Lincoln or Omaha, Nebraska — a high-impact leadership development role driving multi-site growth across a six-office, $60+ million Midwest restoration group.
Is This Role Right for You?
Our client is hiring a Regional Development Manager — a high-impact leadership role focused on developing people, building high-performing teams, and driving strategic growth initiatives across a six-office, $60+ million restoration group.
This is a leadership development and regional support role — helping General Managers elevate their teams, building training programs and SOPs, and driving organizational excellence across all six offices. You will NOT be expected to relocate permanently, now or in the future — but you will travel extensively (50%+) and must be prepared to step in as interim GM when leadership transitions occur (potentially for 3+ months at a time).
The Company
A leading Midwest restoration and reconstruction group — six offices across Nebraska, Illinois, Missouri, and Oklahoma.
The Market
A recession-proof, community-serving industry — floods, fires, mold emergencies — growing across multiple Midwest states.
The Opportunity
Build the leadership development infrastructure for an entire regional operation — creating scalable systems, training programs, and frameworks that develop dozens of leaders and position the region for continued growth.
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About Our Client
Our client is one of the leading restoration and reconstruction companies operating in the Midwest, with multiple offices across several states serving residential, institutional, and commercial customers. For decades, they've served communities during their darkest hours — floods, fires, mold emergencies — bringing people back to their homes and businesses with care, expertise, and a phoenix-like commitment to restoration.
They operate six offices across Nebraska, Illinois, Missouri, and Oklahoma — a $60+ million regional group with offices that range from best-in-class leadership models to high-growth markets hungry for the right leadership DNA. Some offices represent leadership excellence — tight-knit teams, strong profitability, minimal turnover, and cultures of pride, accountability, and ownership. Other offices are in growth mode — and you'll be the catalyst tasked with making that transformation happen.
The Industry Reality
The restoration industry is recession-proof, growing, and serves communities during their most vulnerable moments. Imagine a restaurant kitchen fire that closes the business and 50 employees are now temporarily out of work. Or a broken pipe that floods a home and displaces a family. Our client steps in with steadfast service, innovative solutions, and all-inclusive support to get people back in business.
The Regional Footprint
Six offices across Nebraska, Illinois, Missouri, and Oklahoma — serving residential, commercial, and institutional clients. The regional leader oversees a high-performing $60+ million operation with both model offices to learn from and growth offices ready for the right leadership catalyst.
What You'll Be Leading
You will be the strategic partner and leadership development champion to a successful regional operator — focused on elevating teams, building leadership capabilities, and driving cultural and performance transformation across multiple offices.
This is the "best of both worlds" — you'll learn from elite, high-performing teams while simultaneously developing struggling teams into powerhouse operations through coaching, mentorship, and strategic people development. This is not a process-improvement role. This is a people-first, culture-first leadership development mission.
🎓 Leadership Development
Build formal training and onboarding programs for new GMs, create leadership development curriculum for PMs and Estimators, and coach office leaders to grow skills, own results, and build accountable teams.
🔄 Cultural Transformation
Drive measurable improvements in team engagement, retention, and performance across growth markets through coaching and trust-building — not through heavy-handed processes.
📊 Succession Planning
Design and implement succession planning frameworks for the entire regional operation — identifying high-potential talent and creating development tracks that build GM-ready candidates over time.
🏗️ SOP & Systems Elevation
Work with General Managers to elevate Standard Operating Procedures, create consistency across offices, and build scalable systems that support continued regional growth.
⚡ Interim GM Capability
Step in as interim GM when needed during leadership transitions — this is not your primary function, but you must be capable of running a business unit for 3-6 months at a time while the right permanent leader is found.
What This Role Demands
We're looking for a business leader and team developer — someone with 7-12 years of experience who gets energized by coaching leaders, building winning cultures, and driving organizational transformation. You need a track record of developing people, elevating team performance, and building leadership capabilities across distributed operations.
Experience in restoration is a plus, but we're equally excited about leaders from general construction, industrial services, logistics, multi-unit hospitality, retail management, or any service-based business where you've developed managers and built high-performing teams.
Most importantly, you need business acumen, executive presence, genuine passion for developing people, and comfort with heavy travel — not just process and operations expertise.
✅ Leadership Development Track Record
Proven experience building training programs, coaching frameworks, and development pathways that drive measurable improvements in team performance and retention across multiple locations.
✅ Multi-Site Leadership Experience
7-12 years leading distributed operations — restoration, construction, industrial services, logistics, hospitality, or any service-based environment where you've built teams and developed managers.
✅ Business Acumen & P&L Literacy
Strong understanding of financial and operational levers in a service business — profitability, margins, overhead management, and how people decisions impact the bottom line. Must be capable of stepping in as interim GM for 3-6 months when needed.
✅ Executive Presence & Influence
Ability to drive change across independently operated offices by building credibility, earning trust, and influencing without direct authority.
Why This Industry, Why Now
The restoration industry is recession-proof, growing, and serves communities during their most vulnerable moments. Floods, fires, mold emergencies — these don't stop during economic downturns. If anything, deferred maintenance and aging housing stock make the need greater. This is an industry with real mission, real stability, and real growth.
But beyond the stability and mission, this role offers something unique: the opportunity to build the leadership development infrastructure for an entire regional operation — creating the systems, programs, and frameworks that will elevate six offices and position the region for continued growth and expansion. You won't just coach a few people — you'll build the playbook that develops dozens of leaders for years to come.
You're not managing the same multi-site operation year after year — you're building something from scratch that will scale across a $60+ million regional group and create better GMs, better leaders, and better internal candidates for future expansion.
Midwest-Based With Multi-State Reach
This role will be based in the Midwest, ideally Lincoln or Omaha, Nebraska (open to Kansas City for exceptional candidates). The strategic placement will be in one of the company's highest-performing markets to ensure you're immersed in leadership excellence before deploying those learnings elsewhere.
This is not a desk job. Developing leaders and teams requires boots on the ground, building real relationships, and being present when it matters most. Multi-state travel will be required, especially in the first year.
Home Base
Lincoln or Omaha, Nebraska — ideally. Open to Kansas City for exceptional candidates.
Office Locations
Six offices across Nebraska, Illinois, Missouri, and Oklahoma — you'll spend meaningful time across all markets.
Travel Expectation
Approximately 50% travel — especially heavy in the first 12–18 months. Decreases as teams strengthen and you transition into an executive role.
Your Mission Field
High-performing offices to learn from + growth-mode offices to transform. Both are critical to your development as a future executive.
Three Strategic Initiatives: Your First 12–18 Months
Success in this role will be defined by three clear priorities. This isn't a maintenance role with a polished playbook — it's an opportunity to shape what this regional organization becomes as it scales across multiple markets.
Leadership Development & Team Building Across Multiple Markets
Learn from the best-in-class leadership teams in high-performing offices, then deploy those leadership principles to develop struggling office leaders and their teams — focusing on decision-making capabilities, accountability mindsets, and building ownership cultures that drive sustainable performance.
Cultural Transformation & Performance Elevation
Drive measurable improvements in team engagement, retention, and performance across growth markets by coaching managers on how to inspire their teams, build trust, manage performance effectively, and create environments where people want to stay and excel.
Executive Leadership Apprenticeship
Work directly alongside a successful regional leader to understand the full scope of running a multi-office business — from strategic planning and margin management to people decisions and market expansion — positioning yourself for the next level, whether that's a GM role with full P&L ownership or a regional position overseeing multiple markets.
A Career-Defining Opportunity for a Motivated, Charismatic & Visionary Leader
People-First Business Leader
A coach, a mentor, a culture-builder who genuinely lights up when team members grow into their potential. You believe great businesses are built on great people — and you've proven it throughout your career.
Transformational Leader
You've taken underperforming teams and elevated them — not by doing their jobs for them, but by coaching them to think differently, make better decisions, and own their results. You inspire without micromanaging.
Executive Presence & Business Savvy
You can hold your own in discussions about margins, profitability, and growth strategy while understanding that culture eats strategy for breakfast. Strategic thinking paired with deep human intuition.
Entrepreneurial & Results-Driven
Frustrated by bureaucracy and "cog in the machine" roles. You want to see the direct, measurable impact of your coaching and are comfortable making strategic decisions while collaborating with senior leadership.
Cultural Chameleon & Change Agent
Able to quickly read different team dynamics, build trust without needing formal authority, and drive change through influence, credibility, and genuine care for people. You've navigated multi-site politics successfully.
Strategic Road Warrior
Genuinely comfortable with significant multi-state travel. You understand that developing leaders requires boots on the ground, building real relationships, and being present when it matters most.
Who We're Looking For
As the Regional Development Manager, you will serve as the strategic partner and leadership development champion to the regional leader, driving team performance, building leadership capabilities, and elevating culture and accountability across multiple offices. This is an explicit leadership development role with a clear 18–24 month trajectory to executive leadership — whether that's a General Manager role with full P&L ownership or a regional leadership position overseeing multiple markets, depending on your strengths, interests, and performance.
Master Leadership Excellence
Embed in high-performing offices, learn, absorb
Develop Struggling Leaders
Coach, elevate, transform growth-mode offices
Step Into Executive Leadership
GM with P&L ownership or regional multi-market role
Every stage of this journey demands presence, credibility, and a genuine commitment to the growth of people — from the first coaching session to the moment you take the keys to your own operation.
The Day to Day
Develop Struggling Leaders & Their Teams
Spend the majority of your time coaching office leaders who need support — helping them improve decision-making, communication, performance management, and the ability to inspire and retain their teams.
Build Leadership Capabilities Across Locations
Conduct one-on-one coaching sessions with GMs, Project Managers, and Estimators — helping them grow skills, navigate challenges, and take ownership of results without needing constant direction.
Drive Cultural Transformation
Work alongside office teams to elevate engagement, accountability, and performance — not through heavy-handed processes, but by helping leaders create environments where people want to stay, excel, and grow.
Facilitate Strategic Discussions & Problem-Solving
Lead production meetings, performance reviews, and strategic planning sessions that create clarity, alignment, and accountability across distributed teams.
Participate in Executive-Level Strategy
Gain direct exposure to P&L management, market expansion planning, growth strategy, hiring and firing decisions, and the strategic decision-making that most mid-level leaders never experience.
Required Education & Experience
We're looking for a business leader and team developer with a demonstrated track record of developing managers and elevating team performance across distributed operations. The ideal candidate brings both the strategic acumen to drive organizational transformation and the emotional intelligence to lead through influence across multiple office cultures.
5–10 Years Experience
Multi-site leadership, team development, or related management — restoration, construction, industrial services, logistics, hospitality, food service, or any service-based business where you've built and developed teams.
Proven Development Track Record
Demonstrated success coaching leaders and driving measurable improvements in engagement, retention, and team performance across multiple locations or business units.
P&L & Business Operations Fluency
Strong understanding of the financial and operational levers of a service or project-based business — profitability, margins, overhead management, and how people decisions impact the bottom line.
"Prime Mover" Career Window
Currently 1.5–7 years in current role — proven success but ready for the leap to executive leadership. College degree preferred but not required for candidates with exceptional leadership track records.
Competencies, Abilities & Skills
Leadership Development & Coaching
Natural ability to assess a leader's strengths and gaps, provide actionable coaching, and help them grow without doing their job for them.
Emotional Intelligence & Influence
High EQ — you read people well, build trust quickly, navigate difficult conversations with grace, and influence without needing formal authority.
Change Management & Cultural Transformation
Experience elevating underperforming teams or struggling managers — diagnosing people and culture issues, building buy-in, and creating sustainable improvement.
Performance Management
Ability to establish accountability frameworks, coach managers on how to manage performance, and create cultures where high performers thrive and low performers either improve or move on.
Strategic Thinking & Executive Presence
Ability to move fluidly between tactical people challenges and strategic leadership decisions. You carry yourself with confidence and credibility in discussions with senior leadership and location leaders alike.
Compensation & Benefits
Base Floor
Competitive base salary starting at $90,000.
Base Ceiling
Plus bonus tied to regional profitability and team performance improvements.
The real compensation, however, is the trajectory. While your peers are managing the same multi-site operation year after year with incremental raises, you'll be on a fast track to executive leadership — General Manager with full P&L ownership of a multi-million dollar operation or a regional leadership role overseeing multiple markets and leaders.
Medical, Dental & Vision
401k & Matching Plan
Paid Vacation Time
Paid Holidays
Paid Paternity/Maternity Leave
Life Insurance
Executive Leadership Development Programs
Seize Your Opportunity
If you're a driven people-first leader ready to develop elite teams, build a high-performance culture across a six-office regional group, and step into an executive leadership role within 18–24 months, we want to hear from you.
This is more than a job — it's a chance to shape the leadership DNA of a company that serves communities during their most difficult moments. Your future awaits.
Discover More
Curious to learn more about our client's culture, the restoration industry, or other leadership opportunities in our network? We invite you to connect and explore further.
Regional Development Manager