Associate To The Chairman

Description

Position at GVW Group, LLC

GVW Group is a privately held, entrepreneurial industrial and investment holding company that invests in and scales businesses that disrupt legacy industries. We operate with a relentless focus on customer-centric innovation, strategic discipline, and operational excellence. GVW grows companies and invests across manufacturing, logistics, technology, and services, all while embodying a culture where loyalty, results, and ownership drive everything we do for the next 1000 years.

Job Overview:

The Associate to the Chairman is a deeply embedded, high-trust role responsible for amplifying the reach, effectiveness, functionality, and execution of the Chairman’s operational and strategic priorities. This is not an Assistant role, nor a typical strategy post. You will operate as the Chairman’s executive, strategic, and operational arm always ensuring that his priorities are your priorities, and nothing important to him falls behind or is unaccounted for.

This role is for an executor — someone who thrives in the trenches of turning plans into results, managing projects end-to-end, and driving operational performance. Strategy matters, but output and follow-through matter more.

This role demands discretion, loyalty, impeccable judgment, strong functional skills, and unshakable urgency. You must move fast but never recklessly, act decisively but only with clarity, and always ask when uncertain—because you are not just representing the Chairman, you are an extension of him. In this role, "forgiveness" is not a fallback—clarity and alignment are mandatory.

Expected Outcomes:

• The Chairman’s strategic priorities are executed flawlessly, with full transparency and proactive updates.
• Critical issues and opportunities are surfaced early and clearly—never missed or misjudged.
• The Chairman’s voice, tone, and expectations are reflected in every communication, action, and initiative.
• Operational tasks, initiatives, and cross-functional projects are executed with speed, clarity, and full accountability.
• Execution outpaces ideas — the Chairman's directives and intentions translate into visible progress on the ground.
• Projects move forward with speed, structure, and surgical follow-through.
• The Chairman is always equipped, informed, and never blindsided.
• Our internal family-friendly brand is maintained.
• Core operating principles and business model principles are applied.

Essential Job Responsibilities:

1. Operational Execution & Strategic Implementation

• Drive Operational and Strategic Initiatives: Translate the Chairman’s vision into reality through hands-on execution, structured project ownership, and cross-functional coordination that impacts performance and growth.
• Own Project Management: Take full accountability for the delivery of critical projects, ensuring deadlines, milestones, and quality standards are met.
• Step Into Gaps: Where execution lags or structure is missing, fill the void. You are not reporting the problem — you are solving it.
• Shadow and Augment: Step into operational gaps to triage problems, stabilize performance, or support overwhelmed leadership teams with structure and urgency.
• Run Critical Projects: Own end-to-end execution of confidential projects including M&A, turnarounds, board-level presentations, or strategic planning.

2. Market Intelligence & Business Development

• Conduct project market research, competitor benchmarking, and performance assessments to support the Chairman’s business decisions.
• Build investment theses, support capital allocation models, and vet M&A or joint venture opportunities, and due diligence when necessary.
• Represent the Chairman in preliminary discussions with potential partners or acquisition or partnership opportunities.

3. Chairman Integration & Execution Rhythm

• Anticipate His Needs: Build a rhythm of daily check-ins, strategic debriefs, and reverse briefings to keep the Chairman prepared and focused.
• Pre-Read, Pre-Write, Pre-Think: Draft communications, talking points, and presentations in the Chairman’s tone and mindset—before they’re even asked for.
• No Surprises: Maintain real-time visibility of all major initiatives, decisions, risks, and stakeholder dynamics.

4. Relationship Management & Influence

• Code-switch effortlessly: Navigate conversations from factory workers to Fortune 500 CEOs with equal ease and credibility.
• Handle with care: Engage family members, legal advisors, investors, and executives with emotional intelligence and discretion.
• Build quiet influence and steer outcomes while operating behind the scenes—without needing recognition.

Personal Qualities & Core Values

• Loyalty: Absolute dedication to the Chairman’s mission, goals, and reputation.
• Discretion: You will be trusted with sensitive, confidential matters — nothing leaks, ever.
• Proactive Precision: Take initiative, move quickly, and think ahead. But never assume—ask first when unsure. There’s no shame in checking. There is, in misrepresenting.
• Eye-Level Communicator: Must be equally comfortable and credible on a shop floor or in the CEO’s office.
• Sense of Urgency: Execution is relentless. If it can be done today, don’t wait until tomorrow.
• No Ego: Operate in the background. Credit is irrelevant — results are everything.
• Walk the Talk: Nothing is below us. Do whatever it takes within the boundaries of the law and operating principles to get the results.

Essential Skills and Experience:

• 6–10 years in demanding, high-stakes environments: top-tier consulting, investment banking, military leadership, private equity, or operating roles in entrepreneurial firms.
• Proven track record in delivering tangible outcomes, managing initiatives with ambiguous scope and high consequences.
• Project management proficiency: Able to lead multiple, concurrent initiatives from concept to execution under pressure.
• Strong financial fluency: modeling, forecasting, P&L comprehension.
• MBA or equivalent graduate degree preferred.
• Deep exposure to industrial, manufacturing, logistics, or B2B services is a plus.
• Demonstrated track record of delivering expected results.

Executional Requirements:

• You are available when the Chairman needs you—travel and irregular hours may be necessary.
• You are obsessive about follow-up, documentation, and accountability.
• You know when to lead, when to support, and when to escalate.
• You make data-informed decisions but also recognize emotional and political dynamics.
• You speak plainly, write clearly, and can simplify complexity into structured action.

Physical Requirements:

• Capable of wearing personal protective equipment which may include safety shoes, gloves, safety glasses, and ear protection.

• Capable of meeting OSHA standards for manual lifting guidelines: < 50lbs
• Ability to stand, sit, and/or walk for extended periods.

Location:

Miami, Florida – On site every day, plus travel as needed,

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation includes a base salary, performance bonus, and full benefits.
• Direct access to C-level strategic decision-making and transformative projects.
• Mentorship from a seasoned entrepreneur and exposure to company-building at the highest level.
• A culture that values outcomes over optics, loyalty over politics, and boldness over bureaucracy.

The Bottom Line

If you're someone who is naturally proactive, thrives in intensity, who wants to move fast and execute hard, and who is humble enough to ask, but strong enough to lead—this role will put you in the center of gravity of a growing portfolio of companies and investments.

This is a role for a doer, not just a thinker. The Chairman’s priorities are your priorities. Every day. Without exception.

GVW Group is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.