Vice President of Operations

Help Shape the Next Stage of Growth at The Plant Company

The Plant Company (TPC) produces premium tropical houseplants for retailers nationwide from our state-of-the-art, controlled-environment operation in Stuarts Draft, Virginia. As a proud Proven Winners® leafjoy® partner, we’re building the people, processes, and systems that will support our continued growth.

We’re seeking an experienced commercial horticulture operations leader to join our Leadership Team as Vice President of Operations. This role combines strategic leadership with active involvement throughout our greenhouse, production, warehouse, and shipping operations.

You’ll work closely with our Leadership Team to strengthen operational performance, develop managers, and connect long-term production planning with changing customer demand.

The Opportunity

Our inventory is alive. Crop timing, availability, quality, labor, space, and seasonality all influence what we can deliver-and when. As TPC moves through a period of rapid growth, operational success depends on developing our people, strengthening processes, and building systems that can grow with the business while maintaining quality, service, and profitability.

We need a leader who understands the pace and complexity of a growing company, asks thoughtful questions, and takes time to learn our people, processes, and constraints before making significant structural changes. You’ll help build an operating organization that supports growth while keeping teams responsive to daily business needs.

What You’ll Lead

You’ll have executive responsibility for Production, Supply & Execution Planning, Purchasing, Inventory & Warehouse, Shipping, Logistics & Transportation, and Continuous Improvement.

Your priorities will include:

• Connect demand to execution. Translate approved demand and sales plans into coordinated production, capacity, labor, purchasing, inventory, and fulfillment plans.
• Improve operational performance. Establish clear expectations and measurable results across safety, quality, service, productivity, inventory, waste, cost, and profitability.
• Develop strong leaders. Coach managers, clarify responsibilities and decision authority, address performance gaps, and build dependable leadership depth.
• Stay close to the work. Maintain a visible presence throughout the operation, listen to employees, identify root causes, and ensure improvements are sustained.
• Strengthen financial results. Partner with Finance and department leaders on budgets, labor costs, inventory, working capital, and capital investments.
• Build systems that support growth. Improve processes, ERP use, reporting, and accountability while reducing dependence on founders for routine operating decisions.
• Lead across the company. Work with Sales, Growing, Finance, R&D, and Human Resources to make decisions based on the greater good of the organization.

What You’ll Bring

• Significant operations leadership experience in commercial horticulture, including greenhouse, nursery, tropical foliage, floriculture, young plants, bedding plants, or comparable large-scale live-goods production.
• Proven experience at the Director, VP, COO, or comparable level, leading multiple operational functions and managers.
• A strong understanding of living inventory, crop timing, availability, shrink, seasonality, labor, space utilization, and product flow.
• Demonstrated success developing leaders, strengthening accountability, and improving operational and financial performance.
• Strong financial judgment and experience using ERP systems, operational data, and KPIs to guide decisions.
• The ability to lead strategically while remaining hands-on, approachable, and effective in a growing organization.

Experience leading operations through rapid company growth,…