General Manager, Ohio/Tennessee Branch (Nashville)

Join us as a Director, Business Management and take the helm of strategic initiatives that drive business performance and market growth. This role offers the chance to lead diverse teams, shape competitive strategies, and make decisions that create lasting organizational impact.

What will you do?

• P&L leadership for the Ohio/Tennessee branch of Digital Buildings, accountable for employee engagement and safety, customer satisfaction and retention, and long‑term, profitable growth
• Provide leadership and strategic direction to department heads overseeing the sales, operations, service, and administrative teams in the branch.
• Responsible for accurate forecasting and consistent delivery of financial results and strategic objectives, in line with annual business goals.
• Lead the development of strategic selling plans and implementation of best practices to sustain growth in the local market, organizing sales resources to maximize new customer acquisition and expansion of services in our installed‑base accounts.
• Responsible for ensuring the readiness of construction and service operations teams to successfully deliver Schneider Electric solutions and services, including consistent execution of talent development and recruiting activities.
• Ensure timely manpower forecasting and workforce management to support backlog delivery, using employee development playbooks and career paths to build a high‑performing culture.
• Conduct 1:1 meetings, jobsite visits, and town hall feedback sessions with employees and build annual action plans that consistently improve the employee experience.
• Facilitate contract negotiations, large project commercial approvals, and customer escalations.
• Collaborate with other Schneider Electric business unit leaders in‑market to cross‑sell solutions and services across the collective installed base in the region.

What are the key skills we are looking for?

• Total ownership of accurate P&L forecasting and active engagement in the delivery of financial commitments on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis.
• Demonstrated ability to translate strategic objectives into clear messages and actions for local teams. Employ change management practices that facilitate positive outcomes.
• Strong aptitude for business development, comfortable playing the external role of local executive to the market.
• Experience building relationships with executive or director‑level customers.
• Understanding the end‑to‑end delivery of construction projects and maintenance agreements to provide effective coaching and mentoring to employees.
• Model the way by leading in alignment with Schneider core values.

What's in it for me?

• The general management role is an excellent position for functional leaders in sales, operations, or service to take their career to the next level and demonstrate their ability to lead across multiple disciplines. The role should attract leaders who have proven they can build a high performing team capable of delivering strategic objectives. They are now looking for the challenge of repeating this success on a larger scale and having empowerment to make critical business decisions that shape financial results.

For this U.S. based position, the expected pay range is USD 208,000 – USD 312,000 per year. This pay range includes base pay and short‑term incentives. The compensation range for this full‑time position applies to candidates located within the United States. Our pay ranges are determined by reviewing roles of similar responsibility and level. Within the pay range, individual pay is determined by several factors including performance, knowledge, job‑related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Our Total Rewards package outlines all the benefits and support you’ll enjoy as part of the Schneider Electric team:

Care for Yourself and Your Family. We ensure you feel secure with benefits that help you and your family thrive: medical (with member reward points), dental, vision, and basic life insurance, Benefit Bucks (credits to apply towards your benefits), flexible work arrangements, paid family leaves, well‑being programs, 12 holidays per year, 20 days of paid time off per year (pro‑rated in the first year of employment based on start date).

Invest and Plan Your Future. We help you plan and invest for the future with competitive pay and programs: your base salary, short‑term incentives or sales incentives, opportunities to own company shares (eligibility depends on start date), and 401(k) + match.

Grow Your Skills and Career. We commit to helping you grow with ongoing performance and development conversations, Senior Talent Program, global career opportunities, access to our Schneider Career Hub for new positions, projects, and mentors, and learning platforms like Coursera to equip you with the skills for today and tomorrow.

Team Up in the Workplace. We encourage teaming up through project opportunities on the Schneider Career Hub, smart ways to collaborate, celebrating contributions via a recognition program (including service anniversary), sharing your voice in our engagement survey, and fostering an inclusive, caring workplace.

Support Your Community. We make a difference in your community with volunteer leave, programs through the Schneider Electric Foundation, initiatives that support youth education, and military leave benefits.

Schneider Electric aspires to be the most inclusive and caring company in the world, by providing equitable opportunities to everyone, everywhere, and ensuring all employees feel uniquely valued and safe to contribute their best. We mirror the diversity of the communities in which we operate, and ‘inclusion’ is one of our core values. We believe our differences make us stronger as a company and as individuals and we are committed to championing inclusivity in everything we do.

At Schneider Electric, we uphold the highest standards of ethics and compliance, and we believe that trust is a foundational value. Our Trust Charter is our Code of Conduct and demonstrates our commitment to ethics, safety, sustainability, quality and cybersecurity, underpinning every aspect of our business and our willingness to behave and respond respectfully and in good faith to all our stakeholders. You can find out more about our Trust Charter here.

Schneider Electric is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is our policy to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities in the areas of recruiting, hiring, training, transferring, and promoting all qualified individuals regardless of race, religion, color, gender, disability, national origin, ancestry, age, military status, sexual orientation, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristic or conduct.