Position Details:
Title: General Manager – Technical Value Recovery Facility
Location: Memphis, TN
Work Schedule: M-F
Compensation: $180k-$200k base salary (target), depending on experience, plus 30% bonus incentive, based on performance, and highly competitive and comprehensive benefits, including, Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance, HSA/FSA, 401(k) with company match, PTO and Holidays.
Position Description: Reporting to the COO, the GM will have full ownership of site performance, team development and customer delivery. This role is responsible for end-to-end site operations, including Program Management, Production, Engineering, Supply Chain, Quality, IT, HR, and Finance. You will set the direction for the site, build a high-performing leadership team, and drive measurable results in quality, productivity, and profitability.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own full site P&L, including forecasting, budgeting, and execution of financial plans to meet and exceed targets.
- Drive operational performance across all functions, ensuring alignment to customer expectations, internal KPIs, and business goals.
- Lead and develop the site leadership team, creating accountability, strong communication, and a performance-driven culture.
- Improve organizational effectiveness through process optimization, team development, and cross-functional collaboration.
- Ensure consistent delivery of quality, throughput, and service levels across all programs.
- Identify and implement process improvements that increase efficiency, reduce cost, and support scalability.
- Partner directly with customers, participating in operational reviews, QBRs, and commercial discussions as needed.
- Support business growth through strong customer relationships and identification of expansion opportunities.
- Maintain compliance with company policies, quality standards, and regulatory requirements.
- Manage day-to-day site operations, including goal setting, performance tracking, and execution of priorities.
- Resolve employee and operational challenges in a timely, professional manner.
Qualifications:
- Proven success leading large, complex operations with full P&L responsibility.
- Strong leadership presence with the ability to influence, motivate, and hold teams accountable.
- Demonstrated ability to drive results across production, supply chain, engineering, and quality.
- Experience in contract manufacturing, EMS, reverse logistics, or technical service environments.
- Ability to manage multiple programs, customers, and competing priorities.
- Strong financial acumen, including forecasting, budgeting, and cost management.
- Experience leading change and driving continuous improvement initiatives.
- Effective communicator with the ability to engage at all levels, including executive leadership and customers.
- Proven ability to build and develop high-performing teams.
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Operations, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
Jim Perdue • Director of Professional Search
619.742.7358 • jperdue@oriontalent.com
Company Description:
Reconext is a global provider of device lifecycle management, servicing customers across multiple segments, from wireless carriers to hardware OEMs. Originating from a small TV repair shop in Germany in 1983, the company has evolved through mergers and acquisition to become an industry leader in providing reverse logistic solutions to wireless and electronics customers worldwide. The company offers high-tech repair, remanufacturing, and reclamation capabilities through its global network of 22 facilities, with 4500 employees across 20 countries.
Reconext is disrupting the industry with their innovative, engineered approach to Device Lifecycle Extension. Traditional methods result in whole units being depopulated and sold off as lower-value components or simply sent straight to scrap. Opportunities to reconfigure or upgrade hardware are missed, and fair market value assessments often short-change the original asset owner.
Reconext is on a mission to tackle the enormous financial and environmental impact of these traditional methods, and change the industry forever. Their team has built a more modern, connected recovery model from the ground up, that gives hardware devices a second, third or fourth life! Their technical team works across domains - AI, Solid-State Physics, Chemistry, Materials Science, Optics, Electronics, RF, Firmware and Mechatronic Design - treating circularity as its own engineering discipline. Reconext has created an integrative science and innovative method that gives digital infrastructure investors the tools to fully unlock the value of their hardware assets while doing their business in a smarter, more sustainable way. See Precision Recovery.
Innovation at Reconext is about continuously capturing value from technological evolution that others miss. And Circularity isn't just something they sell to customers, it's literally how their engineering thinks - their systems loop back on themselves, learning from their own outputs and creating data streams from failure states.
Reconext delivers business continuity safeguards with measurable environmental impact for companies facing intensifying supply chain disruptions, increasingly stringent sustainability regulations and relentless cost pressures. Recovery rates often jump from 60% to 90-95%, thousands of tons of electronic waste avoid landfills, and components with decades of embedded carbon often find their next lives rather than requiring replacement.
Reconext believes that the impossible becomes possible when you stop using manufacturing tools to solve recovery problems...the future demands this innovation—a world where resources find new purpose rather than premature burial.
Why this opportunity?
Reconext is principle-guided organization with 7 core values: Value Stream = Customer Needs; Every Voice Drives Value; One Team, No Silos; Test Smart, Learn Fast; Raise the Bar; Speed Beats Perfection; The Planet Gets a Vote. They are a truly innovative company that is making a global impact, and as GM of their Memphis operation, you have an opportunity to take ownership in developing a high-performing team, solving strategic and tactical problems, leading improvement initiatives, scaling operations, and setting new standards of excellence in recovery facility performance and customer success.
The Memphis team is poised for growth, and they need a high-ownership, high-accountability, influential, agile, disciplined, engaging, results-driven, servant-leader who will drive change, develop a winning team and foster a culture of teamwork.
Jim Perdue • Director of Professional Search
619.742.7358 • jperdue@oriontalent.com