General Managers | Fire & Life Safety | Eastern & Central US | PE-Backed Platform
We’re supporting a PE-backed Fire & Life Safety platform with $100-150M in revenue and an active acquisition pipeline. The platform is building out regional leadership across the Eastern and Central US.
We’re looking for established multi-site operators, as well as leaders running substantial branches who are ready to step into a regional P&L.
The key is winning the hearts and minds of acquired businesses. You need to earn the trust of owners and local teams, understand what made each business successful, and improve performance without losing that.
The Role
Own financial and operating performance across the businesses within your remit, with responsibility for sales and service operations, local leadership development, and acquisition integration.
Revenue, margin, labor productivity, and team retention are not just reporting metrics here. You need to understand what drives them and work with local leaders to improve them.
What You’re Actually Being Trusted With
- Regional P&L performance: budgeting, forecasting, cost control, and translating financial targets into clear operating priorities
- Sales and service execution: working with local leaders on revenue growth, scheduling, capacity, and consistent service delivery
- Acquired-business integration: building relationships with owners and teams, establishing accountability, and introducing common processes without disrupting what already works
- Leadership development: coaching branch leaders to own their numbers, address underperformance, and build stronger teams
- A growing regional footprint as additional businesses join the platform
What the Role Requires
- Multi-site operating experience, or substantial branch-level P&L ownership with readiness for a regional remit
- A financial track record you can explain clearly: the size of your P&L, the challenges you inherited, the decisions you made, and the results
- Experience using field service management systems such as ServiceTrade or Inspect Point is preferred
- Sales and service operations leadership, not just oversight of one function
- Experience leading established teams through change and earning buy-in rather than relying on authority
- Acquisition integration experience, highly preferred
- $25M+ P&L experience, highly preferred
Who This Is Not For
- A title upgrade without meaningful P&L ownership
- Leaders who see integration as issuing new processes rather than bringing people with them
- Operators who can report the numbers but cannot explain what they would change to improve them
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This position is listed as full time and onsite.