President Essential Industries
Simfront Simulation Systems Corporation
President Essential Industries
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Job type
- Full-time
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About Calian
At Calian, we help organizations overcome obstacles, manage risks, and drive progress. Since 1982, we’ve grown from a small consulting firm into a trusted global company across defence, space, health, nuclear energy, public safety, and government.
We create innovative solutions that tackle complex challenges and help organizations and communities stay resilient, informed, and connected. If you’re driven by purpose and energized by solving real-world challenges, we want you on our team.
Job Type: Full Time
Position Overview
We are looking for a President, Essential Services to lead a newly integrated business unit spanning Health, Nuclear, and IT Professional Services. This full P&L leadership role offers the opportunity to drive strategy, growth, and operational excellence across a complex, multi-service portfolio. Reporting to the CEO, you will act as both a builder and an operator—delivering results today while shaping the next phase of growth for Essential Services.
Responsibilities
What You’ll Own
- Growth, profitability, and operational performance
- Full P&L accountability for Essential Services
- Leadership across Health, Nuclear, and IT Professional Services
- Integration of teams, operating models, and go-to-market
- Strengthening the team, working relationships and succession
- Executive engagement with the CEO, the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) and the Board
What You’ll Do
Drive Growth & Strategy
- Set and execute a clear, multi-year strategy for Essential Services
- Deliver organic growth and margin expansion
- Identify and lead strategic investments and M&A opportunities
- Strengthening market positioning across public and private sector clients
- Lead a complex, regulated portfolio with strong operational rigor
- Drive forecasting accuracy, performance management, and accountability
- Ensure consistent delivery, quality, and client experience
- Bring cohesion across business lines and enable a stronger “One Calian” approach
- Align operating models, processes, and governance to support scale
- Lead targeted transformation to modernize how the business runs
- Build, align, and elevate a high-performing leadership team
- Strengthening succession, accountability, and execution discipline
- Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, and performance
- Partner closely with the CEO and executive team on enterprise priorities
- Interface with the Board on performance, strategy, and growth
- Maintain senior client relationships and support key pursuits
Qualifications
- 15+ years of leadership experience in large, complex organizations
- Proven track record of delivering growth, operational performance, and transformation
- Demonstrated P&L ownership of a sizable business unit or portfolio
- Ability to lead across multiple services, business lines, or domains
- Executive presence with experience engaging CEO and Board-level stakeholders
- Strong commercial and financial acumen, including exposure to M&A
- Builder and operator mindset, able to scale and transform while delivering results
- Ability to create clarity in complex environments and drive execution with pace
- Systems thinking mindset, connecting strategy, operations, and people
- Experience in relevant sectors such as:
- Healthcare
- Nuclear or regulated environments
- IT/professional services
- Ability to lead through complexity, integration, and change
- Strong collaboration, communication, and people leadership skills
Compensation
Competitive and commensurate with experience
Position Type
We have 1 available position.
At Calian, we do not use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to screen or evaluate candidates. AI tools may support backend administrative tasks, but they do not influence hiring decisions. All evaluations and decisions are made by real people on our recruitment team and hiring managers. All applicants are reviewed and only those chosen for an interview will be contacted by our recruiting team.