cash flow, and profitability.
- Manage the P&L to meet the established revenue, profit, and cash flow goals.
- Drive operations with efficiency to ensure profitability.
- Drive the sales cycle to ensure revenue from market development, lead generation, pricing/estimate/proposal excellence.
- Manage risk to ensure enduring success with early identification and countermeasures.
Project Management & Delivery Excellence
- Oversee daily operational activities, providing proactive tactical direction to the team.
- Guide the team to operational excellence through process focus, efficiency, collaboration, and empowerment.
- Establish a culture and collective team mindset of results orientation and continuous improvement.
Talent Management
- Prioritize attraction, selection, development, and retention as top ongoing activities.
- Grow a culture that embraces talent management as a critical initiative and competitive advantage.
Requirements:
- 15+ years of experience in high-end residential landscape design/build construction and maintenance services with full operations and P&L responsibility and a track record of profitable success.