The Company

Bauer Design Build (BDB) is a rapidly growing Commercial General Contractor servicing a wide variety of projects from Industrial, Cleanroom, Multi-Family & Senior Living, Healthcare, Retail, Office, and Self-Storage. The Company offers construction renovation, new construction, land development, and feasibility studies. Located in Plymouth, MN, BDB provides comprehensive insight and management services throughout the construction process.

The Company was started by Mike Bauer in 2005 after a successful career with Ryan Companies. BDB continues to build on its established reputation, which is centered on the guiding principle of “always looking out for our client’s best interest.”

The Company is driven to provide an unmatched client experience by delivering design and construction expertise grounded in confidence, foresight, and total project accountability. The Bauer team works tirelessly to ensure clients understand all options and associated impacts, allowing them to make informed decisions about important projects. The Company is truly “transforming the construction experience” for their clients.

Bauer Design Build adheres to the following Core Values:

Client Focus: Consistently making our clients our main focus ensures that all decisions are made with their best interest in mind.

Integrity: Being fair and living up to our word.

Relationships: Respect and foster relationships with all team members while promoting their continual growth and achievement.

Leadership: Charting a clear path and guiding our team members through the development, design and construction process to ensure that the client’s vision is realized.

Transparency: Always providing our clients with fully disclosed information, while consistently promoting openness, candid communications, and accountability.

Community: Work consistently to make the communities in which we live and work a better place.

All BDB employees are challenged to identify opportunities to be active leaders in giving back to their communities through civic organizations, fundraisers, and missions that will help improve the lives of others. The Bauer team has been active with The Lions Club, Community Health Foundation of Wright County, Gilda’s Club Twin Cities, Feed My Starving Children, Plymouth Rotary Club, and several other school and community organizations.

For more information, please visit www.bauerdesignbuild.com

Position Summary

The President of BDB will be responsible for the operations of the organization in conjunction with the CEO and Executive Leadership Team. The President is ultimately responsible for the overall sustainable success of the company and the achievement of its short and long-term goals. Fundamental to the success of this position is a passion for developing and nurturing a strong team. The President is first and foremost a servant leader, a person people want to work with and learn from, who builds strong relationships, and has noticeable passion and energy.

Reports to: Mike Bauer, Founder and CEO

Direct Reports: Tom Lampe, Director of Construction

Branton Smith, Director of Pre-Construction

Lance Prescott, Chief Financial Officer

Nicole Van Heel, Human Resources Manager

Other Key Relationships: Operations Leadership Team

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Leadership

• Proactively support BDB’s mission to provide an unmatched client experience. Live within and model the Company’s values.
• Set long-range enterprise vision, strategy, and culture in collaboration with CEO and Executive Leadership Team. Provide vision, strategic acumen, transparent communication, and consistent execution.
• Lead the development and implementation of short- and long-term strategies and annual business plans to achieve and exceed established performance goals.
• Lead strategic growth, including organic growth and potential mergers & acquisitions.
• Drive innovation to ensure opportunity pipeline.
• Deliver consistent, predictable top and bottom-line results.
• Develop quarterly advisory board agenda and related content in collaboration with CEO.

Operational and Financial Leadership

• Review the Company’s P&L and balance sheet to achieve financial goals and drive operational efficiency and excellence. Balance short and long-term results among multiple stakeholders.
• Manage portfolio ensuring businesses achieve full established growth, profit, and return on invested capital objectives.
• Lead, oversee and direct Company-wide operations in alignment with strategic and financial goals.

People Leadership

• Lead, develop, support, coach, and mentor a high-performing Executive Leadership Team that embraces high expectations, is results-oriented, collaborative, creative and promotes BDB’s Mission and Core Values.
• Develop organizational talent to achieve long-range plan.
• Foster culture of belonging where people come for a job and stay because they feel valued and have an opportunity to grow.
• Establish accountability at all levels of the organization.
• Ensure adherence to the Company’s core processes.
• Embed servant leadership principles throughout the company.
• Energize and motivate people at all levels of the organization. Communicate frequently with all team members and forge bonds with all people.
• Ensure that key messages are consistently cascaded throughout the organization.

• Serve as a visible leader across the Company, personally modeling and championing the best of BDB’s culture and values while establishing and maintaining a leadership presence.

Leadership Competencies

As a leader at BDB, the President is expected to demonstrate the following leadership competencies:

Care for People: Leads with a servant’s heart and puts people first above all. Exemplifies authenticity and sincerity.

Builds Talent: Develops and maintains high-performing teams and coaches other leaders to develop their own leadership capabilities. Ensures all leaders and team members challenge and support each other while respecting others’ unique roles and contributions.

Fosters Collaboration: Creates an environment that supports collaboration by facilitating communication and coordination across all parts of the organization. Builds an intentional and cohesive culture that aligns functional agendas and unites the team.

Strategic Acumen: Understands the market, identifies trends, and drives the organization to create comprehensive, competitive and breakthrough strategies. Prioritizes strategically, leading the organization to pursue and capitalize on the best opportunities.

Sound Decision-Making: Possesses strong intellectual curiosity and the ability to analytically, conceptually and critically evaluate information to determine relative strengths and weaknesses of ideas and proposals. Comfortable managing ambiguity and balancing action with the appropriate level of risk.

Drives Results: Proactively anticipates future needs and creates a mechanism for overcoming hurdles, setting high standards for the organization, and holding others accountable. Ensures strategies are translated into measurable objectives and actionable plans.

Champions Innovation: Constructively challenges the prevailing wisdom or accepted ways of doing things. Pushes the organization to identify new approaches and uncover unconventional ideas that drive value using data and insights. Supports well-reasoned risks and new ideas. 

Ideal Candidate Profile

The ideal candidate will be a servant leader who puts others first, a person people want to work with and learn from and who models behaviors consistent with BDB’s Mission and Core Values throughout their career: a proven culture champion. The President will be relationship oriented with a collaborative mindset, a low ego, who operates with a high level of emotional intelligence. This person will be approachable and engaging, and possess outstanding communication skills, including the willingness to surface difficult issues and have courageous conversations.

The successful candidate will be a proactive and strategic business leader with superb business acumen, exceptional understanding of operational and financial strategies, and a familiarity with the construction industry. The President will have a growth mindset with the demonstrated ability to drive profitable growth, innovation, and operational excellence. They will bring an entrepreneurial, opportunistic spirit to the role.

The successful candidate will be even keeled and resilient with a proven ability to handle pressure and manage through crises. The President will also be a mission-driven leader with a desire to actively and robustly support the philanthropic work that the Bauer team does in the community.

The highest level of integrity and ethical standards are assumed.

Professional Experience

Prior experiences and successes must include:

• Strategic business leadership with a minimum of 15 years in progressive leadership and management roles.
• Effective full P&L and operational management experience in a privately held construction or building products organization with similar scope and complexity ($200-250MM revenues) or similar-sized division of a larger entity. Experience working with an engaged owner is a plus.
• History of developing actionable short- and long-term strategic plans, outlining metrics and managing to them to deliver measurable results.
• Experience rapidly scaling a company, both organically and through acquisition while maintain engagement, morale, and profit.
• Proven ability to evolve benefit programs, tools, systems, processes, and controls to drive operational excellence and support the future business growth and profitability of an organization.
• Success articulating and communicating a long-term vision for an organization, engaging the organization in the vision, and ensuring strategies and resources are in place to deliver on the vision.
• Dual ability to lead and execute/implement.
• Strong customer orientation and familiarity with BDB’s customers and business associates.
• A track record of fostering an organization to collaborate and work across functions.
• A track record of prioritizing strategic human resources practices and employee engagement.
• Bachelor’s degree in Construction or Business or a related field required.

Libby Utter

lutter@lymanexecutivesearch.com

612-670-9212

David Lyman

dlyman@lymanexecutivesearch.com

612-812-3263