Senior Vice President at Rabine LLC – Schaumburg, Illinois

Summary/Objective

We’re looking for a true operator and builder.

This role owns the performance, growth, and direction of Rabine Paving America and Rabine Snow & Land. You will lead a national platform built on both internal teams and a certified partner network, with full P&L responsibility.

This is not a maintenance role—it’s a growth role. The focus is on scaling the business, improving consistency, and building recurring, account-based revenue.

Essential Functions:

Financial Performance

• Full ownership of revenue, margin, and EBITDA
• Forecasting, budgeting, and long-term planning
• Cost control across labor, equipment, and partner spend
• Pricing strategy that protects margin and drives growth

Revenue Growth & National Accounts

• Identify and pursue national account opportunities and diversify client portfolio
• Work directly with Sales Leadership to drive growth strategy
• Convert transactional work into long-term contracts
• Shape go-to-market strategy and target accounts
• Expand share of wallet through multi-service offerings

Operations & Execution

• Ensure projects are delivered safely, on time, on budget, and at high quality
• Align estimating, project management, and field teams
• Standardize workflows and build scalable operations
• Gain understanding of internal RPA and Group processes/SOPs
• Continuously looking for opportunities to better processes and create efficiencies
• Ability to administer and analyze team and company KPI's and make adjustments to enhance performance

Bidding & Estimating Discipline

• Select the right work based on profitability and risk
• Ensure accurate, executable proposals
• Protect the business through strong contracts and scope definition

Certified Partner Network

• Build and manage a high-performing partner network
• Hold partners accountable to Rabine standards
• Ensure partner execution reflects the Rabine brand

Client Leadership

• Build executive-level client relationships
• Ensure alignment between sales commitments and delivery
• Resolve issues and drive retention and renewals
• Ability to understand and articulate differentiating factors RPA can provided for client needs
• Continuously looking for opportunities to strengthen client relationships
• Understanding of client requirements and expectations

Safety & Risk

• Enforce safety standards across all operations
• Ensure compliance and proactive risk management
• Embed safety into daily operations

Team Leadership

• Build and lead a high-performing team
• Set clear expectations, KPIs, and accountability
• Drive a culture of ownership and continuous improvement
• Lead recruiting and succession planning

Systems & Scalability

• Ensure consistent use of systems and reporting tools
• Build dashboards and performance visibility
• Use data to drive decisions and scale operations

Qualifications:

• 10–15+ years leadership experience in construction or service-based contracting
• Leads with strong problem-solving and troubleshooting, proactively driving value engineering solutions that create alignment and value across all stakeholders.
• Proven P&L ownership ($10M–$50M+)
• Experience scaling multi-location or national operations
• Strong financial and operational acumen
• Deep understanding of estimating and field execution
• Experience managing subcontractor or partner models
• Track record building high-performing teams
• Experience with national accounts and contract-based relationships
• Ability to operate strategically while executing at a high level
• Experience with recurring revenue or snow/maintenance services is a plus
• Ability to make difficult decisions, backed by experience, that protect the best interests of RPA
• Ability to have difficult conversations backed by industry knowledge and experience
• Creates a positive work environment for team members while still focusing on execution

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or 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.

Work Environment

This job operates in a professional office setting. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

Physical Demands

This role requires the individual to express or exchange ideas by means of the spoken word; those activities where detailed or important spoken instructions must be conveyed to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly. This role requires the individual to make substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers often. The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; and/or extensive reading.

Position Type and Expected Hours of Work

40+ hours weekly, Monday through Friday

Travel

Up to 35%

EEO Statement

The Rabine Group and its companies is an equal opportunity employer.