VP East Operations - Pest Elimination

The Vice President of East Operations - Pest Elimination is the senior leader responsible for the east area's field operations teams. This position will set the strategic direction for operations activity within the East area and ensure achievement of East area's operational goals. The role will develop a team of AVP Regional Managers, and Regional Managers and oversee the development of Associate Regional Managers, Market Managers and Field Operations Managers to ensure that these teams maintain talent of the highest caliber, motivation, and skill. This role will maintain relationships with key customers and will be directly involved in high profile customer situations and opportunities. The East Ops VP will partner with sales leaders across Ecolab to drive selling to deliver results with key customers. This position is a critical member of the senior management team, reporting to the Vice President Pest Elimination North America.

What's in it For You

• The opportunity to take on some of the world's most meaningful challenges, helping customers achieve clean water, safe food, and healthy environments
• The ability to make an impact and shape your career with a company that is passionate about growth
• The support of an organization that believes it is vital to include and engage diverse people, perspectives and ideas to achieve our best

What You Will Do

• Lead, motivate, and develop a 1300-person Operations and Operations support team to meet or exceed the division's annual operations initiatives
• Set the strategic direction and facilitate the development of tactical plans to enable achievement of operational objectives.
• Establish excellent working relationships with the Vice President of Sales and other functional leaders focused on collaborative efforts to develop and execute business plans and to manage critical needs.
• Create and monitor critical objectives to identify and address individual and team performance levels.
• Oversee the development and implementation of appropriate operational processes, procedures, and support needed to increase individual and team effectiveness.
• Monitor competitive activity, communicate internally and develop appropriate plans of action to maintain market leading programs and position.
• Demonstrate deep industry knowledge. Support local and national Industry Relations events and associations.

Location Information

• The ideal candidate will reside in the Eastern US or St. Paul, MN

Position Details

This role will be responsible for a total $455M scope of business

Reports to the Vice President Operations- Pest Elimination North America

This position is accountable for direct management of:

• 5 AVP Regional Managers
• 1 Regional Managers

This position will also be accountable for indirect management of:

• 9 Associate Regional Managers
• 40 Market Managers
• ~120 Field Operations Managers
• ~1000 SVSP and Utility associates

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and Ecolab experience
• 10 years of related experience
• 5 years of management experience
• Functional ability to operate computer and computer applications

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong oral and written communications skills
• Strong leadership skills
• Sales process knowledge
• Solid collaboration and networking skills
• Excellent presentation skills
• Results-oriented, setting and pursuing aggressive goals, demonstrating a strong commitment to organizational success, and leveraging resources to accomplish his/her priorities
• Comfortable managing under pressure and ability to successfully multitask and prioritize

Division Boilerplate

Ecolab's Pest Elimination Division protects the health and safety of our customers, and our customers' customers, with industry leading science-based pest prevention solutions. Focused exclusively on commercial pest elimination, we bring cutting-edge innovation to diverse markets, sharing our expertise to help companies strengthen and protect their brand, enhance customer satisfaction, increase efficiency and implement more environmentally sustainable practices.

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