Location: United States, location flexible
Travel: 80%+
As a Principal within our Industrials & Manufacturing team, you will play a senior leadership role in growing our business and delivering transformational results for clients. You will build trusted C-suite relationships, grow strategic accounts, shape and close major consulting engagements, and lead complex transformation programs from the boardroom to the plant floor.
Our work spans industrial manufacturing, consumer goods, pharmaceuticals, and building products, helping clients improve safety, operational performance, productivity, reliability, and profitability.
Your ImpactGrow the Business- Own an annual sales target and build the pipeline to deliver against it.
- Develop trusted relationships with CEOs, COOs, and senior Operations and EHS leaders.
- Shape, price, and close large consulting engagements.
- Turn initial engagements into broader, multi-year client relationships.
- Grow strategic accounts by bringing the full breadth of dss+ capabilities to clients.
- Represent dss+ through industry networks, conferences, and thought leadership.
Lead the Work- Serve as the accountable executive on multiple transformation programs, owning client outcomes, commercial performance, and delivery quality.
- Lead complex situations including operational turnarounds, serious incidents, restructuring, and post-acquisition integration.
- Deliver measurable improvements across safety, EBITDA, throughput, quality, reliability, and productivity.
- Recruit, coach, and develop Managers and Senior Managers.
What You Bring- 15+ years of experience in management consulting and/or senior manufacturing leadership.
- Partner, Director, or equivalent consulting experience and/or significant P&L or plant leadership experience.
- Proven success personally selling and leading consulting engagements, with annual sales targets.
- An established C-suite and senior operations network within industrial manufacturing, consumer goods, pharmaceuticals, and/or building products.
- Experience leading large-scale safety, operational excellence, and performance transformations with measurable results.
- Turnaround, restructuring, and/or M&A integration experience.
- Strong knowledge of Operational Excellence, Lean/Six Sigma, safety management systems, and large-scale change.
- Strong executive presence with credibility in both the boardroom and on the plant floor.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Science, or a related field; MBA strongly preferred.
- Willingness to travel 80%+.
