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Position Details:
Title: Leadership Development Program (LDP)
Location:
Anywhere near 200 locations nationally. During the training period (first 52-54 weeks), you will rotate across typically 7 business locations (7 weeks at each site, you will be able to select your top 3 locations of 7 for this program). You MUST be geographically flexible and open to relocating throughout the LDP.
Upon completion of the LDP program, you will be permanently placed in a leadership position typically in one of the business units in which you did a rotation or one that best suits your development, growth, and Company’s business. Obviously, many factors come into play regarding location of your permanent placement (including your personal preference). With 200+ branches and corporate locations around the country, you will find that opportunities are numerous enough such that you will not have a hard time making a location work for you.
If selected, before your interview you are encouraged to jump on company website to look at their leaders, businesses, and locations so you can become familiar with their company and operating businesses that align with your top 3 locational preferences and desires. During the LDP you will have the opportunity to “test out” various operating companies, and vice versa. It’s almost like a year-long evaluation both-ways on your path to go get what opportunity you want that matches up with your desires and what Company needs.
Shift: This role is a Salary exempt role, so standard normal day working hours Monday – Friday.
Compensation: First year overall compensation package of $115K, 2nd year overall compensation of $115-130K First year break down of compensation includes: $80K base first year + annual bonus profitability (historically 5-8% payout) + $15K placement bonus upon graduation + cost of living including meals, travel, lodging all paid during program (exception if rotating closer to home). Upon completion of program your base salary will increase to $85K -$110K based on location, branch, cost of living, position and placement, along with your bonus payout increase anywhere from 15-35%.
Career Progression: Upon completion of the training program, you will typically be placed into roles such as Service/Branch Manager, Program Manager, Operations Manager, Sales Manager, etc. As a graduate of the LDP, you will be continuously mentored and given the opportunities to move vertically into more senior/executive level roles (VP, President, etc.). Promotion is based on performance (not “time in rank”) and can be very rapid for top performers!
Benefits: The primary benefit of this position is the unique opportunity for you to be immersed in a relatively low-stress, educational leadership devilment environment for your first year. Company also offers strong medical/dental/vision packages, 401K, 15 days PTO with 9 paid holidays, life insurance and an Employee Stock Option Program (ESOP).
Travel: Varies widely depending on selected rotations. You obviously will travel very extensively during the first year (during the training rotations). To minimize potential impact on your family life, Company will work with you and tailor your rotation locations such that at least one is near your home. For those rotations out of the area, you will be flown home typically every other weekend.
Position Description:
This is a CEO-directed Corporate Leadership Development Program that serves as the mechanism to provide the required development to prepare leaders to serve Company in the long term in some of the most needed and critical positions. Candidates who are selected and enter this program are expected to become future Presidents and VPs within the organization. Few other LDPs can honestly make that claim. The training program lasts approximately 12 months, during which time you will spend rotations at 3 separate businesses within Company to expose you to the business, teach you their processes, help you understand their culture and customers, and generally get to know selected individual subsidiaries for growth and development. Prior to the LDP you will pick 3-5 locations where you’d like to rotate and Company will work with you on the ones best suited for your development and their business. During your orientation, you will sit down with the Leadership Development Team and fully map out your training program, to include businesses, locations, mentors, etc. While on the rotations you will be assigned a senior-level mentor (typically a President or VP) and function in purely a training capacity, where your only responsibility outside of absorbing information will be to complete various short-term, business-specific projects. Every action should be executed with the premise in mind that you are there to be developed for leadership within Company. Upon completion of the training program, you will sit down with the CEO and decide what your first assignment will be and where, likely but not exclusively within one of the businesses with which you did a rotation, in a position of leadership (Service Manager, Branch Manager, Operations Manager, Project Managers, Sales, etc.) with a clear career opportunity track. Company has 200+ offices and branches throughout the US and you will be given the opportunity to go where you and the company feel is good for you professionally, but also where you want to go for personal reasons as well.
Requirements:
Company wants candidates who have a demonstrated passion (and knack) for leadership success in dynamic, complex, and very challenging environments. They want visionaries who have a plan to succeed and become executive-level leaders. Candidates with strong interpersonal, team building, and relationship development skills are ideal (former collegiate-level athletes have had tremendous success at Company). You must be hard-working, demonstrate critical thinking ability and embrace challenges. And you must be eager to learn their safety, specialty, and industrial business with location and travel flexibility (at least during the first year).
