General Manager

Sitreps 2 Steercos; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 170,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus up to 50%

Long-term incentive participation

Job summary

Sitreps 2 Steercos is seeking a General Manager to lead a long-established commercial services business within a private equity backed platform. This on-site role centers on delivering P&L ownership, driving sales discipline, and aligning operations with platform standards as the business scales into new markets.

The GM will partner with the founder, set performance targets, manage pricing and back-office processes, and lead growth efforts with new territories and acquisitions.

Qualifications

• Full P&L ownership as a General Manager or equivalent in a trade/blue‑collar services business of comparable size or larger.
• Operating seat in current or most recent role; consulting or banking is acceptable but not the last job.
• Track record of building accountability in a sales team: targets, cadence, pipeline discipline, and measurable results.
• Experience raising the bar on an established team without compromising culture.
• Strong financial command: read the P&L, model the levers, and defend the numbers.
• Willingness to be on site in the St. Louis area every day.

Responsibilities

• P&L Ownership: Own revenue, gross margin, and EBITDA; build annual budget and monthly platform reporting; decide pricing and costs.
• Sales Leadership: Set sales targets, manage weekly pipeline/quotas, ensure accountability, develop a scalable sales motion.
• Operations: Oversee dispatch, service delivery, installs, procurement, and receivables; enforce standards.
• People: Assess talent, develop leaders, recruit gaps, and make decisive personnel decisions.
• Founder Partnership: Collaborate closely with the founder; translate field instincts into repeatable processes.
• Growth: Once stable, justify new markets, lead acquisitions, and develop new service lines.

Skills

P&L ownership

Sales leadership

Operations management

Financial acumen

On-site readiness

Job description

LOCATION Philadelphia, PA On-site.

ROLE TYPE Full-Time Employee

REPORTS TO Platform operating leadership

BASE $170,000 – $220,000

BONUS up to 50% annual

LONG-TERM Long-term incentive participation in the business

Company Overview

We are a growing platform of commercial field services businesses. Founders who join the platform keep a real stake in what they built, and the platform brings the capital, systems, and operating support to help each business grow.

This role leads one of those businesses: a long-established, founder-built commercial services company in the Tampa region serving facility and industrial customers, with its own service, installation, sales, and office teams.

The Opportunity

The business is bringing on a General Manager as it scales within a national, private equity backed platform. The GM owns the operating system of the business. The full team reports to the GM, and the GM reports to the platform.

The job comes in two phases. First, performance: put targets and a weekly cadence behind the sales team, get pricing right, tighten service delivery and the back office, and make sure the right people are in the right seats. Then, growth: new territories and tuck-in acquisitions in a regional market that is not well served today, with the GM leading integration.

If you want a blank slate with no one to consult, this isn't it. If you want to take a strong founder-built business to its next stage, it is.

Key Responsibilities

• P&L Ownership. Own revenue, gross margin, and EBITDA. Build the annual budget, run the monthly reporting package with the platform, and make the pricing and cost decisions behind it.
• Sales Leadership. Set targets for the sales team, run a weekly pipeline and quoting cadence, and hold each seller accountable to it. Build a sales motion that does not depend on any one person's relationships.
• Operations. Run dispatch, service delivery, installs, procurement, and receivables to clear standards. Drive adoption of the platform's shared systems.
• People. Assess the team, develop the leaders already in it, recruit where there are gaps, and make people decisions with judgment and follow-through.
• Founder Partnership. Work side by side with the founder as a true partner. Bring him the reasoning and the data behind key decisions, and turn his field instincts into repeatable process.
• Growth. Once the base business is performing, build the case for new markets, lead the integration of acquired businesses, and develop new service lines.

What You Bring

Required

• Full P&L ownership as a General Manager or equivalent in a trade or blue-collar services business of comparable size or larger: HVAC, electrical, mechanical, fire and life safety, security integration, industrial equipment service, specialty contracting, or similar.
• An operating seat as your current or most recent role. Consulting or banking in your background is fine; it should not be your last job.
• A track record of building accountability in a sales team: targets, cadence, pipeline discipline, and results you can point to.
• Experience raising the bar on an established team without breaking its culture.
• Strong financial command: you read the P&L without help, model the levers, and defend the number.
• Willingness to be on site in the St. Louis area every day.

Preferred

• Experience inside a PE-backed or multi-brand services platform: monthly reporting, system conversions, and add-on integrations from the operator's side.
• Experience working alongside a founder or owner after an acquisition.
• Commercial B2B service experience: service agreements, quoted project backlogs, and facility customers.
• Familiarity with a modern field service management system.
• Ties to Philly
• US Military Veteran

How You Get Paid

Base salary is $170,000 to $200,000. The annual bonus is tied to EBITDA dollar growth, so it pays for building the business, not for holding it flat. The GM also participates in a long-term incentive pool in the business, sized for this seat.

Prepared by Sitreps Talent September 2026