Hybrid Affiliate Integration & Optimization Lead

Schill Grounds Management; Cincinnati (OH); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Schill Grounds Management is seeking an Integration & Optimization Lead to drive best practices and standardized workflows across a growing affiliate network. You will partner with affiliate staff to implement core business applications, document processes, and optimize branch performance with an entrepreneurial mindset.

You will champion BMPs and SOPs while evaluating new software, supporting API projects, and ensuring successful adoption of tools across locations.

Qualifications

• Exceptional attention to detail and strong project management and organizational skills.
• Ability to build trusted relationships at every level of an organization.
• Self-motivated and self-driven, able to work independently with minimal direction.
• Sound judgment and confident decision-making in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to balance accountability with empathy; effective coach and active listener.
• Exceptional communication skills, written and verbal, with co-workers, affiliates, and leadership.
• Skilled change leader, comfortable guiding others through organizational change.
• Operational consulting mindset with a professional, ambassador-level presence.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a trusted advisor to newly acquired and existing affiliates, guiding them from acquisition through long-term partnership.
• Implement core business applications (including Aspire).
• Document and standardize operational processes to optimize branch performance.
• Champion the Collective's Best Management Practices (BMPs), Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and business workflows across affiliates.
• Evaluate new software solutions, document business requirements and workflows, and participate in User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Support API and systems integration projects, bringing an operational perspective to ensure new tools and enhancements align with affiliate needs and are successfully adopted.
• Hold affiliate teams accountable to integration milestones and operational expectations, while providing coaching, additional support, or a listening ear as needed.
• Track and report on key outcomes, including Aspire go-live timelines, affiliate satisfaction scores, and workflow standardization progress.
• Build trusted relationships at every level of affiliate organizations, representing the Landscape Collective with professionalism and integrity.
• Follow all company policies and procedures.
• Perform any other duties as assigned.

Skills

Project management

Relationship building

Communication

Change management

Operational consulting

Self-motivation

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in business/ops

Tools

Aspire software

Job description

Schill Grounds Management is seeking an Integration & Optimization Lead to drive best practices and standardized workflows across a growing affiliate network. You will partner with affiliate staff to implement core business applications, document processes, and optimize branch performance with an entrepreneurial mindset.

You will champion BMPs and SOPs while evaluating new software, supporting API projects, and ensuring successful adoption of tools across locations.