VP, Strategic Initiatives

Position Summary

The VP, Strategic Initiatives serves as a strategic partner and operational extension of the CEO and Executive Chairman, ensuring alignment and execution across the enterprise. This role acts as a trusted advisor, project leader, and cross‑functional liaison—driving strategic initiatives, improving organizational effectiveness, and enabling the CEO and Executive Chairman to focus on the highest‑impact priorities. The VP, Strategic Initiatives operates with significant autonomy and discretion, representing the CEO and Executive Chairman’s perspective across internal and external stakeholders including the Board of Directors, investors, segment leadership, and corporate functions.

• Partner with the CEO and Executive Chairman to develop, prioritize, and track enterprise‑wide strategic initiatives across the company’s four operating segments.
• Support the CEO and Executive Chairman in coordinating strategic priorities, capital allocation, and governance responsibilities with the Executive Chairman.
• Prepare briefing materials, talking points, and strategic recommendations for Board meetings, investor presentations, and executive leadership sessions.

• Help the CEO and Executive Chairman manage the organizational complexity of rapid growth—including workforce scaling, capacity expansion across multiple facilities, and the coordination of long‑duration, high‑value customer relationships.
• Maintain consolidated cross‑segment visibility into the company’s data center pipeline, including demand signals, capacity constraints, and execution risks.

• Drive accountability for enterprise priorities by tracking progress, removing obstacles, and escalating issues across C‑Suite executives and segment Presidents.
• Identify operational inefficiencies or process gaps and recommend solutions to improve organizational performance and scalability.
• Support the implementation and monitoring of enterprise initiatives such as D365, IT upgrades, HRIS, and HVAC/plumbing expansion, and cross‑segment data center service coordination.

• Manage the CEO and Executive Chairman strategic agenda, ensuring time is allocated to the highest‑impact activities.
• Synthesize complex inputs into clear, actionable summaries for the CEO; draft and review executive communications including internal memos, Board correspondence, and external messaging.
• Coordinate preparation for earnings calls, investor conferences, shareholder meetings, and Board and Committee meetings in collaboration with the CAO, CFO, and external advisors.

• Support the CEO and Executive Chairman in evaluating acquisition opportunities, including strategic assessment, coordination of due diligence work streams, and preparation of investment recommendations.
• Oversee post‑acquisition integration planning and execution in coordination with segment leadership and corporate functions, ensuring newly acquired operations are integrated effectively into the company’s decentralized model.
• Track integration milestones and report progress to the CEO, Executive Chairman and executive team.

• Partner with the CFO and finance team to prepare financial analyses, scenario modeling, and capital allocation recommendations.
• Assist in annual budgeting and long‑range planning processes.
• Monitor key financial and operational metrics—including backlog conversion rates, margin trends, capacity utilization, and remaining performance obligations—flagging variances requiring CEO and Executive Chairman attention.

• Support the CEO and Executive Chairman leadership development and succession planning responsibilities.
• Help facilitate executive team effectiveness through meeting design, agenda management and follow‑up on action items.

• Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 8–12 years of progressive professional experience, with at least 3 years in a strategic advisory or senior operational role.
• Strong financial acumen, including…