To meet the basic qualification for this role, you will have a bachelor’s degree in management, business administration, finance, industrial technology, engineering, or a related field. In addition, to be a good fit for the General Manager opportunity, you will have:

• 10+ years of experience as a leader in a fast-paced, complex manufacturing environment with a highly complex manufactured product Quick question for you - click here
• Previous general management / P&L experience, including experience leading customer development and relationship-building Quick question for you - click here
• Excellent financial acumen, and experience managing a P&L over $50 million
• Experience leading cross-functional teams with the ability to mentor and develop team members Quick question for you - click here
• Strong self-motivation and drive, with the ability to stay on task, to effectively prioritize, and to execute tasks in a high-pressure environment
• Intermediate computer skills including proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite programs

Enjoy the Stability and Resources of an Established Leader Along with the Entrepreneurial Spirit of an Evolving, High-Growth Organization

If you have a strong background in a fast-paced manufacturing environment with a highly complex product, combined with proven leadership skills and P&L experience, the role of General Manager offers you some compelling opportunities. You will:

• Enjoy wide exposure and ample opportunities to leverage and expand your skills and experience in a well-established situation that you’ll help to maintain and grow.
• Have the autonomy to own your assignment and make your mark, while also enjoying the support of a high-performance team that has doubled market share in the past five years.
• Play a critical role with broad-based responsibility for this business. You can bring an eye for improvements and we will welcome your strong ideas.
• Join at a time of dynamic transformation, marked by new processes, new products, new markets and new opportunities. It's an environment where your skills are needed and valued.
• Enjoy a team atmosphere in an environment that's like a 70-year-old startup -- you'll find both seasoned veterans and new employees who are motivated to roll up their sleeves and work together toward common goals.

The Shyft Group (NASDAQ: SHYF), is North America's leader in specialty vehicle manufacturing, assembly, and upfit for the commercial, retail, and service specialty vehicle markets. The Shyft Group rebranded in 2020 to reflect a new focus on high-growth end markets to help ensure long-term profitable growth. Our new name and renewed focus reflects the action, speed, and agility we offer the commercial vehicle industry through our growing roster of dynamic brands -- Utilimaster, Royal Truck Body, DuraMag, Strobes-R-Us, Spartan RV Chassis, and Builtmore Contract Manufacturing.

Reporting to the President, you will be responsible for all aspects of leading and managing the operations, sales, and profitability for the motorhome / chassis business based out of our Charlotte, MI location. This includes full P&L responsibility, as well as planning, directing, and coordinating all aspects of the business including sales and marketing, engineering, manufacturing, purchasing, accounting and finance, quality, and more.

Some of your specific tasks will be to:

• Achieve and deliver forecasted sales and profitability objectives.
• Understand and execute all safety requirements and ensure a safe work environment for all employees.
• Ensure customers receive timely commitment dates, and that the organization meets or exceeds expectations (cost, quality, delivery). Support integrating operations data with the customers to provide end-to-end visibility to status and completion.
• Lead the deployment of common manufacturing-related core procedures that support the company production system requirements and direct the day-to-day activities of other functions in the manufacturing network in support.
• Work with team members to develop the future state value stream map and manage the plans to achieve it, as documented in a plant improvement plan.
• Manage new product launches to ensure all deliverables are met to support a successful production ramp while meeting the needs of the clients (quick turn with quality).
• Manage the day-to-day priorities of the value stream functional leaders, identifying problems, solutions, and action plans, thereby creating a culture of continuous improvement with a learning organization leading to meeting all goals and objectives set by the enterprise.

Pictured: Spartan RV Chassis makes the only chassis built exclusively for motorhomes. Like all our chassis, the K4 605 shown here is designed, engineered, and made in America with the finest components creating a premier foundation for the most discerning RV makers and owners.

High Impact, High Visibility Role
This is a true leadership role with a broad span of responsibility and decision-making authority. You’ll also interface with a broad cross-section of functional and business leaders, making this a high visibility position. If you’re ready to drive forward without needing permission or direction, you’ll find this is a very empowering environment.

Professional Development
You'll interface with our diverse portfolio of businesses and you’ll have opportunities to broaden your expertise and knowledge. While you could be happy and challenged in this role for years to come, your success in this role could also open opportunities across Shyft group for you to build your career here.

Stability and Growth
The Shyft Group is financially sound and will continue to be an aggressive market disrupter through strategic acquisitions, relevant product innovations, and aggressive growth models that serve strong and growing end markets. Be assured, our accelerated growth trajectory will create opportunities for strong performers.

Focused Transformation
The Shyft Group's family of well-respected brands continue as leaders in every segment in which they compete. The Shyft name represents speed, efficiency, agility, and a high-intensity approach, which corresponds with the company's pivot in market focus and the forward momentum garnered in the work truck, specialty service, and delivery vehicle markets.

Driven to Deliver
Ever-evolving and advancing, The Shyft Group is driven to make an impactful difference in how effectively goods and services are delivered in today's and tomorrow's marketplace. Through our unmatched industry knowledge, engineering expertise, and manufacturing reach, we continue to deliver job-enhancing, efficiency-driving, ever-reliable products and services made for the road ahead.

Supportive Team
You’ll work with a high-performance, well-established team. We cultivate a supportive environment -- your supervisor offers plenty of leeway for you to be creative and do what you need to do to get the job done.

Excellent Compensation
In addition to competitive compensation and bonus opportunities, we offer medical, dental, vision, and prescription insurance plans that begin on your first day of employment; a health savings account; a flexible savings account; wellness credits; a wellness program; a 401(k) plan with a corporate match; an employee stock purchase program; and more.

More about the requirements
In addition to the qualifications listed under The Requirements tab, we're looking for a professional who has:

• Excellent organizational, problem-solving, and analytical skills, sound judgment, and the ability to make timely, and sometimes difficult, decisions
• Versatility, flexibility, and a willingness to work with constantly changing priorities
• Proven ability to handle multiple projects and meet deadlines, and a commitment to excellence and high standards
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to develop strong customer relationships as well as to lead a team
• Experience developing and delivering executive management presentations

Preferred but not required:

• A master’s degree

More about the role
In addition to the information under The Role tab, you need to know:

Your key goals are to achieve business objectives including growth, market share improvement, financial results, and product development, as well as to build customer relationships and provide support, complete cost improvement initiatives, and ensure employee engagement and development.

This is a hands-on role in many ways. From a management standpoint, you’ll have a variety of direct reports including the Quality Manager, Production Control Manager, Production Manager/Production Supervisors, and Sales, as well as matrix reporting relationships with the Engineering Manager, HR Manager, and Finance Manager/ Controller/ Accounting Manager. You will spend a good deal of time interfacing directly with customers, so you'll need to be a great communicator to build and maintain strong relationships. You will be involved in product planning, sales initiatives, customer events and tradeshows, and more. On a day-to-day basis, you’ll split your time fairly evenly between customer interface and development, leading execution of key initiatives, employee engagement and development, strategic planning and development, and management of financial results.

• Create a culture that stops to fix problems to get quality right the first time.
• Ensure that standardized work/processes are followed, countermeasures implemented, and area of responsibility is compliant with all requirements.
• Create the basis for continuous improvement and employee empowerment at all levels to drive measurable results.
• Develop, implement, and monitor facility budget and manage expenses within approved budget constraints.
• Instill and maintain a positive can-do team atmosphere.
• Ensure effective cross-training for employees, including backups, to ensure continuous levels of required support. Develop and maintain an effective organization through the selection, training, and motivation of all personnel. Ensure employee development programs are in place and effective.
• Develop, maintain, and communicate the results of the KPIs so all stakeholders are aware of performance and issues; all information is visual and obvious to the enterprise; and no problems remain hidden. Manage the facility reporting to ensure accurate information flow for all performance indicators.
• Develop and maintain a positive relationship with customers, fellow leaders, employees, and departments that support the manufacturing process.
• Continually improve processes by investigating changes in manufacturing methods by evaluating technological developments, investigating feasibility of new equipment and techniques, and providing dependable cost estimates and supporting financial analysis.
• Stay up-to-date on overall activities of the team, identify problem areas and take corrective actions.

Note: this description is intended to give you a general overview of the position and is not an exhaustive listing of duties and responsibilities.

More about your success
This is a fast-paced environment experiencing dynamic growth, and while that provides excitement and opportunities, it also delivers unique challenges. For example, you’ll need to both keep your finger on the pulse of internal operations while also ensure you take the time to maintain customer and supplier relationships. It will be important that you come in with broad enough experience to understand the key drivers of success for bottom-line results, and that you can integrate with a team who is already moving that needle.

Our ideal candidate is energetic, with the presence, experience, and trustworthiness to create a compelling vision and engage others to follow it. If you're right for this role, you have strong interpersonal skills to work with your team as well as with external customers. In addition, there are some automotive industry-specific complexities associated with launching and compliance related to motor vehicles that you’ll need to be aware of to find success in this role.

Pictured: The Shyft Group's success depends on the hard work and craftsmanship of our many talented employees.