VP of Sales & Operations, Leadership Development

Belong to something. Believe in something. Strive for something. UHP creates professionals, builds leaders, and reveals purpose. We’re looking for people to join our team who believe this mission is worth showing up for every day.

UHP is a veteran-focused education and leadership development organization based on a scenic 800-acre campus in Northwest Arkansas.

The UHP School of Health & Performance offers program tracks in personal training, health coaching, and culinary nutrition. At the UHP Skilled Trades Institute, students earn the certifications necessary to launch careers in high-demand trades. Leadership development is baked into every program.

We also work with a network of employer and industry partners to open career pathways for our graduates. While we can't guarantee employment, everything we do is designed to give service members and veterans a real path toward meaningful careers.
Veterans, transitioning service members, and military spouses are strongly encouraged to apply.

At UHP, you are joining more than a company — you are helping build something designed to create lasting impact.

You will have the opportunity to:

• Contribute to a mission larger than yourself

• Help shape and build new systems and programs

• Work alongside passionate and purpose-driven people

• Directly impact the lives of veterans and future generations

• Be part of building the future workforce

About UHP Leadership Development

UHP's Leadership Development practice works with executive teams to build alignment and surface real leadership behavior under pressure, rather than teaching leadership theory. Engagements range from single-day executive sprints to multi-day executive deployments, each built around a common approach: diagnose how a team currently operates, align leadership on where the team needs to be in the next six months, design an experience that pressure-tests the team against that goal, and close with structured reflection and a 30-60-90 day action plan.

UHP has delivered this model for organizations including a NASCAR ownership group and multiple Fortune 500 companies, with measured gains in team unity, communication, trust, and speed to decision. Several of those relationships have continued into repeat, multi-year engagement.

Role Overview

UHP is building dedicated commercial and operational leadership behind its Leadership Development offering to support growing enterprise demand. The VP of Sales & Operations owns the business side of this practice end to end: strategic positioning, pipeline development, proposal and deal structuring, and the operational infrastructure that turns a signed engagement into a well-run program. This is a new, senior addition to the team, built to scale the commercial engine without pulling the existing delivery team off the work it does best.

scale the commercial engine without pulling the delivery team off the work it does best.

• Commercial strategy and positioning: Develop and sharpen the strategic narrative behind UHP's executive leadership development offering, and turn UHP's differentiated capabilities into materials and conversations that resonate with senior executive audiences.

• Business development and pipeline: Build and run a repeatable sales process for executive sprint and executive deployment engagements, identify and cultivate new enterprise relationships, and manage opportunities from first conversation through signed agreement.

• Deal structuring and program operations: Own proposal development, custom engagement scoping, contracting, pricing, and scheduling for on-site deployments and recurring client engagements.

• Cross-functional partnership: Work closely with the Leadership Development program and delivery team so commercial…