Stord

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Job Description: • Hold operational accountability for acquired businesses by: • Holding full operational and P&L accountability immediately post-close through transition. • Stabilizing performance and maintaining continuity across service delivery, financial outcomes, and team execution. • Acting as the senior operating leader for acquired leadership teams until responsibilities transition. • Maintaining end-to-end accountability across all acquired businesses, ensuring no asset operates without clear ownership. • Set and run execution discipline by: • Setting and running operating rhythms, including weekly operating reviews, monthly performance reviews, and escalation forums. • Enforcing prioritization across initiatives to balance near-term performance, transition readiness, and longer-term value creation. • Maintaining consistent visibility into performance drivers, risks, and execution constraints across the portfolio. • Implementing organizational, leadership, or operating changes as required to ensure disciplined execution. • Champion cross-functional execution by: • Applying an operating lens to the Corporate Development team during diligence and pipeline evaluation, offering perspective on leadership capability, operating maturity, and near-term business stability. • Coordinating execution across operations, customer experience, technology, finance, and people functions within the acquired perimeter. • Aligning operating priorities with functional partners to prevent execution gaps during periods of change. • Serving as the primary escalation point for operational, customer, and execution issues across acquired businesses. • Support integration readiness in close partnership with M&A Integration by: • Working in close partnership with the M&A Integration team as integration activities are sequenced and executed. • Maintaining accountability for acquired leaders, processes, and operating models until handoff conditions are met. • Supporting integration readiness across operating models, leadership structures, and organizational transitions. • Delivering clear, fact-based updates to senior leadership on performance trends, risks, and transition readiness. Requirements: • 8+ years of experience in operations leadership within logistics, supply chain, fulfillment, transportation, or a similarly complex operating environment. • Demonstrated P&L ownership or direct financial accountability, including responsibility for operating performance, cost structure, margin management, and tradeoff decisions. • P&L ownership of a division or company generating more than $100M a year. • Proven ability to lead cross-functional execution, with accountability for outcomes across operations, account management, technology, and people functions. • Strong operating judgment and interpersonal instincts, with a proven ability to drive alignment, execution, and accountability. Benefits: • Health insurance • 401(k) matching • Flexible work arrangements • Professional development opportunities