Position Overview

We are looking for a President, Essential Industries to lead a newly integrated business unit spanning Health, Nuclear, and IT Professional Services. This full P&L leadership role offers the opportunity to drive strategy, growth, and operational excellence across a complex, multi-service portfolio. Reporting to the CEO, you will act as both a builder and an operator—delivering results today while shaping the next phase of growth for Essential Services.

Responsibilities

What You’ll Own

• Growth, profitability, and operational performance
• Full P&L accountability for Essential Services
• Leadership across Health, Nuclear, and IT Professional Services
• Integration of teams, operating models, and go-to-market
• Strengthening the team, working relationships and succession
• Executive engagement with the CEO, the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) and the Board
  
  

What You’ll Do

Drive Growth & Strategy

• Set and execute a clear, multi-year strategy for Essential Services
• Deliver organic growth and margin expansion
• Identify and lead strategic investments and M&A opportunities
• Strengthening market positioning across public and private sector clients
• Lead a complex, regulated portfolio with strong operational rigor
• Drive forecasting accuracy, performance management, and accountability
• Ensure consistent delivery, quality, and client experience
• Bring cohesion across business lines and enable a stronger “One Calian” approach
• Align operating models, processes, and governance to support scale
• Lead targeted transformation to modernize how the business runs
• Build, align, and elevate a high-performing leadership team
• Strengthening succession, accountability, and execution discipline
• Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, and performance
• Partner closely with the CEO and executive team on enterprise priorities
• Interface with the Board on performance, strategy, and growth
• Maintain senior client relationships and support key pursuits
  
  

Qualifications

• 15+ years of leadership experience in large, complex organizations
• Proven track record of delivering growth, operational performance, and transformation
• Demonstrated P&L ownership of a sizable business unit or portfolio
• Ability to lead across multiple services, business lines, or domains
• Executive presence with experience engaging CEO and Board-level stakeholders
• Strong commercial and financial acumen, including exposure to M&A
• Builder and operator mindset, able to scale and transform while delivering results
• Ability to create clarity in complex environments and drive execution with pace
• Systems thinking mindset, connecting strategy, operations, and people
• Experience in relevant sectors such as:
• Healthcare
• Nuclear or regulated environments
• IT/professional services
• Ability to lead through complexity, integration, and change
• Strong collaboration, communication, and people leadership skills
  
  

Compensation

Competitive and commensurate with experience

Position Type

We have 1 available position.