Chief Strategy Officer

Hunt Electric · Eagan, MN · 1 wk ago

On-siteMarketing$325k–$384k/yrFull-time

About the Role

Join Hunt Electric at a pivotal moment in our company's history as we transition to a holding company structure, expand manufacturing capabilities, pursue strategic acquisitions, and deepen our presence in construction markets. As Chief Strategy Officer, you will build the enterprise growth engine shaping Hunt's next generation. This role leads growth functions, sets market and customer direction, guides business development, estimating, marketing, and strategic planning to build a healthy future backlog aligned with Hunt’s capabilities and long-term objectives.

The CSO partners closely with the President to ensure growth decisions reflect Hunt's operational capacity, leadership capability, and strategic direction, balancing future opportunities with execution excellence. Working with the CEO, President, and operating leaders, you will help Hunt pursue the right work, develop next-generation leaders, and create lasting opportunities for employee-owners. This role sits on Hunt's executive leadership team, contributing to enterprise direction, leadership development, and long-term organizational capability.

We seek someone with experience leading growth strategy in construction, industrial services, engineering, manufacturing, mission-critical infrastructure, or complex B2B organizations where execution capability is central to success. At Hunt, leadership competencies—developing others, clear communication, delivering results, empowering teams, and leading with integrity—are as important as accomplishments.

Responsibilities

Lead Hunt’s growth strategy by defining target markets, geographies, customer profiles, and vertical priorities aligned with Hunt’s long-term direction, capabilities, and culture.
Oversee business development, estimating, marketing, strategic pursuits, and market intelligence functions.
Develop and maintain Hunt’s strategic business plan for growth, including the annual operating plan, multi-year growth plan, quarterly updates, measurable priorities, and accountable deliverables in collaboration with the President.
Build and maintain strategic account plans for priority customers and sectors, including executive relationships, relationship maps, touchpoints, and future opportunities.
Own the market and customer strategy guiding what work Hunt pursues, who it serves, where it chooses not to compete, and new potential markets.
Set and maintain pursuit qualification standards, market selection discipline, and go/no-go expectations to ensure Hunt pursues work it can execute at a high level.
Work in a standing operating cadence with the President to review capacity, labor availability, leadership bandwidth, delivery risk, backlog quality, and pursuit priorities before commitments are made.
Escalate unresolved conflicts between growth priorities and delivery capacity to the CEO with clear options, tradeoffs, and recommendations.
Lead estimating standards, bid review discipline, scope clarity, assumption control, win/loss learning, and estimate accuracy improvement.
Direct marketing and positioning priorities supporting strategic pursuits, recruiting visibility, customer trust, and protection of the Hunt reputation.
Maintain current market intelligence on customers, competitors, industry conditions, emerging opportunities, and risks affecting Hunt’s future work.
Maintain Hunt’s “How Hunt Wins” market doctrine with the CEO and President, including target markets, customer profiles, no-chase conditions, delivery posture, and priority growth opportunities.
Manage a balanced backlog by monitoring customer concentration, market mix, delivery complexity, commercial risk, capacity fit, and margin quality.
Maintain working relationships with ECSI and EH Manufacturing to leverage integrated solutions, modularization, or prefabrication for improved customer outcomes.
Lead clean handoffs of awarded work from growth functions to project delivery and operations, ensuring key pursuit assumptions, risks, capacity requirements, and customer commitments are documented and understood.
Develop leaders within business development, estimating, and marketing by identifying next-generation talent, creating development opportunities, and building succession depth.
Model Hunt’s Core Purpose—Connecting People with Opportunity—and Core Values: Honor Commitments, Set the Pace, Find a Way, and Better Together.
Make decisions with a long-term employee-owner mindset, pursuing growth that strengthens Hunt, creates meaningful opportunity, and protects the ESOP for future generations.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in business, construction management, engineering, finance, marketing, or a related field; equivalent executive leadership experience will be considered.
Executive leadership experience in strategy, business development, estimating, growth, marketing, or a related commercial leadership function.
Construction or adjacent industry experience with the ability to understand delivery constraints and labor realities.
Demonstrated ability to develop market strategy, customer strategy, growth plans, and disciplined pursuit processes.

Physical Requirements

Operates in a professional construction office environment and may periodically visit industrial job sites with conditions including moving mechanical parts, vibration, noise, and required personal protective equipment (closed-toe shoes, hard hat, eye protection).
Routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, filing cabinets, and photocopiers.
Generally sedentary; frequently required to sit and occasionally to kneel, reach, stoop, crouch, or crawl.
Ability to lift files, open file cabinets, and bend or stand as necessary; may occasionally lift up to 25 pounds.
Works in a demanding, fast-paced, people-oriented construction environment with frequent changes, interruptions, and multiple project assignments.

Benefits

100% Paid Premiums: Medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums are 100% employer-paid for you and your family, plus a cash benefit if you opt out.
Three Pillars of Retirement: 401(k) match, profit sharing, and an ESOP that makes you an employee-owner.
Annual Discretionary Bonus: Based on company performance and individual contributions.
Work-Life Balance: 3+ weeks PTO to start, paid holidays, sick time, and flexible hybrid schedules for many positions.
Growth & Community: Internal learning and development, multiple Employee Resource Groups, family-friendly work events, and a deep commitment to community volunteering.

Learn more about our benefits and culture: Hunt Electric Careers. Watch our Beyond the Breaker podcast to learn about what Hunt Electric is up to.

Pay

$325,000.00 - $384,000.00 annual salary. Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. This posting reflects base salary only; Hunt Electric offers a robust benefits plan.