VP of Sales & Operations, Leadership Development

UHP • Bentonville, AR

27d • Onsite

About The Position

UHP is building dedicated commercial and operational leadership behind its Leadership Development offering to support growing enterprise demand. The VP of Sales & Operations owns the business side of this practice end to end: strategic positioning, pipeline development, proposal and deal structuring, and the operational infrastructure that turns a signed engagement into a well-run program. This is a new, senior addition to the team, built to scale the commercial engine without pulling the existing delivery team off the work it does best. scale the commercial engine without pulling the delivery team off the work it does best.

Requirements

• Proven track record in senior-level B2B sales or business development, ideally within professional services, executive education, or leadership consulting
• Experience building or scaling a sales function, including process, pipeline management, and deal operations, from an early stage
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to build a strategic narrative for C-suite audiences
• Operational rigor and comfort owning contracting, pricing, and scheduling processes directly
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience

Nice To Haves

• Experience engaging Fortune 500 or other large enterprise clients
• Genuine passion for veteran transition and human development.
• Comfort operating outside traditional corporate, academic, or military structures.
• Willingness to build something new rather than maintain something established.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-moving, mission-driven, high-accountability environment.
• Respect for the coaching profession and elite performance culture; service-oriented leadership mindset.
• Commitment to a healthy lifestyle and to modeling the human-performance principles our trade students learn as part of the curriculum

Responsibilities

• Develop and sharpen the strategic narrative behind UHP's executive leadership development offering, and turn UHP's differentiated capabilities into materials and conversations that resonate with senior executive audiences.
• Build and run a repeatable sales process for executive sprint and executive deployment engagements, identify and cultivate new enterprise relationships, and manage opportunities from first conversation through signed agreement.
• Own proposal development, custom engagement scoping, contracting, pricing, and scheduling for on-site deployments and recurring client engagements.
• Work closely with the Leadership Development program and delivery team so commercial commitments are realistic and aligned with delivery capacity and program design.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary plus a performance-based incentive tied to new-business revenue
• 401(k)
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Paid time off
• Professional development support
• Access to UHP performance and recovery facilities

What This Job Offers

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