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Our client is a global industrial maintenance services provider working with major manufacturers around the world. They are now investing in North America and are hiring a Vice President to lead and grow their business across the United States and Mexico.

This is a builder role. The company is in a period of transformation, and processes, structures and teams are still being shaped. You will have the mandate, the visibility and the ownership to put your stamp on the region: winning major new contracts, expanding into new territories and building a high-performing organization around you.

If you thrive in environments where you create the playbook rather than follow one, this is your opportunity.

Key Responsibilities

Grow the business

• Own full P&L for the North America market area, including sites, contracts and commercial performance
• Find, pursue and close large, strategic maintenance service contracts with industrial customers
• Expand the business into new regions and customer segments across the US and Mexico
• Lead complex negotiations, major bids and contract renewals, targeting 100% renewal
• Turn the regional business plan into clear performance targets, and deliver on them

Build the organization

• Lead and develop the Sales Manager, Operations Manager, Site Managers and operational teams
• Design a scalable organization, leadership structure and processes to support profitable growth
• Build a culture of ownership, accountability and continuous improvement
• Drive competence development, skills mapping and succession planning

Lead with safety

• Set a strong, visible safety culture across all sites
• Ensure full HSE compliance, and integrate safety and risk management into every business decision
• Move site operations toward world-class HSE performance

Deliver for customers

• Build long-term, strategic customer relationships based on measurable value
• Ensure every contract delivers what was promised, and adapt to customers’ changing needs

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in industrial services, maintenance services or a related field, including senior leadership
• Proven track record of winning and growing large, complex service contracts
• Strong P&L ownership with measurable business results
• Experience in maintenance, reliability or asset management services
• Strong negotiation skills with strategic customers, complex contracts and major bids
• Experience leading multi-site teams and leading across cultures
• Comfortable in a building or transformation environment, with the drive to create structure where none exists yet
• Strong commitment to safety leadership
• Willing and able to travel about 50% across the US and Mexico
• Authorized to work in the United States

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (a Master’s degree is a plus)
• Experience with an industrial maintenance or asset management services provider
• Working proficiency in Spanish
• Experience with operational excellence methods such as Six Sigma, TPM or RCM
• Experience growing a regional business in a turnaround, start-up or high-growth setting
• Experience working within an international organization
• Network within US manufacturing industries outside Kentucky

Benefits

• Base salary: $160,000 to $200,000 per year, depending on experience and qualifications + bonus
• Benefits: a competitive benefits package, to be discussed during the recruitment process

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