President, Management

A great UHY client is seeking a President to join their team. The ideal candidate will be a hands‑on, strategic executive with strong regulatory, operational, and financial leadership experience, and a proven ability to scale organizations in a highly regulated environment.

The President role is an onsite position, working 5 days per week in a fast‑paced, demanding environment.

• Set and execute the overall company strategy while ensuring strict regulatory compliance in a highly competitive and regulated industry.
• Lead annual and multi‑year strategic planning processes and present strategic recommendations to ownership.
• Develop operating plans, capital plans, and expansion roadmaps aligned with growth, profitability, and risk management goals.
• Serve as the senior executive responsible for license stewardship, renewal timelines, and maintaining regulatory good standing.
• Oversee responses to audits, inspections, investigations, and enforcement actions.
• Ensure full compliance with all state regulatory requirements, tracking systems, and local municipal ordinances.
• Own revenue management, budgeting, forecasting, financial KPIs, cash flow management, payroll, and AP/AR oversight.
• Drive margin optimization, cost discipline, and pricing architecture.
• Collaborate with internal bookkeeping and external CPA partners on monthly financial preparations.
• Implement continuous process improvements to increase top‑line and bottom‑line performance.
• Ensure financial discipline, operational efficiency, and strong internal controls.
• Make real‑time business decisions to protect assets, inventory, and revenue.
• Act as a financial steward, balancing growth, profitability, and operational investment.
• Direct and integrate leadership across cultivation, processing, and retail operations.
• Establish KPIs and accountability frameworks for yield, potency, labor efficiency, COGS, SG&A, and sales.
• Ensure SOP standardization, quality control, and operational scalability.
• Improve inventory management, yield optimization, and supply chain resilience.
• Conduct regular site visits to operational and retail locations to ensure compliance, operational consistency, and sustained sales growth.
• Build and lead a high‑performing management team with strong accountability and ownership culture.
• Oversee managerial hiring, performance management, development, and succession planning.
• Ensure alignment between leadership, employees, and ownership.
• Guide brand strategy and product portfolio development.
• Manage retail sales strategy, including pricing, promotions, and market positioning.
• Monitor competitive landscape, including pricing trends, product offerings, promotions, and regulatory shifts.
• Oversee HR‑related matters including staffing, employee relations, workplace issues, and incident response.
• Serve as a hands‑on problem solver across legal, HR, compliance, and operational challenges.
• Exercise sound judgment in handling complex HR or legal matters and elevate to counsel when appropriate.

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Management, or a related field required.
• 10+ years of experience as a President, General Manager, Operations Director, or senior executive.
• Proven ability to lead, scale, and optimize complex, multi‑vertical organizations.
• Strong strategic mindset with execution discipline; decisive, data‑driven, and accountable.
• High‑integrity, compliance‑oriented leadership style.
• Comfortable operating in a rapidly evolving regulatory environment.
• Strong financial acumen with experience managing P&L, budgeting, forecasting, and cash flow.
• Experience implementing process‑improvement frameworks such as Lean, Six Sigma, or continuous improvement.
• High emotional intelligence with strong communication, leadership, and conflict‑resolution skills.
• Deep understanding of risk management, governance, and compliance.
• Self‑starter with a proactive, “go‑getter” mentality and strong operational ownership.
• Willingness and ability to work onsite full‑time in a hands‑on leadership capacity.

• Prior senior leadership experience in consumer packaged goods, manufacturing, agriculture, or other operationally intensive industries.
• M&A, restructuring, or turnaround experience.
• Proven track record of executing strategy and driving measurable business results.

UHY Advisors' Resource Solutions Group provides clients with accomplished professionals to support finance, accounting, internal audit and tax teams. Whether it is permanent placement, project work, loaned staff support or business process outsourcing‑we are ready to meet your needs.

Our team has extensive experience with a wide range of clients from middle market, closely held organizations to large Fortune 500 companies. We focus on finance and accounting, internal audit, IT audit and tax. We offer direct, personal involvement from senior practitioners and strive to meet clients' needs rapidly.