Group Manager, Vice President

Group Manager, Vice President

Location: Beaverton, Oregon (hybrid, two work-from-home days per week)

Industry: Commercial Construction

Excelon Associates has been engaged on a confidential basis to identify a Group Manager, Vice President for a leading national commercial construction firm. This senior leadership role is responsible for the full performance of a designated work program, from business development through project delivery. The selected executive will set strategic direction, manage financial outcomes, lead teams, and own the client relationship portfolio for their program.

The Group Manager carries full accountability for the assigned work program at every stage of the project lifecycle. The role spans operational leadership, financial stewardship, talent development, stakeholder engagement, and risk oversight. Decisions are made independently in most areas, with guidance offered to direct reports and senior leadership consulted on matters of significant scope. The next step on the career track is Group Manager II.

• Safety Culture: Champions an injury‑free work environment by setting the tone personally and coaching others on safe practices.
• Executive Leadership: Partners with senior leadership on company strategy and helps roll out enterprise‑wide initiatives, standards, and policies inside the work program.
• Strategic Direction: Translates broader organizational plans into actionable direction for the team, covering all phases of project delivery.
• Client Engagement: Acts as the senior point of contact for key clients. Develops a thorough understanding of each client's business and cultivates lasting relationships that generate repeat work and new opportunities.
• Growth and Business Development: Owns the work program's growth strategy in alignment with company goals and KSIs. Identifies new opportunities, qualifies leads, shapes RFP responses, and crafts win strategies based on a strong read of the competitive landscape, fee benchmarks, internal capacity, and market positioning. Plays an active role in pursuits, presentations, and marketing. Negotiates contracts to protect margin, mitigate risk, and lock in favorable terms.
• Risk Oversight: Functions as the escalation point for project, contractual, financial, and client risks across the program. Works through staffing challenges, schedule pressures, subcontractor matters, and change orders. Conducts risk assessments and elevates concerns to leadership with proposed paths forward, negotiating contingency spend and fee adjustments as appropriate.
• Subcontractor Partnerships: Cultivates strong, durable relationships with the subcontractor community. Drives qualification and selection processes to align partners with project goals, and shapes the broader subcontractor strategy for the program.
• Preconstruction: Engages clients during preconstruction at a leadership level. Coordinates internally and with outside partners on estimates, schedules, staffing approaches, and business plans tied to contractual commitments.
• Project Delivery: Reviews project health throughout the lifecycle to confirm contractual targets are met and team accountability is upheld.
• Resource Planning: Keeps staffing aligned with contractual commitments, schedules, and program constraints. Adjusts resource plans as conditions change.
• Industry Presence: Takes a visible role in the community and industry through board service, networking, and external representation of the company.
• Inclusive Culture: Promotes diversity and inclusion across the organization and applies the company's non‑discrimination policy consistently and proactively.

• Advanced written and verbal communication
• Advanced presentation capability
• Intermediate proficiency with MS Office
• Strong working knowledge of all project processes and how each contributes to project success
• Intermediate proficiency with construction project management and accounting platforms such as CMiC
• Advanced fluency in construction technology
• Intermediate command of Lean methodology
• Advanced ability to manage budgets, drive profitability, and generate future work
• Capability in…