General Manager - Hauling HC

About the role

The General Manager leads one of the Company’s Business Units with full profit-and-loss responsibility for all operational facets. In a matrix-management setting, the role oversees an infrastructure team of division-level managers—Operations, Fleet Management, Sales, Finance, Human Resources, Safety and Environmental Compliance, and Environmental Engineering—who support the entire Business Unit. The General Manager executes a local-market strategy aligned with the Area’s strategic operating and marketing plans, implements tactical initiatives to drive functional excellence and budget achievement, and manages all aspects of collection and/or post-collections operations (transfer stations, landfills, recycling centers, and/or complexes). The position represents the Company to customers, vendors, municipal clients, and other external stakeholders; ensures effective safety and accident-prevention programs; and leads change-management initiatives that contribute to the Business Unit’s growth and durability.

Responsibilities

• Implement and execute plans that complement the Area’s strategic operating plan; champion the execution of the strategic plan and tactical initiatives within the Business Unit, including operating safely, enhancing customer experience, improving efficiency, and maximizing profitability.
• Collaborate with Area and Region sales management to drive commercial, industrial, residential, and municipal sales efforts within the Business Unit to achieve targeted growth objectives, exceed customer-experience expectations, and optimize profitability.
• Oversee effective safety and accident-prevention programs to ensure all reasonable actions are taken to prevent accidents and injuries; maintain a safe and productive work environment for all employees.
• Lead operations to ensure compliance with all standards, including environmental, operating, regulatory, safety, accounting, and ethics.
• Manage performance and talent development.
• Build and maintain strong, effective relations with relevant government, community, and environmental groups.
• Travel by air, car, and/or other modes up to 30% of the time.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned or apparent.

Requirements

• High school diploma or G.E.D.
• Minimum of 3 years of progressive leadership and management responsibility.
• Minimum of 3 years of P & L experience.

Qualifications

• Previous experience in the environmental services industry (preferred).
• Previous employment by a Fortune 500 company (preferred).
• Experience in labor relations (preferred).
• Minimum of 7 years of progressive leadership and management responsibility (preferred).

Skills

• Demonstrated business acumen, strategic thinking, and ability to execute against formulated strategy.
• Ability to lead large-scale change initiatives.
• Ability to direct a large staff of functional experts to execute corporate strategy.
• Ability to build strong sales teams: select best candidates, coach, and develop top talent.
• Process-oriented and results-oriented in setting and pursuing aggressive goals; strong commitment to organizational success and marshaling resources to accomplish goals and objectives.
• Problem-solving, analytical, critical-thinking, and decision-making skills.
• Ability to optimize near-term results that contribute to long-term sustainable success.
• Collaborative; builds and works with teams.
• Creative thinker who challenges conventional solutions.
• Demonstrates and promotes ethical behavior.
• Ability to manage an extended span of control, with multiple sites and multiple business lines (e.g., hauling, landfills, recycling, new business).

Benefits

Eligible employees can elect to participate in:

• Comprehensive medical benefits coverage, dental plans, and vision coverage.
• Health care and dependent care spending accounts.
• Short- and long-term disability.
• Life insurance and accidental death & dismemberment insurance.
• Employee and Family Assistance Program (EAP).
• Employee discount programs.
• Retirement plan with a generous company match.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP).
• Paid Time Off (PTO).

More details: Republic Services Benefits