Chief of Staff - Newport News, VA

The Opportunity: Chief of Staff for PE Operating Company

Location: Newport News, VA

Company Overview:

The Mil Vet  is partnered with PE clients who are consolidating fragmented industries across America. These are industries that have no national presence or brands that dominate the market. Our PE partners create value through consolidation and quickly scaling the core business in a high growth environment. As an example, a sister Port Co in this fund grew its revenue from $0 to $2B in 4 years and after 300+ acquisitions.

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Our clients enter a market through acquisition, hire a leader to be its champion for growth [Chief Growth Officer], and begin to rapidly scale the local market. As the new market grows, they search for other local complementary businesses to tie under the leadership team, and new tools, processes, and methods of doing business that will eventually increase overall revenue.

This PE client is a top-decile private equity fund with a long history of successful investments in professional, residential, and tech services. This specific opportunity is with a new holding company focused on property management and HOA's.

Their executive leaders who are building this firm are experienced operators and represent an all-star team. Past leadership hires for other portfolio companies have included high performing Veterans with strong leadership skills and next-level execution abilities. Military profiles include leaders from Special Forces, Ranger Regiment, the nuclear Navy, USMC Infantry and MARSOC, etc.

Position Details:

This is an opportunity to be a Chief of Staff at one of the company's partner brands. The Chief of Staff will drive growth, performance metrics, create an amazing workplace culture and develop all staff and management, constantly striving to be a world-class operator and helping others to do the same.

Additional primary responsibilities will include:

• Successful integration of tuck-in acquisitions that occur in your market area
• Hiring and managing business leaders within your company
• Partnering with peer leaders to ensure that best practices are shared across the full platform
• Working with peers and leadership to share best practices

Your Professional Qualifications:

• 5+ years post-military experience in business growth
• Key attributes for the right hire:
• Unmatched will to win as a team
• Ownership mentality
• Growth mindset
• Able to identify opportunities, motivate employees, and create a culture of growth
• Data-driven decision making
• KPI focused
• Servant leader mindset
• Enjoys building a team-first mentality
• Bias for action
• Detail and process oriented
• History of operating at high pace of play
• Deep respect for blue-collar workers
• History of building great teams of A-players with high retention

Compensation:

• Mid - high $200s
• Solid performance-based equity package
• Industry-leading benefits package

Next Steps:

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