Vice President of Sales

Kelso Building Services • Phoenix, AZ

12h • Hybrid

About The Position

This is a builder's role. The Vice President of Sales owns the full sales engine for Kelso Building Services — new business, existing account growth, national accounts, critical environments, and building automation — and is responsible for turning a collection of strong regional sales efforts into a disciplined, scalable, high-performing organization. Kelso Building Services is the service division of Kelso Industries. We sit at roughly $50M in service revenue today, and we're planning to be at $100M within 12 months and $250M within three years — primarily through organic growth, with M&A as a future possibility rather than an active assumption. We're looking for a sales leader who can set the strategy, build the bench, and drive the numbers without losing the relationship-first, plainspoken culture that makes Kelso different. A central piece of this strategy is the Kelso flywheel: converting projects sold by our sister companies into long-term preventative maintenance agreements (PMAs) under Kelso Building Services. Every install our sister brands complete is a future PMA opportunity, and the VP of Sales is the leader who turns that mechanic into a repeatable, measurable engine. Reporting to the Senior Vice President of Service, Kelso Industries, this leader is a core member of the Kelso Building Services leadership team. The right person is equal parts strategist, operator, and coach — someone who can talk to a CFO about margin and a service tech about a customer, in the same hour, without missing a beat.

Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive B2B sales experience, with at least 5 years leading multi-team sales organizations through directors and managers.
• Proven track record of building and scaling sales organizations in commercial HVAC, mechanical, MEP, facility services, or a closely related industry.
• Demonstrated success owning the full sales cycle — new business, account growth, and national accounts — and hitting aggressive multi-million-dollar revenue and margin targets.
• Experience scaling a sales organization through a meaningful growth curve (for example, doubling or tripling revenue within a few years) without losing operational discipline.
• P&L or budget ownership experience at the sales organization level, including comp plan design, quota setting, and forecasting accountability to executive leadership.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen; able to balance growth, margin, and operational deliverability.
• Strong coach and developer of talent, with a demonstrated track record of building leadership benches.
• Excellent executive presence and the ability to communicate clearly with customers, peers, and senior leadership — in plain English, without corporate hedging.
• Extensive Salesforce experience, including using it as a primary tool for pipeline management, forecasting, reporting, and team accountability.

Nice To Haves

• Experience selling into Critical Environments — data centers, healthcare, life sciences, pharma, semiconductor, or similar mission-critical verticals.
• Experience in a multi-site, multi-brand, or PE-backed platform environment.
• Familiarity with preventative maintenance agreement (PMA) sales motions and service contract economics, including project-to-PMA conversion plays.
• Direct experience with building automation systems (BAS), controls, or energy services sales.
• Experience with modern sales enablement, forecasting, and BI tooling layered on top of Salesforce.
• Bachelor's degree preferred; an exceptional track record of operating at this level can substitute for formal education.

Responsibilities

• Develop and own the overall sales strategy, game plan, and roadmap to take Kelso Building Services from $50M to $100M in 12 months and $250M within three years.
• Set annual and multi-year revenue targets, pipeline goals, and KPIs by segment, market, and team.
• Build, mentor, and retain a high-performing sales leadership team; drive a culture of accountability, coaching, and results.
• Partner with the SVP of Service on strategic initiatives, capital allocation discussions, and cross-company growth opportunities.
• Own deal governance for the sales organization — pricing authority, approval thresholds, escalation paths, and deal desk discipline.
• Own the strategic motion of converting projects sold by Kelso Industries sister companies into long-term preventative maintenance agreements under Kelso Building Services.
• Build the handoff process from sister-company project closeout to KBS Account Management or National Accounts, including system-of-record handoff, customer introduction, and timing of the PMA conversation.
• Establish a target conversion rate — percent of completed sister-company projects converted to KBS PMAs within a defined window — and report on it monthly to Kelso Industries leadership.
• Make the flywheel visible: build reporting that shows sister companies the downstream PMA revenue their projects generate, so the motion compounds on itself.
• Lead the Director of Business Development and the broader BD team in winning new customers, preventative maintenance agreements, and long-term service relationships.
• Define target segments, pursuit strategies, and pricing approaches that maximize win rates and margin.
• Ensure a healthy, well-managed pipeline with disciplined Salesforce hygiene, forecasting, and conversion metrics.
• Lead the Director of Account Management in growing wallet share within existing customers and capturing every reasonable dollar of available work.
• Drive a customer-first service model that ensures clients are completely taken care of, retained, and expanded year over year.
• Implement account planning, QBRs, and customer health metrics across the portfolio.
• Lead the Director of National Accounts in owning all multi-state customer relationships and delivering a consistent, premium experience across geographies.
• Serve as the primary KBS interface with Kelso Industries sister companies for joint pursuits, referrals, and flywheel conversions.
• Build the structure, tools, and playbooks needed to scale national accounts as Kelso Building Services grows from $50M toward $250M.
• Stand up and lead Kelso Building Services' Critical Environments sales motion — data centers, healthcare, life sciences, labs, pharma, semiconductor, and other mission-critical verticals where uptime, SLAs, and credentialing drive the buy.
• Recruit and develop the Director of Critical Environments; define the segment strategy, target customer list, partnership model, and pursuit playbook.
• Build pricing, contracting, and service-level frameworks appropriate to critical environment customers, in close partnership with operations and finance.
• Build out the BAS Sales function in partnership with operations; recruit and develop the BAS sales leader.
• Define the BAS go-to-market strategy, including target verticals, controls partnerships, and integration with core MEP+ and service offerings.
• Own (or build, where it doesn't yet exist) the sales operations function: territory design, quota setting, comp plan administration, dashboards, forecasting cadence, and Salesforce administration.
• Champion the use of Salesforce, sales analytics, and BI tooling to drive data-informed decisions and enforce pipeline and forecasting discipline across the organization.
• Design and maintain compensation packages for sales positions across the organization, in alignment with corporate HR and the Total Rewards Director, ensuring plans are competitive, equitable, and tied to business outcomes.
• Partner with Operations leadership to ensure sold work is profitable, deliverable, and aligned with capacity — including the Inside Sales and estimating function that supports frontline sales velocity.
• Partner with Marketing on demand generation, lead handoff, content, customer references, and brand presence in target markets.
• Work with Finance on pricing, margin management, commission accruals, and revenue forecasting.
• Represent Kelso Building Services with key customers, industry partners, and within the Kelso Industries family of companies.

Benefits

• competitive executive compensation package including base salary
• performance-based incentive compensation tied to revenue and profitability targets
• long-term incentive participation appropriate to the role
• comprehensive benefits

What This Job Offers

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