Job Description
Possible locations:
Chicago, Illinois
Peoria, Illinois
Quad Cities
Madison, Wisconsin
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Racine, Wisconsin
The Company:
Chronos Consulting is part of the Coberon Chronos Group, an award winning global leader in permanent and temporary staffing, RPO and business process automation solutions for global multinationals. The Group owns and operates 52 offices worldwide.
Chronos Consulting’s client is a multinational providing logistics, reactive containment and quality inspection solutions for the heavy transportation sector. We are seeking a General Manager USA to manage and oversee all aspects of Operations, Sales and Business Development, HR, and Quality functions. Experienced in managing a service organization with 300 – 500 employees, coupled with strong P&L skills. Home base role with extensive travel to office, warehouses, plants customer sites.
The Role:
Reporting to the Vice President, Americas, you will be responsible for:
Ensuring the correct resources are in place to execute existing and new business opportunities, and creating and managing the organizational structure
Supporting sites across the Midwest USA with extra-ordinary situations; events related to volume fluctuations, new projects and/or customer needs/changes among others.
Setting targets and direction for sales in financial and strategic customer and service diversification.
Advising and implementing measurable new projects, renewals, or projects outside of the company normal scope.
Advising on warehouse leases, both new and existing renewals.
Negotiating and approval of customer Master Service Agreements, NDA’s, and other documents.
Creating an annual budget and mid-year forecast and hands on P&L management with a proven track record in business management.
Advising on HR division structure, headcount, new roles and supporting recruiting, retention programs, potential legal and insurance matters.
Following-up with key customer contacts to ensure satisfaction and understand needs.
The Requirements:
Bachelor’s Degree with a minimum 10 + years of experience in operational or general management in construction equipment, agricultural equipment, powersports or on-highway truck industries.
Background in logistics and supply chain, technical background, engineering, project management or similar.
Ability to bounce between high level executive strategy development and supporting an individual site to solve a specific technical or resource related challenge.
Establish credibility, a solution provider and an entrepreneurial spirit to deliver business results.
Travel availability as need to visit and support sites across Midwest USA