President

Motor Coach Industries; Winnipeg; On-site; CAD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading motor coach company in Winnipeg, Manitoba seeks a dynamic President to provide strategic leadership across North America. You will drive operational excellence, customer satisfaction, and profitability while fostering a high-performance culture. The ideal candidate has over 10 years of senior executive experience, proven leadership skills, and a deep understanding of business growth in dynamic environments. This role includes a comprehensive benefits package and leadership at the forefront of innovation in transport solutions.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in senior executive leadership.
• Proven ability to drive business growth and operational efficiency.
• Experience with Boards of Directors and industry stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic and operational direction of MCI.
• Oversee customer satisfaction, safety, and profitability.
• Cultivate relationships with key stakeholders.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Collaboration

Financial management

Change management

Education

Undergraduate degree in Business or related field

Job description

Korn Ferry has partnered with our client on their search for the role, President, Motor Coach Industries.

Purpose of the Position

As President MCI, you are a key member of the NFI Group Executive Leadership Team, and you will lead the strategic and operational direction of MCI’s CAD ~500 million North American coach and service business. You will protect and grow MCI’s market position while concurrently driving transformational improvements in customer experience, productivity, quality and financial outcomes.

You will oversee critical business functions including customer satisfaction, safety, quality, delivery, working capital, and profitability. You will be a high-profile ambassador for the company, representing MCI’s interests with customers, government entities, and industry partners. With your already strong track record in talent and organizational development and cultural leadership, you will foster a high-performance environment built on trust, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide visionary leadership across North American operations - including manufacturing, customer service, sales, and field support - ensuring operational excellence, innovation, and sustained competitive advantage.
• Partner with the CEO, Board and your peers to shape and execute transformative strategies and business plans that drive long-term growth, profitability, and market leadership.
• Champion a purpose-driven, high-performance culture that reflects the company’s mission, vision, and values, while building organizational capability, leadership bench strength and superior customer value and financial performance.
• Cultivate and expand strategic relationships with key customers, industry partners, and government stakeholders to enhance market presence and influence.
• Establish enterprise-wide performance expectations, driving accountability and alignment across the leadership team to deliver measurable business outcomes while complying with all legal, regulatory, and financial governance standards.

Experience and Professional Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in Business or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 10+ years’ proven success in a senior executive leadership role, with significant experience in manufacturing, customer relations, and procurement.
• Proven ability to lead organizations through change, transformation, and growth in dynamic environments.
• Demonstrated ability to drive business growth, operational efficiency, and strategic execution.
• Collaborative leadership style with a strong track record of building trust and fostering accountability
• Experience working with Boards of Directors and external stakeholders, including government and industry groups.
• Deep expertise in financial management, strategic planning, and organizational development.
• Visionary thinker with a pragmatic, results-oriented approach to execution.
• Ability to travel up to 25% of the time, largely in North America.

Competencies

• Balances stakeholders: Leverages strong connections with internal and external stakeholders to anticipate their emerging priorities; ensures the organization adapts accordingly.
• Ensures accountability: Sets and clearly communicates expectations and accountabilities, monitors performance against goals, intervenes to address and remove barriers, and holds individuals and teams accountable.
• Plans & aligns: Aligns and integrates organizational structure, processes, capabilities, and resources with business objectives, and prioritizes and stages strategies and initiatives appropriately to ensure objectives are achieved.
• Strategic mindset: Develops enterprise-wide strategies that are distinctive in the market, create value for customers and other stakeholders, and provide sustainable competitive advantage.
• Instills trust: Gains the confidence and trust of others through transparency, integrity, and authenticity. Sets accurate expectations and follows through on commitments.
• Action oriented: Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.
• Collaborates: Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
• Decision quality: Making good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward.
• Interpersonal savvy: Relating openly and comfortably with diverse groups of people.
• Builds networks: Effectively building formal and informal relationships inside and outside the organization.

NFI Group Company Overview

NFI Group Inc. (NFI) is one of the world’s leading independent bus and motor coach providers, now at the forefront of zero-emission electric mobility. With revenues of $3.12B (2024) and a global team of over 9,000 members operating across 13 countries and under six innovative brands, NFI provides customized mass transportation solutions including vehicles, charging infrastructure, telematics and aftermarket parts and service support.

From its production facilities in Canada, the United States, the UK, and through third party build partners, NFI has the broadest and most advanced product offering in the North American bus and motor coach markets, plus the leading offering in the UK and Hong Kong, with a growing presence in New Zealand, Singapore and Western Europe.

The company unveiled its efforts to lead the evolution to increased adoption of ZEBs (or what it calls the ZEvolution). With more than 450 years of combined bus and motor coach design, manufacturing, and support experience NFI has been building electric vehicles since 1969 and offers the broadest offering of zero emission vehicles in the market, including battery-electric, hydrogen fuel-cell electric and trolley electric.

The company provides customized mobility solutions including buses and motor coaches, infrastructure sourcing and installation, telematics, and aftermarket parts and service support. The company has strategically evolved from a vehicle manufacturer to a solutions provider.

The common shares of NFI are listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) under the symbol NFI. NFI’s headquarters are in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

NFI Group Company Facts

NFI offers a wide range of propulsion agnostic bus and coach platforms, including market leading electric models. Through its low and zero emission buses, coaches, infrastructure and technology, leading the electrification of mass mobility around the world. With zero-emission buses and coaches, infrastructure, and technology, NFI meets today’s urban demands for scalable smart mobility solutions. Together, NFI is enabling more livable cities through connected, clean, and sustainable transportation. NFI is leading the ZEvolution™ to zero-emission mobility.

NFI seeks long-term success through industry-leading transportation solutions and commits to continuous investment in their people and processes to optimize, defend, diversify and grow the business.

NFI offers a comprehensive suite of mass transportation solutions, including zero-emission vehicles, charging infrastructure installation, telematics, and full parts and service aftermarket support, through our known and respected brands:

• New Flyer® (heavy-duty transit buses),
• MCI® (motor coaches),
• ARBOC® (low-floor cutaway and medium-duty buses),
• Alexander Dennis Limited (single and double-deck buses),
• Plaxton (motor coaches), and
• NFI Parts™.

In total, NFI supports its installed base of over 105,000 buses and coaches. 13 countries have NFI buses.

Motor Coaches Industries (MCI)

Motor Coach Industries (“MCI”) is North America’s public and private market motor coach leader, offering the all-time best-selling luxury motor coaches and workhorse commuter coaches, and brand new zero-emission luxury, high- and low-floor commuter coaches.

MCI operates two world-class, award-winning coach manufacturing facilities and seven service centres. Building on over 90 years of experience manufacturing motorcoaches, MCI actively supports more than 30,000 vehicles across North America. Indeed, nearly half of all motor coaches currently in service in the United States and Canada are MCI!

Additional Company Facts

• MCI is the sole provider of ISTV’s and Buy Buy-America compliant commuter coaches
• The company has recently seen significant public market wins in Ontario (Metrolinx) and Houston
• They are currently negotiating a 97-coach test fleet agreement with New York City
• They secured a Pacific Western account from Prevost and have been well rated in client satisfaction
• They won a 20 private market coach order from TransWest that was delivered successfully in Q2, 2025
• NFI market share in transit buses is approx. 50% while Motor Coach Industries comprises 30-40% of that part of the market.