Vice President of Operations Programs

Performance Contracting Group located in Lenexa, KS is seeking a Vice President of Operations Programs. In this role, you will sit at the center of how PCI scales, owning the strategy, structure, and performance of the programs that drive consistency, quality, and innovation across the enterprise.

This role exists to elevate critical operational functions; quality, labor strategy, purchasing, innovation, and leadership forums, to the highest level of the organization, ensuring they are intentional, aligned, and built for growth.

If you are a field-tested operator with the ability to think ahead of the business, influence without authority, and translate real-world insight into enterprise-wide impact, this is a rare opportunity to shape how a national organization operates.

What You'll Own

You are the enterprise owner of operations programs, setting direction, driving alignment, and ensuring results.

Key areas of accountability include:

• Operations Strategy & Foresight
  Anticipate what the field needs next. Turn insight into structured programs, priorities, and investments that keep the business ahead of demand.
• Quality & Performance Standards
  Establish and enforce consistent quality frameworks across all regions, ensuring measurable and visible outcomes.
• Labor Relations Strategy
  Lead enterprise-level labor strategy, union coordination, and field alignment in partnership with HR and Legal.
• Purchasing & Cost Discipline
  Set direction for vendor alignment, procurement standards, and cost consistency across the business.
• Innovation Pipeline
  Own the innovation ecosystem, ensuring ideas are evaluated, resourced, and successfully deployed into the field.
• Executive & Field Alignment
  Represent operations across key committees and leadership forums, ensuring priorities connect to execution.
• Leadership Events & Summits
  Drive high-impact operations summits and leadership events that create clarity, alignment, and momentum.

How You'll Lead

This role is built on credibility, relationships, and influence, requiring you to:

• Partner closely with Senior Vice Presidents to ensure programs reflect real field needs.
• Lead and develop Director-level leaders across multiple functions.
• Bring a strong, trusted voice to executive leadership conversations.
• Create clarity and accountability across complex, cross-functional initiatives.

This is leadership without silos, where success depends on your ability to align people, priorities, and execution across the organization.

What Success Looks Like

• A unified operations program strategy across all regions.
• SVPs fully focused on growth, clients, and field leadership.
• Strong ownership and performance across quality, labor, and innovation functions.
• Operations programs that are visible, measurable, and adopted in the field.

Basic Requirements

• 15+ years of operations leadership experience in a field-based or multi-region environment.
• Proven ability to build or lead enterprise-level programs, standards, or functions.
• Experience leading senior leaders (Director-level or equivalent) with clear accountability.
• Strong business acumen across operations, labor, quality, and strategy execution.
• Track record of influencing across teams, functions, and leadership levels.
• Construction or industry comparable experience strongly preferred.

Benefits

At Performance Contracting, our employees are our greatest asset. We put our people first and are proud to provide a comprehensive benefits package designed to meet the needs of our employees at every stage of life.

In our commitment to fostering an environment where everyone can thrive personally and professionally, we offer:

• Competitive pay
• Incentive bonus plan
• Employee stock ownership plan (ESOP)
• 401(k) retirement savings plan with match
• Medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision insurance plans with flexible spending account option
• Life insurance, AD&D, and disability benefits
• Employee assistance program (EAP)
• Flexible paid time off policy and paid holidays

PCG provides equal employment and affirmative action opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability.

PCG is a background screening, drug-free workplace. In accordance with the provisions of Tennessee Code Annotated (T.C.A.), Title 50, Chapter 9, PCG's Drug-Free Workplace Program includes drug and alcohol testing as part of the hiring process and throughout employment, as applicable.

Please note this job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

NOTICE TO STAFFING FIRMS, AGENCIES AND EMPLOYMENT VENDORS:

Performance Contracting Group and its affiliates will not accept unsolicited resumes from third party recruiters without a signed Fee Agreement in place AND a candidate has been submitted into our applicant tracking system (Dayforce). Vendor solicitation should be directed to the Corporate Recruitment Department directly; as such, firms that circumvent the required compliant process will be barred from submitting candidates. In the absence of a signed fee agreement AND proper resume submission, PCG does not recognize any claim on a candidate by a third party, will consider unsolicited resumes the property of the company and reserves the right to engage and hire those candidates without any financial responsibility to the third-party vendor.

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