Regional Director

Business Network International; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Business Network International is seeking a Regional Director to act as GM and P&L owner for a U.S. Core region, translating national priorities into regional execution and measurable plans.

You will lead a distributed leadership team, drive revenue growth, profitability, and member value while ensuring operating plans align with corporate strategy.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive multi-market operating leadership.
• Demonstrated P&L ownership, budgeting, forecasting and profitability improvement.
• Proven success leading a distributed team through multiple leaders.
• Strong financial-statement literacy and ROI-based decision making.

Responsibilities

• Own region revenue, operating expense, contribution margin, productivity and profitability.
• Lead region budgeting, forecasting and monthly business reviews with Finance.
• Explain performance versus budget and forecast and implement recovery plans.
• Build ROI-based cases for headcount, market investment and resource shifts.
• Translate national priorities into measurable region strategies, goals, and operating plans.
• Use scorecards and leading indicators to prioritize markets and corrective action.
• Make disciplined tradeoffs across growth, service, talent and cost.
• Use data, digital tools and AI-enabled insights to improve forecasting and decision-making.
• Create one region growth plan with the Director, Regional Development.
• Align launch capacity, pipeline, sequencing and post-launch stabilization.
• Use shared scorecards for launch quality and first-year performance.
• Lead, coach and develop Area Directors.
• Set goals, standards, decision rights and accountability.
• Conduct talent reviews and succession planning.
• Address performance and capability gaps promptly.
• Drive net Membership growth, renewal, Chapter health and visitor conversion.
• Ensure every market has an accountable growth and retention plan.
• Balance launch pace with quality, sustainability and Member value.
• Revenue, contribution margin and expense versus plan.
• Net Membership growth and chapter health measures.
• Launch quality and financial return.
• Area Director productivity and leadership strength.

Skills

P&L ownership

Forecasting

Budgeting

ROI analysis

Team leadership

Data-driven decisions

Strategic thinking

Multi-market leadership

Job description

Reporting to the National Director, Americas, the Regional Director is the general manager and P&L owner for an assigned U.S. Core region. The role translates strategy into an integrated plan for Member growth, revenue, profitability, Chapter health, retention and expansion.

The Regional Director serves as the general manager and P&L owner for an assigned U.S. Core region, translating national strategy and approved business priorities into regional execution.

Job Responsibilities:

Region P&L and Financial Management

• Own region revenue, operating expense, contribution margin, productivity and profitability.
• Lead region budgeting, forecasting and monthly business reviews with Finance.
• Explain performance versus budget and forecast and implement quantified recovery plans.
• Build ROI-based cases for headcount, market investment and resource shifts.

Region Strategy and Performance

• Translate national priorities into measurable region strategies, goals, and operating plans.
• Use scorecards and leading indicators to prioritize markets and corrective action.
• Make disciplined tradeoffs across growth, service, talent and cost.
• Use data, digital tools and AI-enabled insights to improve forecasting, decision-making and scalable execution.

Regional Development Partnership

• Create one region growth plan with the Director, Regional Development.
• Align launch capacity, pipeline, sequencing and post-launch stabilization.
• Use shared scorecards for launch quality, first-year performance and economics.

Leadership of Leaders

• Lead, coach and develop Area Directors.
• Set clear goals, standards, decision rights and accountability expectations. consequences.
• Conduct talent reviews, workforce planning and succession planning.
• Address performance and capability gaps promptly.

Growth and Member Value

• Drive net Membership growth, renewal, Chapter health and visitor conversion.
• Ensure every market has an accountable growth and retention plan.
• Balance launch pace with quality, sustainability, Member value and financial return.

Measures of Success

• Revenue, contribution margin and expense versus plan.
• Net Membership growth, renewal, Chapter health and visitor conversion.
• Launch quality, first-year performance and financial return.
• Area Director productivity, leadership strength and forecast accuracy.
• Any additional duties needed to help demonstrate our core values, drive our vision, and fulfill our mission.
• Accountability & Integrity
• Financial Acumen
• Strategic Thinking

Qualifications:

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive multi-market operating leadership.
• Demonstrated P&L ownership, budgeting, forecasting and profitability improvement.
• Proven success leading a distributed team through multiple leaders.
• Strong financial-statement literacy and ROI-based decision making.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading transformation and scalable operating models.

Physical Demands and Working Conditions:

Sedentary work. Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects. Repetitive motion. Substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers. The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading.

This is a full-time position. This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.