Group Vice President, Operations

Blue Signal Search; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Blue Signal Search is seeking an accomplished construction executive to lead a diverse portfolio of operating businesses in New York. This high-visibility role requires translating strategy into results, strengthening profitability, and building leadership across multiple markets while maintaining an entrepreneurial mindset.

You will direct multi-location operations with significant revenue responsibility, develop and mentor senior leaders, and partner with executive teams to evaluate expansion

Qualifications

• Extensive operations management with P&L responsibility across multiple business units.
• Proven construction-industry leadership and large-scale project execution.
• Strong financial acumen: budgeting, forecasting, profitability.

Responsibilities

• Direct a portfolio of construction operations with accountability for profit and growth.
• Translate priorities into actionable operating plans with clear accountability.
• Improve performance via forecasting, resource planning, and profitability management.
• Partner with leaders to boost project execution and margins.
• Develop senior leaders and strengthen succession planning.
• Learns to leverage data to identify opportunities and scale best practices.
• Collaborate on expansion, new markets, and strategic investments.

Skills

Operations management

P&L ownership

Construction experience

Strategic planning

Leadership development

Financial analysis

Multi-location leadership

Travel required

Job description

Location: On-site in New York, NY with regular travel

Our client is an established construction organization entering an important phase of continued growth and operational evolution. They are seeking an accomplished executive to lead a significant portfolio of operating businesses, strengthen performance across multiple markets, and build the leadership infrastructure needed for the next stage of the organization. This is a highly visible opportunity for a construction executive who knows how to translate strategy into results, improve profitability, develop exceptional leaders, and scale a complex operation without losing the entrepreneurial mindset that made it successful.

This Role Offers:

• Executive-level ownership of a substantial, multi-location operating portfolio with meaningful influence over growth strategy and financial performance.


• Opportunity to shape how a well-established construction business scales, including operating discipline, leadership development, market expansion, and organizational capabilities.


• High-impact partnership with executive leadership and experienced business unit leaders.


• Competitive executive compensation, performance-based incentive opportunity, comprehensive benefits, paid time off, and retirement benefits.

Focus:

• Direct a portfolio of construction operations with accountability for financial performance, execution, leadership effectiveness, and sustainable growth.


• Translate enterprise priorities into actionable operating plans, measurable objectives, and clear accountability across multiple business units and locations.


• Strengthen financial and operational performance through disciplined forecasting, resource planning, profitability management, and ongoing evaluation of business results.


• Partner with business leaders to improve project execution, productivity, margins, and overall return on resources.


• Develop and mentor senior leaders while strengthening succession planning, organizational depth, employee engagement, and retention.


• Use operational data and business insights to identify performance opportunities, improve processes, and establish scalable practices across the organization.


• Collaborate with executive and commercial stakeholders to evaluate expansion opportunities, new markets, strategic investments, and other growth initiatives.


• Champion a high-performance culture centered on accountability, collaboration, safety, quality, risk management, and continuous improvement.

Skill Set:

• 10+ years of progressive operations management experience, including leadership of multiple business units, divisions, regions, or locations with significant revenue responsibility.


• Demonstrated success leading and growing a construction-industry business unit with full P&L responsibility. Commercial electrical contracting experience is strongly preferred.


• Proven ability to generate profitable growth, improve operational performance, and strengthen organizational capabilities within a complex business.


• Experience leading senior-level teams across a multi-location environment, with the ability to establish credibility and align leaders around strategic priorities.


• Strong financial acumen encompassing budgeting, forecasting, profitability management, financial analysis, and resource allocation.


• Strategic planning and execution expertise, with the ability to convert long-term objectives into measurable operating priorities and results.


• Demonstrated success developing people, building succession pipelines, coaching senior leaders, and attracting and retaining leadership talent.


• Strong analytical, decision-making, problem-solving, communication, and relationship-building capabilities, along with the ability to travel regularly.