Posted: June 02, 2011

seeking a seasoned and dynamic Regional Vice President to launch our New Orleans market. This person will need to build strong relationships with staff, school partners, local advocates, and the communities we serve. With primary responsibility for building and leading a high performing team, driving business development, and managing community relationships for this region, the Regional Vice President will also have all profit and loss responsibility for the region. Reporting directly to the COO, the Regional Vice President is responsible for growing the market as well as ensuring that the financial goals are met and the internal operations are well run. This is an exciting opportunity for a mission-driven, entrepreneurial, and savvy organizational leader to launch a high visibility market in a fast paced and growth oriented enterprise.

RESPONSIBILITIES WILL INCLUDE:

School Partnerships and Business Development

? Supervise and work with the Manager of School Partnerships to lead the sales and business development efforts in the region.
? Set sales goals for the region, in partnership with the Executive Team, especially the Vice President of School Partnerships.
? Build and manage the team to ensure it attains sales and partnership goals.
Strategic Partnerships
? Represent Company Confidential in the public arena.
? Manage existing and cultivate new strategic partnerships critical to the success of the business. These partnerships include, but are not limited to, autonomous schools, school districts, educational partners, and healthy food companies.
? Engage and interact with policymakers and public sector entities.
? Serve as a key partner within Company Confidential to execute national pilot programs, create testing environments, participate in key initial rollouts, and support new market growth.

Financial Management

? Oversee regional financial management and performance.
? Set goals for region in partnership with the Chief Executive Officer, the Chief Financial Officer and Executive Team.
? Manage the local team to ensure it attains financial management and performance goals.
Operations
? Set up company’s first operations in the region. Comfort with early morning hours a must!
? Oversee operations with support from the Chief Operating Officer and the Director of Operations.
? Understand and model a strong partnership with the Director of Operations to achieve all operational results.
? With the Director of Operations, ensure that the meals produced and delivered to schools everyday are high quality, safe and consistent with Company Confidential's standards and that all operations and logistics are running in a smooth, safe and efficient manner.

Leading and Managing the Team

? Provide dynamic and inspirational leadership to ensure a high performing team.
? Recruit, hire and supervise (directly or indirectly) all staff.
? Model the appropriate blend of leadership, incentives, motivation, inspiration and training needed to lead and grow a world-class organization.
? Oversee management of the food production, packaging, expediting, delivery, purchasing, sanitation, sales and customer service areas of the local organization, in partnership with the Director of Operations and the Manager of School Relationships.

QUALIFICATIONS

? Prior experience within the K-12 education system & the education reform community is highly desired; demonstrated affinity and interest in the mission of Company Confidential through other roles or involvements required
? Demonstrated success in sales or fundraising for an entrepreneurial venture in either the private or nonprofit sector.
? Presence, personality and business skills to be a credible leader internally and externally.
? Proven track record of inspiring and leading teams to levels of high performance as a result of their leadership.
? Solid financial and analytical skills; experience holding bottom line profit and loss responsibility, budgeting and forecasting required.
? Entrepreneurial spirit and desire to be part of a growing fast paced environment where systems and processes are still being developed.
? Demonstrated ability to learn quickly and remain solutions-oriented with limited direction
? Strong sense of self-awareness, ability to be upfront and honest and a willingness to adjust strategies and approaches when needed to achieve the highest level of results.
? BA, BS, or equivalent college degree required; Master’s degree preferred.