General Manager

TeleWorld Solutions Inc

• $120K — $180K *
US-Anywhere
+ 2 other locationsRemote
Telecommunications & Hardware
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 12+ years in data center infrastructure and technical field services.
  • Proven track record of over $10M annual sales and P&L management.
  • 5+ years leading customer-facing deployment programs or sales efforts.
  • Demonstrated experience achieving revenue and business growth objectives.
  • Strong financial acumen: P&L management, gross margin, and forecasting.
  • Ability to cultivate customer relationships and win new business.
  • Hands-on experience in building and scaling operational structures.

Responsibilities

  • Own and drive all sales activities across the business unit.
  • Create annual revenue and pipeline plans with execution timelines.
  • Identify and pursue new business opportunities in data center and fiber markets.
  • Build and maintain a qualified sales pipeline to meet growth targets.
  • Lead customer presentations and contract negotiations effectively.
  • Develop and enhance relationships with strategic decision-makers across major accounts.
  • Assess and refine existing delivery operations for greater profitability.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to shape and build a growing business.
  • Access to a network of leading technology and infrastructure partners.
  • Key leadership role in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
  • Potential for career advancement to senior leadership positions.
  • Culture focused on accountability, growth, and customer success.
Full Job Description
Overview

TeleWorld Solutions (TWS) is seeking a results-oriented General Manager to build and scale a strategic infrastructure services business focused on data center deployment, fiber ISP/OSP, wireless/network rollout programs, and related technical services.

This roleis responsible fordeveloping new revenue streams, expanding strategic customer relationships, owning sales execution,establishingscalable delivery capabilities, and driving profitable growth. The business is in growth-building mode, so success requires a practical builder who can create momentum quickly while putting the right operating structure in place.

This position is well-suited for a proven Director, Senior Director, or emerging VP who hasdemonstratedhandson sales in these areas,business development, deployment leadership, and operational execution experience, and is ready to take broader responsibility for growth, P&L performance, customer relationships, andteam-buildingand get into senior leadership role for the company.

Mandate & Business Scope

  • Own sales, revenue growth, gross margin, operational delivery, customer success, and profitability for the Data Center, Fiber & Deployment Services business.
  • Build new revenue in hyperscale, colocation, enterprise, GC-led data center programs, fiber infrastructure, and wireless/network deployment markets.
  • Assess current capabilities and define what needs to be built internally versus supported through strategic partners, subcontractors, or specialized delivery resources.
  • Create a repeatable sales-to-delivery model, including pursuit governance, pricing discipline, delivery readiness, resource planning, and margin accountability.
  • Develop the staffing and deliveryteamroadmap as the business scales, including program management, field delivery, deployment management, QA/QC, recruiting, and customer success capabilities.
Responsibilities

Sales Ownership & Revenue Growth

  • Own and personally lead all sales activities for this business area; there is not a separate sales leadership team responsible for this market.
  • Develop annual revenue, bookings, account penetration, and pipeline plans with clear weekly/monthly execution cadence.
  • Identify, qualify, pursue, negotiate, and close new business opportunities across data centers,hyperscalers, colocation providers, data center general contractors, fiber providers, wireless operators, and enterprise infrastructure customers.
  • Build a qualified pipeline sufficient to support growthobjectives, with disciplined CRM hygiene, forecasting accuracy, and pursuit prioritization.
  • Lead customer presentations, pricing strategy, contract negotiations, proposal response, executive briefings, and strategic account development.

Required Strategic Relationships

  • Bring established relationships and credibility withHyperscalers, cloud providers, data center operators, colocation providers, data center general contractors, fiber providers, or large infrastructure deployment customers.
  • Develop and expand relationships with decision-makers atHyperscalerand cloud accounts such as AWS, Microsoft, Google, Meta, Oracle, and related ecosystem partners.
  • Develop business through data center operators and colocation providers such as QTS, Equinix, Digital Realty, CoreSite, Vantage, CyrusOne,DataBank,Flexential, and similar platforms.
  • Build opportunities with data center general contractors and construction partners such as DPR, Turner, Whiting-Turner, Holder, HITT, JE Dunn, Structure Tone, Black & Veatch, Jacobs, AECOM, and similar mission-critical construction firms.
  • Leverage relationships within fiber and network infrastructure providers such as Zayo, Lumen, Crown Castle Fiber, regional fiber operators, wireless carriers, OEMs, and system integrators.

Operational & Delivery Leadership

  • Assess the existing delivery model anddeterminethe capabilities, leadership, field resources, subcontractor ecosystem, tools, and processesrequiredto support profitable growth.
  • Build delivery teams and scalable operating processes as revenue develops, including program managers, deployment managers, field supervisors, technicians, QA/QC resources, and partner/subcontractor capacity.
  • Lead delivery execution across data centerbuild-outs, structured cabling, rack & stack, integration/commissioning, fiber ISP/OSP programs, wireless network rollouts, technology upgrades, and multi-market deployment programs.
  • Ensure projects are delivered safely, on schedule, within budget, and at target gross margin.
  • Establish delivery governance including kickoff readiness, resource planning, project controls, change order discipline, risk management, customer reporting, and margin reviews.

Financial Management & P&L Accountability

  • Own revenue, bookings, gross margin, profitability, backlog,utilization, and forecast accuracy for the business.
  • Develop business plans, annual operating plans, quarterly forecasts, pricing discipline, and margin improvement initiatives.
  • Use financial and operational dashboards to manage performance and communicate results to the COO and executive leadership.
  • Improve project profitability through stronger estimating, delivery discipline, cost control, change order capture, and resource optimization.

Team Building & Leadership

  • Build a high-accountability culture focused on revenue growth, customer trust, operational execution, profitability, safety, and quality.
  • Recruit, develop, andretainkey leaders and delivery resources as the business scales.
  • Serve as the executive escalation point for strategic customers, complex pursuits, and critical delivery issues.
  • Create a practical organization design that can support growth without overbuilding ahead of revenue.
Qualifications

Required Qualifications

  • 12+ years of progressively responsible experience in data center infrastructure, fiber deployment, wireless network deployment, infrastructure services, or technical field services.
  • Strong direct selling experience and contacts in data centerwhite space and other services, withat least $10M in annual salesPO year over yearand PNL management experience.
  • 5+ years leading customer-facing delivery teams, deployment programs, sales/business development efforts, or infrastructure services operations.
  • Demonstrated experience owning revenue targets, customer development, and/or business growthobjectives.
  • Strong understanding of P&L management, gross margin performance, forecasting, resource planning, pricing discipline, and operational controls.
  • Proven ability to build customer relationships, createpipeline, win new business, and deliver programs profitably.
  • Experience leading large-scale deployment programs, multi-market rollouts, or complex infrastructure delivery engagements.
  • Ability tooperatein a hands-on, builder-oriented environment with limited structure and create the structure needed to scale.

Preferred Experience

  • Data center deployment services, hyperscale programs, colocation environments, or mission-critical infrastructure services.
  • Fiber ISP/OSP construction, structured cabling, dark fiber, transport, Ethernet, or cloud connectivity programs.
  • Wireless network buildouts, 4G/5G rollouts, small cell, DAS, macro site deployment, network modernization, or technology upgrade programs.
  • Program management leadership for large multi-market deployment programs.
  • Experience selling into or partnering withHyperscalers, data center operators, data center general contractors, fiber providers, carriers, OEMs, or enterprise infrastructure customers.
  • Experience building delivery teams, subcontractor ecosystems, field resource models, or technical staffing capabilities.

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