CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER (CEO)
Global Marine & Industrial Services Company
Executive Search | Confidential Opportunity
Industry: Marine Services, Industrial Maintenance, Infrastructure & Asset Integrity
Reports To: Board of Directors
Position Type: Full-Time Executive Leadership
Executive Opportunity
A well-established international marine and industrial services organization is seeking a transformational Chief Executive Officer to lead its next phase of operational improvement, financial performance, and strategic expansion.
The company operates in specialized, mission-critical service markets supporting commercial marine operators, offshore energy, industrial infrastructure, and other asset-intensive industries.
With an established international operating footprint, experienced technical workforce, long-standing customer relationships, and a recognized market presence, the organization offers a compelling opportunity for an accomplished executive to create significant enterprise value.
This opportunity requires a hands-on, commercially minded executive who combines operational discipline with strategic vision and has demonstrated success leading complex, multi-location businesses
Position Summary
The Chief Executive Officer will have full responsibility for the company's financial, operational, commercial, and organizational performance.
The successful candidate must be comfortable operating in a highly accountable, board-directed environment where financial transparency, execution discipline, and measurable business results are essential.
Key Responsibilities
1. Financial Performance
- Lead a comprehensive assessment of company operations, financial performance, organizational structure, and commercial effectiveness.
- Establish disciplined financial management practices focused on EBITDA
- Strengthen revenue quality, pricing discipline, and contract profitability
- Establish measurable financial and operating KPIs with clear executive accountability.
2. Strategic Growth & Enterprise Value Creation
- Identify opportunities to expand market share across existing customer segments and adjacent service markets.
- Strengthen the company's commercial organization, including business development, account management, sales leadership, and strategic customer relationships.
- Develop a disciplined approach to major-account penetration, cross-selling, and international customer development.
- Evaluate opportunities for geographic expansion, strategic partnerships, and complementary acquisitions.
- Build scalable operating systems and management infrastructure capable of supporting significant growth.
- Balance growth investment with profitability
3. Global Operational Leadership
- Provide executive oversight of a geographically dispersed international services organization.
- Improve operating efficiency, workforce productivity, resource utilization, and project execution.
- Standardize operating procedures, reporting systems, quality management, and performance measurement across business units.
- Evaluate the company's geographic footprint to ensure alignment with customer demand and profitability objectives.
- Improve coordination between commercial teams, field operations, finance, and regional management.
- Drive continuous improvement in project planning, scheduling, equipment utilization, procurement, and service delivery.
- Maintain the highest standards of health, safety, environmental compliance, and operational risk management.
- Build an operating model that supports profitable expansion without compromising service quality or safety.
4. Executive Leadership & Organizational Transformation
- Recruit, develop, and retain high-performing leaders across finance, operations, commercial development, and regional management.
- Establish clear decision-making authority, performance expectations, and accountability.
- Create a culture of ownership, transparency, urgency, and continuous improvement.
- Improve communication and alignment across international business units.
- Develop leadership development initiatives.
Candidate Qualifications
Required Experience
- Minimum 15 years of progressive leadership experience, including significant senior executive responsibility.
- Demonstrated success as a CEO, President, CCO, Division President, or equivalent senior operating executive.
- Proven experience leading a business revenue growth
- Substantial P&L responsibility within a complex, multi-location operating business.
- Experience managing businesses with annual revenue of at least $50M, with a strong preference for experience scaling operations beyond $100M.
- Strong financial acumen, including EBITDA management, working capital optimization, cash forecasting, and capital allocation.
- Experience leading international or geographically dispersed operations.
- Demonstrated ability to build and execute commercial growth strategies.
- Experience reporting to an active Board of Directors, financial sponsors, or institutional stakeholders.
- Strong track record of executive team development and organizational transformation.
Preferred Industry Background
Candidates may come from one or more of the following sectors:
- Marine and maritime services
- Offshore energy and subsea technology
- Industrial maintenance and field services
- Asset integrity, inspection, and technical services
- Energy infrastructure services
- Port, terminal, and vessel support services
- Specialized engineering and project services
- Industrial technology-enabled services
Experience in highly technical, safety-sensitive, labor-intensive, and internationally distributed service businesses is particularly desirable.
Preferred Additional Experience
- Private equity-backed
- Buy-and-build growth strategies
- Multi-country operations
- Commercial transformation and strategic account development.
- ERP implementation, financial reporting modernization, and operational KPI development.
The Opportunity
This position offers an experienced executive the opportunity to lead a recognized international services platform through a pivotal phase of transformation.
The successful candidate will inherit an established operating business with meaningful customer relationships, technical capabilities, and significant opportunities for improvement and expansion.
This is a unique opportunity for a proven transformational leader to take full ownership of a global operating platform, deliver measurable financial improvement, and create significant long-term enterprise value.