General Manager, NEXT in Atlanta, Georgia at World 50 LLC

World 50 Group is a global leader in facilitating meaningful collaboration among C-suite executives from the world’s most influential companies. Through curated peer communities, strategic insights, and trusted exchange, we empower senior leaders to navigate challenges, share experiences and create lasting impact. We cultivate community, where leaders go beyond their company, to co-create a future of extraordinary impact.

Role: General Manager, NEXT

Reports To: Maddie Burke

Location: Atlanta

Workplace Type: We ask all employees to work a hybrid schedule, with a minimum 2x/week in their local office. We welcome employees to utilize office space more than that where possible.

We are seeking a dynamic, commercially-driven, and highly collaborative leader to run the day-to-day operations of NEXT. NEXT is a brand within World 50 Group that is dedicated to world-class executive development. Reporting directly to the Head of NEXT, this role is a premier leadership opportunity to operationalize a high-impact growth strategy and scale a thriving platform.

If you are an operational mastermind who understands how to connect disparate business units, from enterprise sales to program delivery, into a cohesive growth engine, we encourage you to explore this role.

As the General Manager, you will be instrumental in continuing to scale NEXT into a market-leading executive development platform. This highly commercial role requires a unique blend of strategic vision, operational excellence, and hands-on leadership. With a true builder mentality, you will lead the business through its next phase of growth. Your key responsibilities will center around commercial ownership (P&L, growth) to drive a sustainable, high-margin business model that delivers exceptional executive value and strong growth through predictable, repeatable strategies.

Key Responsibilities:

• Commercial Ownership & P&L Leadership: Accountability for the P&L, overall growth, and margin profiles, creating and executing a strategic growth plan to expand NEXT’s bookings (revenue) and market presence. Build, model, and execute repeatable sales and marketing campaigns to drive predictable top-line growth and precise sales forecasting. Leverage a creative and commercial mindset to turn innovative ideas into profitable revenue streams, while maintaining an entrepreneurial drive to spot untapped market opportunities.
• End-to-End Events & Platform Operations: Oversee core platform operations, including forward planning, budget management, and internal education. Serve as a strong operator with deep expertise across the entire event ecosystem end-to-end, managing program capacity and optimizing resource utilization to maximize yield and venue efficiency.
• Team Leadership & Talent Instinct: Apply strong talent instincts to recruit, mentor, and develop high-performing teams, fostering internal growth and managing key relationships. You will establish rigorous processes and execution standards, continuing a culture of accountability and continuous development that guides the team to excel in service delivery and experience curation.
• Relationship-Led Communication & Engagement: Act as a relationship-oriented leader, establishing credibility with partners at all levels. Oversee high-level leadership updates, ensuring clear, strategic, and transparent communication across internal teams and external stakeholders.
• Member Experience & Scalability: Establish and manage the necessary systems, platforms, and data-driven feedback mechanisms to continuously improve the participant journey, identifying new business opportunities, and scaling a highly differentiated event experience.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate closely with internal teams, serving as a key brand ambassador for NEXT while ensuring we leverage learnings and tools proven successful in other parts of our business.
  
  

The Ideal Candidate

You are an entrepreneurial, P&L-tested leader motivated by the opportunity to scale and optimize a premium, event-based commercial venture. You possess a deep understanding of executive audiences, possess a track record of scaling teams, and combine strong operational and process execution with the ability to build high-value, relationship-led partnerships.

What You Bring:

• Commercial Ownership & P&L Acumen: Proven experience taking commercial ownership of a P&L, driving revenue growth, protecting margins, accurate sales forecasting, and executing repeatable, scalable campaigns. Demonstrated ability to turn creative concepts into profitable propositions.
• End-to-End Events Expertise & Operations: Experience in event-centric business models, forward planning, and budget management—specifically demonstrating end-to-end mastery of the events ecosystem, program capacity management, and yield optimization.
• Enterprise Sales Collaboration: Track record of partnering closely with enterprise sales teams, driving weekly sales alignment, and converting executive relationships (CHROs/CTOs) into pipeline growth.
• Builder Mentality & Entrepreneurial Drive: A track record of growing or repositioning a business, with a sharp eye for spotting new revenue opportunities and turning strategic vision into market growth.
• Talent Instinct & Team Development: Strong talent instincts with a focus on developing teams and managing cross-functional relationships. A strong operator who excels at team structure, repeatable processes, and flawless execution.
• Relationship-Led Leadership: Highly credible with C-suite clients, internal teams and strategic partners, combining executive presence with a collaborative, trust-first leadership style.
• Resourcefulness & Systems Thinking: Action-oriented, organized, and focused on building repeatable, sustainable systems that scale operations and deliver exceptional value.

The World 50 Group Way is our unified cultural framework that defines who we are and how we operate, shaped by insights and input from our associates. It brings together our mission, purpose, values, and DNA to foster a culture of community, collaboration, learning, and lasting impact.

Our DNA - How we show up

• Member Obsessed: Building real connections and helping our members win is what drives us.
• Entrepreneurial: We see challenges as chances to get creative and make things happen.
• Collaborators: We’re stronger together: we share ideas, support each other, and create amazing experiences as one team.
• Learners: We stay curious, keep growing, and never stop learning.
• Humble: We aim high but leave our egos at the door - it’s about progress, not perfection.
• Community: We celebrate wins, hold each other accountable, and have plenty of laughs along the way.

As a purpose driven company, we’re dedicated to building a workplace where people from different backgrounds can do their best work. Our company value One & All, demonstrates our commitment to creating a place where every individual feels seen, supported, and free to bring their whole selves to work. When people feel genuinely valued and included, they’re more engaged and effective. That’s why we focus on cultivating an environment that celebrates difference, empowers connection, and accelerates the success of our members and their organisations.