Exciting Opportunity to Join Our Legacy of Environmental Leadership!\n

Location: Headquartered in Indianapolis, with 2,000+ employees nationwide\n

About Us: At Heritage Environmental Services, we are more than just a company; we are pioneers in industrial waste management, committed to creating a cleaner, safer world. Since our inception during the environmental movement of the 1970s, we've been at the forefront of solving complex environmental challenges. With a dedicated team spread across the United States, we provide innovative and compliant solutions to thousands of clients in diverse industries.

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Why Heritage?\n\nImpactful Work: Be part of a team that makes a real difference. Our comprehensive services range from hazardous waste management and emergency response to onsite support and technical solutions, allow us to solve our customers waste challenges. We are part of the solution. We don't generate any waste ourselves.\nGrowth Opportunities: At Heritage, your contribution is valued beyond your job title. We believe in the power of continuous learning and growth, encouraging every employee to expand their skills and take on new challenges.\nSafety First: Your health and safety are our top priorities. We foster a culture where every employee is empowered to act safely and ensure the well-being of their colleagues. Our mantra is Safe and Compliant, or Not at All.\nCollaborative Environment: Together we can achieve much more. Join a supportive and dynamic team where your ideas and efforts are recognized and rewarded.

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Our Commitment: We are dedicated to fostering an inclusive and innovative workplace where every employee can thrive. As part of our team, you will have the freedom to contribute your expertise wherever needed, ensuring the success of our mission to protect the environment.

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Our Ambition: Leading the Way in Hazardous Waste Management
Our goal is to become the fastest-growing and most profitable hazardous waste platform, powered by industry-leading, end-to-end capabilities. We aim to be the top choice for our customers, driven by a high-performing team that thrives on solving challenges, continuous learning, and growth.\n

Exciting News: Heritage Environmental Services is now backed by the EQT Infrastructure VI fund, enhancing our capabilities, and expanding our reach. EQT is a dynamic global investment powerhouse managing EUR 232 billion in assets (EUR 128 billion fee-generating). With a focus on Private Capital and Real Assets, EQT owns and supports leading companies across Europe, Asia-Pacific, and the Americas, fostering sustainable growth, operational excellence, and market leadership. This exciting ownership positions us for even greater impact and growth in the future.

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Manager, Strategy Acceleration \n

As the Manager, Strategy Acceleration you will be instrumental in driving high-impact growth and efficiency initiatives at Heritage Environmental Services. Reporting directly to the Vice President, Strategy Acceleration you will collaborate with operations, commercial teams, and functional departments on a variety of strategic initiatives including operational and commercial excellence, organizational redesign, post-merger integration, and digital transformation.\n

You will be responsible for leading a high-performing team of analysts and subject matter experts as part of the Transformation Management Office (TMO). You will leverage best-practice project and change management approaches to drive value-creating initiatives. The ambition for the TMO is to become a career catalyst for high-potential future leaders by creating opportunities to engage with various parts of the business, work on high-impact projects, and actively contribute to the company's strategic direction.\n

Keys to success in this transversal role is a strong ability to lead by influence, build trust-based relationships, and collaborate effectively with leaders and teams across the company. \n

Essential Functions & Requirements: \n\nPrioritizes health and safety by adhering to policies, processes, and maintaining safe practices at all times\nLeads and develops a high-performing team of analysts and relevant subject matter experts (SMEs)\nDelivers targeted, high-impact projects across the organization, including assigned Company Full Potential Plan (FPP) initiatives, post-merger integration (PMI), reorganization, pricing, and digital transformation\nOptimizes key business work processes, identifying the current state, pain points, opportunities for improvement, and utilizes data-driven feedback loops to develop recommendations for a future state with implementation and change management plans\nLeverages best-practice project and change management approaches to drive value-creating initiatives to sustainable completion\nSupports the VP of Strategy Acceleration in prioritizing high-impact projects aligned with resource deployment, corporate strategies, and FPP goals\nIdentifies incremental value-creating opportunities, flagging them to the VP of Strategy Acceleration and incorporating them into the prioritized portfolio\nFlags shortfalls, risks, or roadblocks identified in value-creating projects to the VP of Strategy Acceleration and SVP of Transformation and recommends remediation plans to recover lost value or address delayed implementation timelines\nTracks and provides regular reporting on project statuses to the TMO and senior leadership \nDelivers measurable EBITDA impact through assigned projects focused on operational efficiency, commercial performance, functional optimization, and organizational agility\nProvides post-merger integration (PMI) support to the M&A team\nTakes on additional duties as assigned to support the team and organization

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Education:\n\nBachelor's degree (required)\nMBA (preferred)

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Experience: \n\n4+ years of experience in project management or business transformation of relevant size and scale (required)\nProven track record in delivering efficiency improvements and growth initiatives (required)\nDemonstrated experience building and leading high-performing, agile teams (required)\nExperience in organizational redesign and post-merger integration (preferred)\nExperience in environmental industry or in industrial production and process industries (preferred)

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Competencies: \n\nPrior experience leading a high-performing team and delivery of tangible results \nStrategic thinking skills to translate business objectives into actionable plans\nProject management strengths, especially in leading large and complex projects, influencing cross-functional key stakeholders, and prioritizing tasks for maximum impact\nExperience with improving business processes, continuous improvement, digital transformation\nUnderstanding of M&A and PMI best practices\nAbility to maintain an independent perspective of what is best for the organization to drive successful outcomes across various stakeholder points of view\nRegular and predictable attendance to consistently perform the vital functions and requirements of this role, contributing to our ongoing success\n\n

Benefits, Compensation, & Workforce Diversity:

Heritage offers competitive pay and bonus incentives. Benefits include choice of medical, dental, and vision plans, flexible spending or health savings accounts, employee and dependent life insurance, short and long-term disability, 401(k) savings plan with company match, and tuition reimbursement. \n

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran or status as a qualified individual with a disability.\n
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A post-offer drug screen will be required. \n
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