VP, General Manager

Job Summary   The VP/GM provides leadership, direction, and resource stewardship to the organization. As the organization’s senior-most leader, VP/GM is accountable for overall the organization performance, the profitable achievement of organization goals, and for aligning objectives with the firm’s business strategy   Essential Job Functions*   Aligns the organization’s objectives with the firm’s business strategy through active participation in corporate strategic planning, strategy development, forecasting, resource planning, and budgeting. Accountable for effective organization design, including job roles and resource deployment. Meets assigned targets for profitable sales volume, market share, and other key financial performance objectives. Leads learning and development initiatives impacting the organization and provides stewardship of management talent. Through active, productive partnerships with Human Resources and Learning and Development functions, the incumbent establishes learning and development objectives essential to the organization’s success, oversees the effective delivery of training and development programs, actively assesses the value of training and development investments, and monitors learning and development outcomes to ensure high ROI. Establishes and governs the organization’s performance management system. This includes establishing guiding sales organizational principles for managing performance, establishing, and prioritizing critical performance measures for all jobs; overseeing the equitable allocation of organization objectives across all sectors; and ensuring all key managers are held accountable for assigned results. Provides leadership to the organization’s management team, while fostering a culture of safety, accountability, professional development, high-performance, and ethical behavior. Accountable for the organization’s budget. Proactively assesses existing organization support investments, including those in technology, training, and administrative support. Ensures support investments yield productivity benefits consistent with established objectives. Provides managerial leadership to Operations in meeting this responsibility. Leads organizational change initiatives by continuously assessing the need for organizational change, championing change initiatives, and removing obstacles impeding constructive organizational change. Establishes and maintains productive peer-to-peer relationship with key customers and suppliers   * This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change, or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice.   Employees are expected and encouraged to participate in safety and health program activities including immediately reporting hazards, immediately reporting unsafe work practices and incidents to supervisors, wearing required personal protective equipment, and participating in and supporting safety committee activities.   Education & Experience Bachelor’s degree Required; MBA preferred Master’s degree in business administration or equivalent Minimum ten years of senior management experience   Competencies – Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities     Operational Equipment   N/A Work Environment and Physical Demands Work Environment Office: Office setting. Seldom exposed to fumes or airborne particles. Loud working environment of the shop area. Functional vision and hearing required. Physical Demands Office: Sedentary.