VP of Operations
community_social_services › Operations · E1 — E1 — Director (Executive) · Executive
Executive who leads the organization's client intake, service connection, and volunteer programs.
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$166,070 USD
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What this role is
Executive who leads the organization's client intake, service connection, and volunteer programs. At the Director (Executive) (E1) level, the role owns a significant function with strategic authority, strategic and cross-functional, and drives function-wide enterprise impact. Executive leadership of a function.
What this level does
- Holds executive responsibility for an entire operations department, setting performance targets and owning operational efficiency for the support-programs function (VP of Operations).
- Sets the annual operating budget and sales/performance targets for the function and leads Directors of Operations to deliver against them.
- Owns the recurring operating cadence — issue reviews, KPI tracking through Power BI/SAP, and stakeholder communications — as the accountable functional executive.
- Develops and implements operational strategies to improve efficiency and profitability across the department's programs.
- Serves as the escalation owner of last resort for customer-facing operational escalations, ensuring resolution and closing the loop with major customers.
- Knowledge applied
- Applies deep functional operations knowledge plus detailed company knowledge to set functional strategy for one operations department; owns the KPI/reporting stack (SAP, Salesforce, Power BI) as an operating instrument.
- Complexity & problem solving
- Resolves functional-strategy problems with serious functional and business consequences — budget performance, target attainment, and escalation resolution within the department.
- Collaboration & interaction
- Interfaces with other executives and major customers; owns customer-facing escalation resolution as the accountable functional executive.
- Typical experience
- 12–15+ years of operations and management experience, including leading Directors.
Skills at this level
- Operations Strategy
- — Shapes long-term operational strategies and aligns operations with business goals to drive growth, manage risk, and foster profitability across departments and units.
- Operational Budgeting and Target-Setting
- — Sets operating budgets, sales and performance targets, and evaluates the organization's overall performance against them, adjusting resource allocation to protect margin.
- Operational Performance Monitoring
- — Tracks KPIs and produces progress reports and assessments, running recurring operating cadences and issue reviews to steer department and division performance.
- Data Analysis
- — Analyzes large operational datasets in Power BI, SAP, and Salesforce to extract actionable insights and evaluate program performance and outcomes.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- — Collaborates with counterparts throughout the business to liaise between departments and identify opportunities to improve business efficiency across functions.
- Customer Escalation Management
- — Owns resolution of customer-facing operational escalations, ensuring timely follow-up, resolution tracking, and closure with major customers.
- Executive Stakeholder Interaction
- — Coordinates with high-ranking officials and negotiates critical operational matters with top company leaders, board members, and major customers.
- Operational Risk Management
- — Identifies and manages enterprise-level operational risks in support-program operations, setting risk posture that protects company viability and profitability.
- Process Design and Improvement
- — Develops and implements efficient operational processes and strategies to improve efficiency and profitability across programs and departments.
- Organizational Leadership
- — Leads operations departments and divisions through Directors and VPs, setting performance targets and evaluating senior leaders against organizational goals.
- Corporate Strategy Participation
- — Works with the CEO and board to shape corporate strategy, translating enterprise direction into operating plans for large units or the whole company.
- Compliance and Standards Governance
- — Ensures operational procedures adhere to company policies and standards across programs, embedding compliance into budgeting and performance processes.
- AI-Enabled Workflow Tooling
- — Prioritizes AI-assisted tools to improve operational workflow efficiency, documentation, analysis, and executive decision support.
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