President of Water Solutions (National Solutions Division)

Job ID:  504616

Exempt

Oldcastle Infrastructure™, a CRH company, is the leading provider of utility infrastructure solutions for the water, energy, and communications markets throughout North America. We’re more than just a manufacturer of precast concrete, polymer concrete, or plastic products. We’re a trusted and strategic partner to engineers, contractors, distributors, specifiers, and more. With our network of more than 80 manufacturing facilities and more than 4,000 employees, we’re leading the industry with innovation and a safety-first mindset.

Position Overview

The President of Water Solutions, reporting to the Division President, National Solutions, will provide leadership for the Water Solutions business unit in the Americas aligning resources to strategy, maximizing conditions for impact and scale, and enabling operating company leaders to drive forward successful strategies for impact and excellence.  This position will support a top performing safety culture, embrace commercial and operational excellence, drive the development of new opportunities, and build and develop effective teams across the business to achieve superior financial performance and growth.  The Water Solutions business unit currently generates approximately $700M in revenue and employs approximately 500 employees.

 Specifically, the individual will:

• Be accountable for the full P&L of the water management businesses in the Americas.
• Utilize creative and strategic agility to evaluate existing and emerging market and product opportunities.
• Develop strategy and roadmap for adjacency growth through M&A and innovation.
• Drive organic growth from solutions strategy execution and new market development.
• Utilize acquisitions to fill product gaps, expand market share and grow the addressable market – develop relationships with key acquisition targets, generate business cases and strategic rationales, execute due diligence efforts, and successfully integrate acquired businesses.
• Develop and successfully execute capital investment plans that add new growth opportunities and drive efficiencies.
• Assemble, inspire, and develop leaders and great teams within the business.
• Collaborate with other resources within CRH to expand potential solution selling opportunities.
• Drive a customer-oriented organization that deepens relationships and builds sales.
• Hold teams accountable to ensure desired profitability, efficiency and operational outcomes are achieved.
• Instill a high-performance safety culture.
• Create an environment that supports inclusion and diversity.

Key Competencies

• Enterprise Mindset – Considers the entire enterprise in decision making. Treats their organization as interconnected and interdependent parts of a cohesive structure with aligned goals.
• Builds Effective Teams – Building strong leadership teams that apply their diverse skills and perspectives to achieve common goals. Instills a “growth-mindset” culture.
• Instills Trust – Gaining the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity.
• Ensures Accountability – Holding staff and others accountable to meet commitments.
• Drives Results – Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
• Plans & Aligns – Planning and prioritizing work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals.
• Demonstrates Self-Awareness – Using a combination of feedback and reflection to gain productive insight into personal strengths and weaknesses.
• Learning Agility – Actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning opportunities.

Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive management/executive experience in water infrastructure or related industries
• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Engineering or related field
• MBA/eMBA preferred.
• Proven track record of leading operations and sales strategies to exceptionally high levels of safety, quality, and customer service performance
• Sales or marketing management experience or a track record of growing market share, introducing new products, entering new markets and/or performing M&A activities.
• Excellent analytical, financial and communication skills

What CRH Offers You

• Highly competitive base pay
• Comprehensive medical, dental and disability benefits programs
• Group retirement savings program
• Health and wellness programs
• A diverse and inclusive culture that values opportunity for growth, development, and internal promotion

About CRH

CRH has a long and proud heritage. We are a collection of hundreds of family businesses, regional companies and large enterprises that together form the CRH family. CRH operates in a decentralized, diversified structure that allows you to work in a small company environment while having the career opportunities of a large international organization.

If you’re up for a rewarding challenge, we invite you to take the first step and apply today! Once you click apply now, you will be brought to our official employment application. Please complete your online profile and it will be sent to the hiring manager. Our system allows you to view and track your status 24 hours a day. Thank you for your interest!

Oldcastle Infrastructure, a CRH Company, is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer.

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