Business Unit President

Company: 180one
Location: Portland
Posted on: June 2, 2025

Job Description:

New Opportunity: Business Unit PresidentBusiness Unit PresidentABOUT THE COMPANYIn business for over 80 years, Research Products Corporation is a large, privately held, national leader in indoor air quality solutions that creates healthy environments where we live, work, learn, and play. Through our companies AprilAire, DriSteem, Anden, and RP Filters we seek to provide customers with exceptional service and superior products for both residential and commercial applications.ABOUT THE ROLEThe President will lead our commercial HVAC IAQ businesses: DriSteem, Anden and RP Filters. Reporting to the CEO Research Products, the President will be fully accountable for the P&L of these businesses. The role will ensure the commercial businesses meet or exceed annual revenue and profitability goals, as well as provide leadership to grow, prepare for, and achieve longer term growth objectives. This includes driving growth using each of the four RP growth strategies - Core - Build - Innovate - Partner.Direct reports to this role include the President of DriSteem, the General Manager of Anden, and the General Manager of RP Filters. This commercial team is focused on business strategy, growth, and optimization that includes support from functional leads in RP operations, engineering, finance, HR, and IT. This team will foster and promote our vision for leadership, double-digit growth and our mission to deliver healthy more productive indoor air environments where we work, learn, and play.DELIVERABLES

• Set growth and execution strategy for the overall commercial group as well as the business entities within the group.
• Formulate and implement a strategic and annual operating plan that will drive profitable growth for the business while working closely with the CEO and other members of management.
• Lead, develop and build a high performance level 1 and 2 leadership team and supporting cross-functional teams to support double-digit revenue and EBITDA growth.
• Identify and develop internal talent and future leaders for succession planning of key leadership roles within the group.
• Establish a growth mindset. Bring a hands-on approach to creating and maintaining customer relationships, understanding industry trends and opportunities.
• Align direct and indirect support resources across functional teams to support business priorities for the commercial group overall.
• Develop and execute short and long-term sales, marketing, and product plans and ensure brand alignment.
• Develop and execute short and long-term margin improvement plans that include rigorous pricing, cost, and productivity management.
• Raise the performance bar by energizing the organization around a high standard of operational excellence.
• Provide financial forecasts, implement controls to optimize revenue and profit, minimize risk, and oversee resource allocation.RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Lead the Commercial businesses to meet or exceed annual revenue and profitability goals.
  • P&L responsibility for entire IAQ commercial group.
  • Provide leadership to prepare the business to achieve longer term growth objectives.
  • Manage, align, and develop a multi-site and expanding team including support from Operations, Engineering, Marketing, Sales, Human Resources, and Finance.
  • Drive positive cultural change in the organization.
  • Promote collaboration with RP and Aprilaire.
  • Demonstrate a results-oriented management style.
  • Support M&A due diligence and the process of acquiring complementary businesses.
  • Ensure that the outstanding record of safety, quality, health, and environmental performance of the company is maintained.
  • Represent and advocate the company externally at meetings with customers and other key external constituents.PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS
    • 15+ years' senior leadership experience with ultimate accountability for a P&L.
    • Demonstrated history of double-digit profitable revenue growth with P&L exceeding $100M revenue.
    • Experience developing and executing strategic and commercial business plans.
    • Experience in HVAC or other commercial building systems industries.
    • Experience in product line management, go-to-market commercial, and operations management.
    • Extensive experience developing financial forecasts.
    • Experience building, leading and expanding a commercial business.
    • Preferred experience participating in the M&A process.
    • Strong prioritization, project management and communication skills.
    • Demonstrated cross-functional collaboration.
    • Strong influencing skills working across functions.
    • Demonstrated ability to make quality and timely decisions.
    • Results-oriented, organized, able to handle changing priorities.
    • Humble, unselfish leadership style.Interested in Learning More?180one is a retained search firm and has been engaged by Research Products Corporation to manage this search. If interested in learning more about the opportunity, please contact Tom Haley / 503-334-1350 / tom@180one.com
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