Regional Branch Manager, Mid-Atlantic
COMPANY:
Private equity-backed specialty provider of inspection, maintenance, and repair services to industrial customers across the United States and Canada.
REPORTS/RELATIONSHIPS:
This position will report directly to the Regional President and lead a team of regional operations, engineering, service, and sales professionals.
BASIC FUNCTIONS:
The Regional Branch Manager, Mid-Atlantic provides strategic and operational leadership for multiple branch locations across the Mid-Atlantic region of the US, with a strong focus on driving operational and commercial success. This role ensures profitable growth, operational excellence, and integration across multiple brands and lines of business. As the company expands through organic growth and ongoing acquisitions, the Regional Branch Manager plays a key role in ensuring a smooth transition of new businesses into the regional structure while maintaining a consistent, high-performing culture.
Key responsibilities will include, but not necessarily be limited to:
Operational and Branch Management
- Lead and support operations and service managers and leaders to meet financial, operational, and safety performance targets.
- Ensure consistency and alignment of processes, policies, and brand standards across all branch locations.
- Monitor and analyze branch performance metrics, proactively addressing issues and driving continuous improvement.
- Oversee workforce planning, staffing, and talent development to support current operations and future growth.
Commercial Leadership
- Develop and execute regional sales and commercial strategies that align with corporate goals and deliver sustainable growth.
- Drive market share expansion across all brands and customer segments.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with key customers, industry partners, and stakeholders.
- Identify new business opportunities, including cross-selling between brands and service lines.
Integration and Growth
- Champion change management initiatives to ensure successful cultural and operational integration.
- Identify synergies and best practices across branches and brands to maximize efficiency and value.
People Leadership
- Provide strong, visible leadership to branch leaders and their teams; foster a positive, accountable, and safety-first culture.
- Develop and mentor high-potential talent for future leadership roles within the organization.
- Promote collaboration and knowledge sharing across the region.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 8+ years of progressive leadership experience in branch operations, operational management, or multi-site management within a service-based or industrial sector.
- Proven track record of driving commercial growth and profitability.
- Experience managing multiple brands or business units is strongly preferred.
- Familiarity with leading through organizational change.
- Strong financial acumen, analytical skills, and ability to use data to drive decisions.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to travel regionally as needed.
- Private equity experience is strongly preferred.
- Strong strategic and operational mindset.
- Operational excellence and process discipline.
- Change management and integration experience.
- Collaborative leadership style with a hands-on approach.
- Strong customer focus and a relationship builder.
- Results driven and resilient.
COMPENSATION:
Compensation will be commensurate with experience including a competitive base salary, bonus opportunity, and competitive benefits package.
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Jonas Hedin
Managing Partner
jhedin@CLCBsearch.com
704.377.0362