Regional Vice President

Join Tessera and make a difference! Tessera is:

• A national leader in employing individuals with disabilities and veterans.
• Composed of a dynamic, growing team of social entrepreneurs.
• Operating self‑sustaining businesses across 15 states and in the District of Columbia, workforce of over 1,700 employees.
• Dedicated to delivering an exceptional customer experience to our customers.
• Committed to offering an outstanding employee support and development program.

Tessera’s Home Office supports nationwide operations with a team of highly trained and motivated professionals in finance, human resources, vocational and workforce development, information systems, strategy, business development, communications, marketing, quality, safety, learning, and more.

Savage Mills, MD – in person

Exempt

$147,000 - $219,000 plus bonus potential depending on performance

Full‑time | Monday - Friday 7:30am – 4:00pm (flexible start and end times depending on scheduling needs)

Lead a set of operationally different, geographically diverse, and customer‑centric sites. The RVP also leads a cross‑functional team (CFT) that provides functional support to each Tessera contract site. Tessera’s RVPs are skilled at strategy (e.g., implementing change across their sites), skilled at tactics (e.g., highly involved in contract and labor negotiations; safety leaders), and skilled at people (e.g., leading the cross‑functional team as well as their team of site managers).

They are ultimately accountable for each site’s performance on a wide number of measures - financial, mission, safety, employee life cycle, customer relations, and employee relations. They are true servant leaders, empowering their team and site managers to innovate for the customer and for the employee. As servant leaders, they also create a culture of accountability that involves feedback, coaching and, if necessary, performance management.

• Be empowered to deliver world‑class service and products to all customers. The RVP will lead a cross functional team of professionals charged with supporting operations for project sites across multiple states that deliver a wide variety of services and products.
• Fully supports Tessera’s purpose of Providing Opportunities to People with Disabilities. Partners with each Tessera site to achieve and sustain Ability One Program requirements.
• Responsible for the recruitment, mentoring and retention of outstanding Site Managers that deliver on all aspects of Tessera’s performance measures.
• Drives a world‑class safety management system and is accountable for safety culture for all sites within the business unit. Models and promotes a safety mindset and coaches sites to continuously improve their safety performance. Demands safety accountability where safety performance is below expectations.
• Develops and maintains strong working relationships with customer contracting staff as well as customer technical representatives. This involves recurring in‑person meetings with these customers and includes travel when necessary.
• Strong employee relations skills including servant leadership, building morale, communication, providing feedback, and conflict resolution. Collaborates closely with CFT HR Partners and the Home Office HR Team for proactively addressing employee relations at the CFT‑ and site‑level.
• Mentors, motivates and inspires CFT team members and site managers with a positive “can do” attitude
• Is comfortable and confident interacting with Ability One and Source America executives and staff, if required.
• Actively participates in the identification, pursuit and acquisition of new projects. Which can involve; briefing prospective customers on Tessera’s performance, understanding contract requirements, development of price proposals, crafting staffing plans, and ensuring subsequent new project meets Tessera’s standards for exceptional performance.
• Focused on continual process improvement, “balanced excellence” of site performance metrics, and combatting operational complacency.
• Is an active and contributing member of Tessera’s Executive Steering Group (ESG) including the design,…