VP Strategic Operations – Transformation

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🔥 14 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $200k - $225k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧐 Strategy

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SavATree

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1985

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🏛️ Government

Consulting • Logistics • Government

SavATree is a licensed and accredited tree, shrub and lawn care company that provides residential, commercial, and municipal landscape stewardship and maintenance. The company offers services including tree pruning, cabling and bracing, removal, stump grinding, fertilization, disease and pest treatments (including organic options), lawn care (aeration, seeding, fertilization), irrigation service, deer deterrent programs, tick and insect control, holiday lighting, emergency storm response, and professional consulting from ISA-certified arborists for risk assessments, appraisals, and urban-forest planning. SavATree emphasizes science-based diagnosis, environmental stewardship, and personalized service across local branches.

📋 Description

• Lead enterprise efforts to identify, quantify, and execute opportunities to improve operational performance across SavATree's markets and service lines • Develop enterprise frameworks for evaluating operational performance across markets, branches, and service lines • Lead development of an enterprise labor and workforce model connecting demand, service mix, seasonality, capacity, staffing, productivity, utilization, scheduling, and labor cost • Develop workforce-planning, capacity-modeling, crew-design, routing-strategy, scheduling-optimization, labor-productivity, technician-utilization, and service-delivery-economics analyses • Partner with the COO, President, Regional VPs, District Managers, Market Leaders, Finance, Data & Analytics, HR, and other functional leaders • Build models and business cases to inform staffing, capacity, process, investment, and resource-deployment decisions • Support annual operating planning through analysis of volume, pricing, labor, materials, productivity, and capacity requirements • Lead high-impact, cross-functional initiatives from problem identification and analysis through implementation and sustained adoption • Build and embed a continuous-improvement culture and scalable best practices across branches, districts, and regions • Own and evolve business standard work, including Lean principles, Daily Management, Leader Standard Work, and Monthly and Quarterly Operating Reviews • Create visibility and accountability through structured reporting, governance, KPIs, and initiative ownership • Apply structured problem-solving and root-cause analysis • Analyze operational and financial performance to identify profitable-growth and efficiency opportunities • Develop scenario analyses, business cases, ROI assessments, and financially grounded recommendations • Lead enterprise transformation initiatives through business-case development, pilot design, implementation, measurement, and scale • Partner with IT and Data & Analytics on routing, scheduling, forecasting, mobile execution tools, AI-enabled workforce optimization, and operational analytics • Lead shared-services, specialization/centralization, cost-reduction, productivity, and operating-model initiatives • Manage cross-functional dependencies, risks, rollout strategies, communication, training, measurement, and resistance • Define KPIs and leadership scorecards and develop executive-level reporting and recommendations • Serve as a strategic partner to the COO and executive leadership • Lead and develop team members supporting continuous improvement and related operational initiatives

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive experience in operations strategy, workforce/labor analytics, operational excellence, continuous improvement, strategic finance, business transformation, or related disciplines • Demonstrated experience developing analytical models or frameworks used to improve operational performance • Experience with labor productivity, workforce planning, capacity planning, staffing, utilization, forecasting, scheduling optimization, or related workforce economics • Proven ability to analyze complex operational and financial data, identify root causes and opportunities, and translate findings into actionable business recommendations • Strong financial acumen, including experience developing business cases, scenario analyses, ROI assessments, or financially grounded recommendations • Proven track record leading large-scale, cross-functional initiatives from concept and analysis through implementation, measurement, and sustained adoption • Experience working within a large, distributed, multi-location, or labor-intensive organization • Demonstrated ability to communicate complex analysis clearly to executive leadership and influence decisions across a decentralized organization • Bachelor's degree required • Preferred: experience in distributed field-service, route-based, retail, healthcare services, logistics, hospitality, facilities services, home services, or similarly labor-intensive operating environments • Preferred: experience within a private equity-backed, acquisitive, or high-growth organization • Preferred: familiarity with Lean, Six Sigma, or similar continuous-improvement methodologies • Preferred: experience with business intelligence, visualization, and analytical tools • Preferred: experience developing or implementing enterprise labor/workforce models • Preferred: MBA or other relevant advanced degree

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual Bonus • Equity • 25% travel • Full-Time / Permanent / Exempt status