Value Creation Director

at  VALCOURT BUILDING SERVICES LLC

ABOUT VALCOURT:

The Valcourt Group is the premier provider of commercial restoration, waterproofing, and window cleaning services in the United States. The Valcourt Group is private equity backed and has grown by a factor of 4x over the past three years. Partnering with property owners and managers, we service all aspects of a building’s exterior. Founded in 1986 as a small window cleaning company in Washington, DC, the company has now grown into one of the largest building services companies in the country. For more information about our service offerings, you can visit us at www.valcourt.group.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Minimum of 7 years of experience, ideally with a mix of management consulting and industry experience
• Industrial services experience preferred, but not required
• Intellectually curious and excited about working on different cross-functional problems across all levels of the organization
• Ability to lead executive level meetings and manage different stakeholders while also ‘rolling up your sleeves’ to do analysis / make presentations and ‘get things done’
• Ability to juggle multiple projects and initiatives simultaneously as well as effectively collaborate across teams and to work in a diverse, fast paced environment
• Demonstration of excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, communicating effectively with customers, executives, leaders, program/initiative owners, stakeholders, and other audiences as well as delivering presentations before large audiences
• MBA preferred but not required

ABOUT THE VALUE CREATION DIRECTOR ROLE:

• Executive level, high profile role reporting to the CEO
• The ideal candidate is a strategic and tactical problem solver with a “hands-on” orientation, who can create a sense of urgency, make decisions quickly, and effectively influence others. You will be collaboratively working at all levels of the organization – working with the C-suite while also directly supporting and working with the branch managers and their local teams.
• The candidate must have the drive and ability to help develop strategic, analytical, and financial frameworks, to identify practical and meaningful business improvement opportunities, and to define and implement solutions.
• The successful candidate should have substantial consulting experience with a leading strategy or operations consulting firm, with strong demonstrated analytic and project management capabilities. Ideally this will be someone who has at least reached the Manager level in their respective firm, and preferably has some experience operating in a business, either before or after their consulting experience.
• Although it is an individual contributor role, you will be working collaboratively with all functions, including Operations, Sales, Finance, HR, and IT.
• This position is ideally based in Houston, TX, but we are open to consideration of other cities with a major airport hub. There is an expectation of 25-30% travel for this role.

KEY ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Lead special projects and conduct select business deep-dives that are top of mind for the CEO and other senior executives
• Project manage key value creation initiatives directly as needed, and partner with key value creation plan initiative owners to provide thought leadership support, coaching, capability building, and pressure testing the assumptions and future state design as needed. Projects span a wide range of disciplines and functions that will include:
• Pricing and salesforce effectiveness
• Process improvement
• Annual strategic planning and market assessments
• Information Technology
• Branch specific deep-dives
• Support the CEO in pulling together the content creation and presentations for the regular cadence of internal and external meetings, including Board meetings, monthly operations reviews, and internal leadership calls
• Conduct and facilitate quarterly leadership off-sites for the CEO and SVPs as needed
• Partner with the CEO and CFO to continue to improve the annual planning and budgeting process, including working with each branch / region on the underlying growth plan and the tactical activities needed to realize the plan
• Keep an “ear to the ground” by building relationships across all levels of the organization and share feedback with the CEO and management team with the goal of maintaining high employee engagement and team morale
• Be the primary contact point for detailed day-to-day questions & requests from our private equity ownership group
• Vet external consultants and scope out / manage external consulting projects as needed