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Vice President of Strategic Initiatives

SUMMARY

This position is with a national, private equity backed, air filtration manufacturer/distributor roll-up. The company is about to complete several acquisitions and will be going through massive growth and organizational transformation in the coming years. This role is responsible for the group’s overall strategic direction and the facilitation of it’s growth. The role requires a high degree of independence, initiative, judgment, and follow-through on a wide range of sensitive and complex issues and will report to the CEO.

Geography – Preference for home-base to be in Chicagoland but also open to remote as this is a national company.

Responsibilities:

• Manage multiple projects and drive fast-paced execution.
• Provide steady leadership in the face of uncertainty, change, and aggressive deadlines common to company growing rapidly through acquisitions.
• Responsible for managing the overall planning, execution and success of acquisitions.
• Defining the timeline, milestones, budget, resource plan, and success metrics.
• Facilitating day-to-day coordination, steering committee meetings, and communication of roles and responsibilities to key functional leaders.
• Monitoring project health through the effective use of project dashboards.
• Driving escalation and resolution of critical project related issues that would impact launch live date.
• Support execution of Company’s acquisition strategy supporting diligence workstreams.

Qualifications:

• 7+ years’ experience in various aspects of project consulting management.
• MBA or masters or a combination of equivalent education / work experience.
• Proven ability to build and lead and interact with diverse and distributed teams from various internal and external organizations across multiple locations.
• Experience developing workplans, project scopes, pricing estimates, and presentations to assist in project planning and execution.
• Ability to promote innovative ideas and accept the risks that are required to lead change.
• Ability to achieve broadly communicated objectives with a minimal amount of supervision.
• Ability to make decisions independently and to assume higher-level leadership responsibilities in critical situations.
• Proven problem-solving, decision-making, and financial skills.
• Effective consultative and influencing approach.
• Ability to enact change quickly.

• Strong Board presentation skills including the development of PowerPoint presentations.
• Excellent professional written/verbal communication and interpersonal skills.

Vice President of Strategic Initiatives

SUMMARY

This position is with a national, private equity backed, air filtration manufacturer/distributor roll-up. The company is about to complete several acquisitions and will be going through massive growth and organizational transformation in the coming years. This role is responsible for the group’s overall strategic direction and the facilitation of it’s growth. The role requires a high degree of independence, initiative, judgment, and follow-through on a wide range of sensitive and complex issues and will report to the CEO.

Geography – Preference for home-base to be in Chicagoland but also open to remote as this is a national company.

Responsibilities:

• Manage multiple projects and drive fast-paced execution.
• Provide steady leadership in the face of uncertainty, change, and aggressive deadlines common to company growing rapidly through acquisitions.
• Responsible for managing the overall planning, execution and success of acquisitions.
• Defining the timeline, milestones, budget, resource plan, and success metrics.
• Facilitating day-to-day coordination, steering committee meetings, and communication of roles and responsibilities to key functional leaders.
• Monitoring project health through the effective use of project dashboards.
• Driving escalation and resolution of critical project related issues that would impact launch live date.
• Support execution of Company’s acquisition strategy supporting diligence workstreams.

Qualifications:

• 7+ years’ experience in various aspects of project consulting management.
• MBA or masters or a combination of equivalent education / work experience.
• Proven ability to build and lead and interact with diverse and distributed teams from various internal and external organizations across multiple locations.
• Experience developing workplans, project scopes, pricing estimates, and presentations to assist in project planning and execution.
• Ability to promote innovative ideas and accept the risks that are required to lead change.
• Ability to achieve broadly communicated objectives with a minimal amount of supervision.
• Ability to make decisions independently and to assume higher-level leadership responsibilities in critical situations.
• Proven problem-solving, decision-making, and financial skills.
• Effective consultative and influencing approach.
• Ability to enact change quickly.

• Strong Board presentation skills including the development of PowerPoint presentations.
• Excellent professional written/verbal communication and interpersonal skills.

Bachelor’s Degree