Regional Senior Director, Strategy and Planning

Description

Job Title: Regional Senior Director, Strategy and Planning (West Region)
Reports To: Regional Vice President, (West Region)
Location: Remote West Region
Employment Status: Salary (Exempt)

Duties/Responsibilities

• Partner with the VP to develop and maintain the West region’s integrated project execution plan, ensuring alignment of scope, schedule, milestones, and deliverables across all active programs.
• Monitor project progress against contractual commitments and internal performance targets; identify schedule risks, scope gaps, or execution deficiencies and drive timely corrective action.
• Establish and maintain project status reporting cadences, dashboards, and KPIs that provide the VP and senior leadership with clear, accurate visibility into project health across the regional portfolio.
• Cook up with project managers, field superintendents, and construction teams to resolve execution roadblocks, sequence workflows, and maintain delivery momentum.
• Support pre-construction planning efforts, including project kickoff readiness reviews, constructability assessments, and mobilization planning to ensure projects launch on time and fully resourced.
• Lead post-project reviews and lessons-learned processes to capture execution insights and drive continuous improvement across the regional portfolio.
• Oversee workforce planning and resource readiness for the West region, ensuring that field crews, subcontractors, and support personnel are appropriately staged and mobilized ahead of project needs.
• Collaborate with people services and operations leadership to anticipate hiring needs, address labor gaps, and maintain a qualified, available workforce aligned to the regional project pipeline.
• Manage subcontractor and vendor relationships, ensuring timely mobilization, performance accountability, and alignment with project scope, schedule, and quality expectations.
• Develop and maintain resource forecasting tools and capacity planning models to support proactive staffing decisions and avoid resource-driven schedule impacts.
• Champion a culture of safety-first leadership across the West region, ensuring that all project execution activities comply with Congruex safety standards, OSHA regulations, and client-specific safety requirements.
• Partner with the regional safety team to monitor safety performance metrics, conduct field safety audits, and ensure timely incident reporting, investigation, and corrective action.
• Integrate safety planning into all phases of project execution—from pre-construction safety reviews through field execution and closeout—ensuring zero-tolerance accountability for unsafe conditions or behaviors.
• Ensure that all project personnel, subcontractors, and field crews are properly trained, certified, and equipped to perform work safely and in compliance with applicable requirements.
• Review and act on safety trend data, near-miss reports, and incident analyses to identify systemic risks and implement preventative measures across the project portfolio.
• Support the VP in managing the West region’s financial performance, with direct accountability for monitoring revenue recognition, cost control, margin performance, and budget adherence across the project portfolio.
• Develop and maintain project-level and regional financial forecasts, tracking revenue versus cost at both the program and portfolio level to identify variances and drive corrective action.
• Partner with project managers and finance teams to ensure accurate job costing, timely billing, change order management, and contract compliance across all active projects.
• Identify and escalate cost overruns, billing delays, or margin erosion risks to the VP and finance leadership, with recommended mitigation strategies and recovery plans.
• Support the development of regional budgets, bid reviews, and financial proposals, ensuring that cost models reflect realistic field execution assumptions and appropriate margin targets.
• Drive accountability for revenue realization by ensuring that work-in-place is accurately captured, invoiced promptly, and that receivables are actively managed in coordination with the finance team.

Required Skills/Abilities

• Strong project execution and program management skills, with demonstrated ability to manage large, complex infrastructure or telecom project portfolios from planning through closeout.
• Deep understanding of resource planning, workforce deployment, and subcontractor management in a field-based construction or infrastructure environment.
• Proven commitment to safety leadership, with experience implementing safety programs, conducting field audits, and driving a safety-first culture across distributed field teams.
• Strong financial acumen, including expertise in job costing, revenue recognition, cost-to-complete analysis, variance management, and margin improvement.
• Ability to read and interpret project contracts, change orders, and financial reports to assess risk and drive informed operational and financial decisions.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to synthesize complex project and financial data into clear, actionable insights for senior leadership.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build trust and accountability across field teams, project managers, subcontractors, clients, and corporate functions.
• Experience developing and maintaining project reporting tools, dashboards, and KPI frameworks that support executive-level visibility and decision-making.
• Proficiency with project management systems, ERP/financial platforms, and business intelligence or reporting tools.
• Ability to manage multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced, high-growth environment while maintaining rigor and attention to detail.
• Knowledge of telecom infrastructure construction, including OSP, fiber deployment, or wireless construction preferred.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Business Administration, Finance, or a related field (Master’s preferred).
• 10+ years of progressive experience in project management, operations, or construction management within the telecom or infrastructure industry.
• 5+ years in a senior leadership role with direct responsibility for project financial performance, resource planning, and safety oversight.
• Formal project management certification (PMP or equivalent) preferred.
• Prior experience supporting a regional VP or executive in a strategy, planning, or operations capacity preferred.

Physical Requirements

• Hybrid work environment with a combination of corporate office responsibilities and regular on-site project and field visits across the West region.
• Significant travel required to project sites, client locations, vendor offices, and regional operations centers throughout the West.
• May require walking across active construction or infrastructure sites and exposure to outdoor environments and variable weather conditions.
• Availability to work extended hours as necessary to support project milestones, financial reporting cycles, and VP-level commitments.