President

People First Solutions; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment firm is seeking a President to drive growth and strengthen market leadership in the construction supply industry. The ideal candidate has over 10 years of senior management experience, including a strong sales background and multi-branch leadership. Responsibilities include strategic direction, operational performance, and leading a high-performing team. This role requires exceptional communication skills and the ability to enhance customer experience and financial results.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of senior management experience in construction supply.
• Experience leading multi-branch organizations.
• Skilled negotiator with sales orientation.

Responsibilities

• Deliver profitable revenue growth through sales leadership.
• Lead senior leaders across various departments.
• Ensure cross-functional alignment to improve results.

Skills

Sales leadership

Strategic thinking

Communication skills

Operational performance

P&L responsibility

Education

Post-secondary education

Job description

Exclusive Floors is British Columbia’s largest provider and installer of flooring and tile, serving the developer, contractor, retailer and insurance markets. Exclusive Floors is a long standing leader in the industry with an exceptional reputation in the market. For over 40 years, the company has provided builders, developers, designers, and homeowners with exceptional service, deep product expertise, and industry-leading installation quality. Exclusive Floors is currently searching for a President to accelerate growth, strengthen market leadership, and ensure the delivery of exceptional service and financial results year after year.

The Role:

Working closely with the retiring President, the incoming President will gain deep insight into the business, its people, customers and supplier relationships. Reporting to the Braidy Corporation executive team, the President will set the strategic direction, drive profitable growth, elevate operational performance, and build a unified, high-performing leadership team. The ideal candidate will bring strong construction-industry experience, a proven sales record, multi-branch leadership experience, and the ability to scale the organization for long-term success.

• Deliver profitable revenue growth through strong sales leadership, market insight, disciplined pricing, and confident negotiation and decision‑making.
• Lead, mentor, and hold senior leaders accountable across sales, installations, operations, finance, and branch management, with clear expectations and measurable outcomes.
• Drive long‑term growth and competitiveness in a changing construction market, strengthen key relationships with suppliers, customers, and internal leaders to support scale, reliability, and long‑term partnership value.
• Stay closely connected to customers and the market to anticipate demand, identify trends, and translate insights into sourcing, product, and service decisions ahead of competitors.
• Maintain full accountability for financial and operational performance, using KPIs, data, and sound judgment to guide execution and continuous improvement.
• Improve margins, reduce waste, control costs, and elevate the end‑to‑end customer experience, across sales, installation, warehousing, and procurement.
• Oversee performance appraisal programs, lead all hiring and termination decisions, ensure compliance, timely, accurate completion of all administrative and HR documentation.

The Requirements:

• 10+ years of senior management experience, including 5+ years in senior leadership within the construction supply industry; additional post‑secondary education is considered an asset.
• A strategic thinker with proven success leading multi‑branch or multi‑location organizations, with demonstrated ability to scale performance across locations.
• Demonstrated capability to lead, mentor, and hold senior management accountable across sales, installations, operations, finance, and branch leadership.
• An engaged leader with strong communication skills who models accountability, collaboration and has a mindset for continuous improvement.
• Ability to establish clear ownership, KPIs, and performance expectations across all functional areas and drive disciplined execution.
• Proven track record for ensuring cross‑functional alignment between sales, operations, installations, and accounting to eliminate silos and improve results.
• Strong sales orientation, with experience winning in competitive B2B and B2C environments.
• Proven track record in financial literacy, including full P&L leadership responsibility.
• Experience supporting mergers and acquisitions, including due diligence and post‑acquisition integration, is an asset.
• Skilled negotiator able to balance short‑term performance with long‑term partnerships.
• Willingness to travel frequently within the Lower Mainland for leadership, branch, and customer engagement.

Our goal at People First Solutions is to hire top performers for our clients. To this end, our selection process is thorough, enabling us to collect very detailed information. We base our selection process on Topgrading®, a proven method that allows our clients’ to effectively match top performing candidates to key leadership roles. As well, we integrate TalentSorter®, a behavioural science based assessment tool to help companies hire for “fit.”

If you possess the fundamental skills, experience and education required to be successful in this role we invite you to provide a cover letter and résumé in PDF, in confidence to either Bob Murray or Adrienne Giffen.

We thank all applicants for their interest in this role.