Director of Special Projects

About Us

Elevation Capital is a group of internationally impactful companies spanning consumer packaged goods, hospitality, technology, real estate, non-profit, and venture funding. Run by a highly entrepreneurial self-made founder, and a team of highly capable executives across business units, the business operates globally with interests in US, Canada, Europe, and the Caribbean. With wholly owned companies in a range of growth stages and an ever-expanding investment portfolio, this group jointly serves a global vision to create an evolved world where humanity serves our highest purpose. To learn more, please visit: https://www.elevationcapital.vc/

About the Role

Your key focus in this position will be to work directly with the CEO and Leadership Team on strategy, planning, developing and monitoring quarterly OKRs and day-to-day KPIs. You will be deployed into high priority strategic and operational projects as the company continues to build structure, grow within current markets, and expand into new markets. This role will be an asset company-wide, supporting complex projects, driving key strategic initiatives, and providing ad hoc expertise and support as needed across various functions. In addition, you will serve as an escalation point for operational needs, gathering feedback prior to bringing your recommendations and solutions to the CEO.

Responsibilities

• Ensuring maximized efficiency and effectiveness of all meetings with the CEO, including prepping, and activating the Management Team in meetings which could include planning and facilitation, advising the agenda, guiding the discussion, bringing together notes and action items, and assuming responsibility for completion of action items
• Develop project roadmaps, timelines, and KPIs to measure success.
• Manage budgets, resources, and stakeholder expectations for all assigned initiatives.
• Work directly with our CEO to drive high priority company projects and initiatives as we continue to grow our business and expand into new markets
• Conduct financial analysis to assess performance, identify opportunities, and recommend investments.
• Collaborate with IT partners to align technology solutions with business needs and oversee IT-related projects.
• Act as a back-up resource for hiring and recruiting, assisting in sourcing, interviewing, and onboarding processes as needed.
• Develop routine dashboards for monitoring project performance, ensuring data transparency and alignment with goals.
• Write scope-of-work documents for contract resources, clearly outlining project requirements and deliverables.

Qualifications

• 10+ years' experience supporting the leadership team in a similar capacity
• 5+ years' taking the lead on and driving strategic projects throughout the company
• 3+ years' experience partnering with founder/entrepreneur to manage and organize executives and executive teams to peak performance in a multi-business structure; you build relationships with other stakeholders and become everyone's main point of contact so that all communications go through your first
• Operations or business leadership with P&L or business unit-level functionality and responsibility
• Strong strategic planning and financial and business acumen
• Significant project management and data analytics experience; Project Management Institute (PMI) certification preferred
• Project management skills, Gantt charts, pert, timelines, official project management and project portfolio management experience; an expert juggler of all tasks who can provide specific details, strong history of organizing complicated projects within tight timelines, stores things in an organized fashion, communicates in clear and concise fashion, and able to communicate complex topics in an articulate manner
• Experience in a startup and/or hyper-growth environment
• Experience in people and people management support that drives performance through a performance management system
• Ability to pivot quickly, stay calm under pressure, and streamline processes in a fast paced, high growth environment
• A persuasive, influential, and great motivator; get impossible things done, while people still like them.
• Strong history of building, maintaining, and developing positive relationships; ability and proven experience to get anyone on the phone; fantastic negotiator, good at getting people to say yes
• Expert proficiency in Microsoft O365, G Suite, Mac, et al., and implementing technology to make the team more efficient and effective
• Very fast: thinks, speaks, and moves fast while remaining highly detailed and accurate
• Highly adaptable: extremely change ready; brings stability, structure, and profitability to a dynamic environment
• Emotionally grounded: strong EQ (emotional intelligence) and emotional control; knows how to manage hot people and hot environments without breaking a sweat; hustle mentality with strong endurance but is self-managing with their time

Pay range and compensation package

An aggressive base salary will be provided in this position, with an additional lucrative bonus plan based on performance. Full medical benefits are provided as part of this role. Options/equity will be provided to suitable candidates after completion of the first 90 days. This role also provides the opportunity for advancement in role, function and pay.