15000 Valmont Plaza Omaha Nebraska 68154
Job Summary: The Vice President & General Manager (VP/GM), North America Telecom is the senior leader accountable for the overall performance, growth strategy, and profitability of Valmont's North America Telecom business segment. This role has full P&L ownership and provides integrated leadership across sales, product line management, operations, engineering, and marketing.
As a member of the Infrastructure senior leadership team, the VP/GM will establish and execute the regional strategy aligned with Infrastructure objectives, drive disciplined operating performance, and build scalable organizational capabilities to support sustainable growth. The role balances strategic market leadership with hands-on operational execution, ensuring strong customer alignment, financial rigor, and organizational effectiveness across the Telecom market.
Essential Functions/Duties:- Own full profit and loss responsibility for the North America Telecom business, including revenue growth, gross margin, operating income, working capital, and return on invested capital.
- Develop and execute the strategy and annual operating plan, aligned with Telecom division objectives.
- Lead monthly business reviews with a strong focus on performance management, initiative execution, forecasting accuracy, and corrective actions.
- Ensure adherence to Valmont governance, compliance, safety, and risk management standards across all Telecom operations.
- Lead sales and commercial strategy, ensuring strong customer engagement, disciplined pipeline management, and sustainable market share growth.
- Drive go-to-market strategies by segment and geography, incorporating pricing, channel strategy, customer value propositions, and competitive positioning.
- Maintain senior-level relationships with key customers, partners, and influencers across the region.
- Provide market intelligence and competitive insights to inform product strategy, capacity planning, and investment decisions.
- Provide strategic oversight of product line management, including portfolio strategy, lifecycle management, new product introductions, and localization for Telecom market needs.
- Translate voice-of-customer, market requirements, and competitive insights into clear product and engineering priorities.
- Partner with engineering to balance performance, cost, manufacturability, and time-to-market considerations.
- Ensure disciplined product gating, business case justification, and return-on-investment analysis.
- Lead regional manufacturing, operations, and supply chain performance with a focus on safety, quality, delivery, cost, and productivity.
- Ensure operational capacity and footprint are aligned with current and future market demand.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives across operations using lean, value engineering, and process optimization principles.
- Collaborate with global supply chain teams on sourcing strategies, inventory management, and risk mitigation.
- Partner closely with Finance to drive robust financial planning, forecasting, and analysis.
- Ensure strong capital discipline across capex, working capital, and inventory.
- Provide clear, data-driven performance reporting and insights to the President of Infrastructure and executive leadership.
- Build and lead a high-performing regional leadership team, fostering accountability, collaboration, and succession readiness.
- Champion talent development, leadership capability building, and organizational effectiveness across the region.
- Promote a culture of safety, integrity, inclusion, and performance consistent with Valmont values.
- Approximately 30% travel required.
Basic Qualifications:- Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, or a related field, or 15+ years of relevant experience.
- 15+ years of progressive leadership experience in industrial, infrastructure, telecom, energy, utility, or related sectors.
- Demonstrated success in a General Manager, Business Unit Leader, or equivalent role with P&L ownership.
- Strong commercial acumen with experience leading sales, marketing, and customer-facing organizations.
- Demonstrated financial acumen, including forecasting, margin management, and capital allocation.
- Ability to clearly communicate complex strategies and performance insights to executive-level stakeholders.
Preferred Qualifications:- Domain expertise in the Telecom industry.
- MBA or advanced technical degree.
- Experience in infrastructure products, engineered solutions, or project-based manufacturing.
- Prior leadership in matrixed, global organizations.
BenefitsValmont offers employees and their families a comprehensive Total Wellbeing benefit package to ensure their individual and family's overall wellness needs are met. Some offerings are dependent upon the role, work schedule, or location and can include the following:
- Healthcare (medical, prescription drugs, dental and vision)
- 401k retirement plan with company match
- Paid time off
- Employer paid life insurance
- Employer paid short-term and long-term disability including maternity leave
- Work Life Support
- Tuition Reimbursement up to $5,250 per year
- Voluntary programs like tobacco cessation, Type 2 diabetes reversal, one-on-one health coaching, mortgage services and more
