Chief Strategy & Growth Officer

Gebhart Holdings • Wabash, IN

4d • Onsite

About The Position

The CSO of Gebhart Holdings serves as a core strategic partner to the CEO and the senior leadership team. Responsible for shaping, driving, and coordinating the company’s long-term strategy, operational growth initiatives, and data-driven decision-making across Finance, Operations, and Commercial functions. This leader will ensure the company captures, integrates, and distills key financial, operational, and production data into clear insights and actionable plans. As the enterprise grows, it will provide oversight and disciplined execution needed to scale safely and profitably.

Requirements

• 10+ years of manufacturing leadership experience.
• Strong experience with production, financial, and operational metrics.
• Strong experience with production, financial, and operational metrics.
• Deep understanding of inventory management, throughput, and cost drivers.
• Strong financial acumen.
• Lean/Six Sigma or similar experience.
• Excellent communication and executive presence.
• Regular and timely attendance is an expectation of the position.
• Follow the 5S foundations for deploying lean production tools and processes.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in aluminum/metals/recycling, preferred.
• Background in ERP/MES/BI systems integration, preferred.
• Experience with M&A, expansions, or transformational scaling, preferred.
• MBA or advanced degree preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead long-term strategic planning aligned with growth projects.
• Serve as an integrator across Finance, Operations, and Commercial.
• Act as trusted advisor to the CEO.
• Develop a unified enterprise data framework.
• Ensure system integration across ERP/MES/production data.
• Create dashboards and reporting tools.
• Translate data into actionable recommendations.
• Partner with COO to improve yield, uptime, quality, and throughput.
• Champion lean manufacturing and continuous improvement.
• Ensure scaling plans align with plant capacity and constraints.
• Align commercial decisions with operational and financial realities.
• Support strategic customers and market initiatives.
• Evaluate new growth opportunities, product lines, and expansions.
• Partner with CFO on scenario modeling, cost structures, and capital allocation.
• Support capital investment planning.
• Lead cross-functional performance and cost reviews.
• Build cross-functional accountability and communication.
• Support evolution of leadership team.
• Foster culture of data-driven decision-making and continuous improvement.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior