Company

 
 

VP, People & Culture

Greenwood Village, CO

EnergyCAP, LLC (ENC) is the only Energy & Sustainability ERP empowering customers with full control and understanding of their energy & sustainability data to reduce their carbon footprint and drive savings. For over 40 years, more than 10,000 energy, sustainability, and finance leaders have been using EnergyCAP to streamline accounting processes, reduce resource consumption, and identify opportunities for sustainable operations. EnergyCAP helps customers who are drowning in paper bills, manual processes, and cumbersome spreadsheets and enables them to execute, analyze, and report on the energy projects needed to build a more sustainable world.

They have recently made a dynamic shift, bringing in new leadership and resources to leverage their market position, trusted brand and best-in-class technology platform, broadening their solution to enable existing and new market expansion and drive significant growth.

EnergyCAP, LLC is a multiple year winner of ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year, Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies, and Environmental Leader's Product of the Year. In addition to our award-winning Energy & Sustainability ERP software, we provide bill processing, project implementation, training, and other support services.

 

“One of the biggest benefits that EnergyCAP brought was giving us the ability to look at [our] utility bills and see opportunities for conservation or identifying issues.”

- Casey Keyser, Senior Energy Manager, Oklahoma State University

“Because of the complexities of the Commonwealth, we decided that an enterprise utility bill management system was needed that required feature-rich software and there really are very few systems out there that offer the extensive capabilities of EnergyCAP.”

- Kurt Homan, Assistant Director, Penn State Facilities Engineering Institute

 
 

Position

 

The Position

Reporting directly to the CEO, this leader will be a key advisor, working closely with the senior leadership team, providing a bias for action, and having a strong orientation toward business outcomes. S/he will be an integral part of the Executive Leadership Team guiding all aspects of the people function and processes, including recruitment, employee engagement, compensation, benefits, talent management, learning & development, and employee relations. Additionally, S/he will bring an infusion of focus on overall diversity of thought, background, and people into the culture and thought processes of our company.

This strategically minded leader will develop and implement people strategies, processes, and practices that will provide an environment that aligns with our mission, vision, and values. This leader will acquire a full understanding of our business and what challenges and opportunities lie ahead and will be tasked to build a function that best supports, develops, and directs our people's success. Cultivating a culture that attracts, motivates, and retains the right people is critical to EnergyCAP’s success during and beyond this rapid growth phase.

It's critical for this leader to develop strong relationships with their colleagues and implement processes and systems that will establish stronger organizational capabilities to enable rapid growth through both organic and M&A activities. This leader should understand the proper priorities on what delivers the most impact and will design and implement people practices that drive performance, results, and work satisfaction.

 

Responsibilities

 

The Responsibilities

  • Work closely with the leadership team to understand business objectives and challenges, and then establish people practices that best support those objectives and deliver results.

  • Collaborate with functional leaders to develop and deploy a fun and performance-based culture of innovation, accountability, results, and impact. “Work Hard, Play Hard, and have Fun doing it!”

  • Design and deploy a workforce planning model in conjunction with business input that supports consistent and scalable company growth and company performance.

  • Design, deliver, and facilitate thoughtful, engaging, and relevant development programs for management, leadership, onboarding, and DE&I that are customized to the needs of the growing organization and align with business priorities.

  • Attend and present at Board of Directors meetings regarding our people strategies, growth enablement, employee retention, and related operational performance.

  • Foster and maintain a deep understanding of our culture. Act as the lead brand ambassador ensuring that our mission, vision, and values are understood and incorporated into everything that we do.

  • Respond to and resolve sensitive employee relations matters in a prompt, effective, and respectful manner.

  • Establish specific and simple talent strategies and processes needed to achieve organizational objectives. Ensure talent needs across the company are met to build capabilities and address shortcomings.

  • In conjunction with business leadership, build scorecards for each role with clear outcomes and measures of success. Define career paths with articulated milestones and metrics in support of performance management, career development, and succession planning.

  • Make our company a preferred employer “Best Place to Work”, where people feel heard and valued. Create robust and energizing ‘employee communications’ that exist at all levels of the organization. Evaluate and employ effective total rewards practices— ensuring effective HR technology is provided.

 

Qualifications

 

The Experience

  • Must have a track record of success in job performance, demonstrating the ability to partner with senior level executives to achieve business objectives through the use of HR strategies, operations and tactics.

  • Experience implementing state of the art people practices, policies, programs, and processes that create value.

  • Experience in environments going through significant change (mergers, acquisitions, high growth, leadership upgrades, etc.).

  • Built effective talent acquisition strategy around a new workforce plan, ensuring talent pipelines, active and passive recruiting implemented, and remote work model.

  • Demonstrated ability to assess, acquire, retain, and develop HR talent needed to support an evolving business.

  • At least 10 years of relevant HR leadership experience with significant depth across the various functional disciplines.

  • 3-5 years of experience leading an HR function.

  • Experience in a relatable industry is a plus.

  • Bachelor’s degree in business, Human Resources, or related discipline. Advanced degree and/or certifications preferred.

 

Person

 

The Person

The successful candidate must bring a high level of intellectual curiosity, professionalism, ethical principles and personal values to the company, including but not limited to:

  • A collaborative style with the ability to influence the CEO and Senior Leadership Team in support of achieving the company's goals.

  • A data and metrics driven mind-set with the ability to objectively assess and validate various perspectives.

  • An ability to work in a fast-paced business environment where a roll-up-your-sleeves approach is often needed.

  • An assertive but respectful demeanor with the courage to push back and drive change in an honest, candid, and non-political manner.

  • An elevated level of self-awareness and EQ, enabling relationship building across a broad range of employee backgrounds — navigating and evolving culture.

  • Being a strong communicator with high energy and a hands-on management style, working with all levels of the organization to drive professional development, high performance, and continuous improvement.

  • Exceptional skills at balancing and managing evolving organizational objectives and priorities.

  • A strategic mindset, possessing exceptional interpersonal and communication skills — effectively building relationships, engaging resources, and influencing the entire organization in key people initiatives.

  • A background in developing teams and leaders throughout an organization through coaching, challenging, and motivating to higher achievement.

  • A thought-partnership approach to building relationships and optimizing the climate for sharing of ideas, decision alignment, and successful business results.

 

More

 

Interested in Learning More?

Joe Gonzalez

888-234-8644

jgonzalez@bcasearch.com