Cora Group Leader

Job Description:
About CORA Group/ Jonas Software

CORA Group (Collective Organization Redefining Advancement) operates as a portfolio within Jonas Software, positioned within North America to the Collection & Recovery, Food Service, Construction, Wine/Retail, Moving & Storage, Loyalty, Legal, and Long-Term Care Pharmacy industries. Adding to its 1000 employees, CORA is continuously expanding through acquisitions. CORA was formally launched in 2022 in order to better position themselves with an emphasis on employee culture while accelerating growth through acquisition and investing in the long-term.

Jonas Software is the leading provider of enterprise management software solutions. Within these vertical markets, Jonas is made up of over 130 distinct brands, which are respected and leaders within their own domain. Jonas’ vision is to be the global leader across the vertical markets and to be recognized by customers and respective industry stakeholders as the trusted provider of ‘Software for Life’ and as an ambassador for technology, product innovation, quality, and customer service.

Together, we are the valued technology partner of over 60,000 customers worldwide in more than 30 countries. Jonas is headquartered in Canada and operates offices throughout North America, the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia New Zealand, and Africa. Jonas is a 100% owned subsidiary of Constellation Software Inc., headquartered in Toronto and traded on the S&P/TSX 60.

Position Specification

Group Leader will be responsible for five to seven business units within the CORA Group. Growth of your team and operational excellence are the key focus areas. These focal areas will require attention and activities to increase knowledge transfer and guidance for the business unit leaders and their direct managers. Forward-looking strategic structural planning and implementation to support these growth areas. In addition, you may be required to take on an Integration Manager role to oversee business integration activities for newly acquired entities in the market. This person will report to the Portfolio Manager of the businesses.

Major accountabilities summarized as follows:

- Manage a group of companies in line with the strategy of CORA Group.
- Coach business unit leaders in company best practices and help them achieve mastery within their respective domain.
- Maintain operational excellence and focus on delivering ratios in accordance with CORA best practices.

Culture

CORA Group has a unique and extremely decentralized structure with short reporting lines and fast decision-making procedures. Executives are light touch, high in impact when it comes to implementing practices within their respective business units. Ownership is characterized by a perpetual horizon, combined with a healthy focus on underlying profitability.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Provide strategic leadership, vision, direction and coaching to various businesses we own and acquire within a portfolio of businesses.
- Provide support to our Business Unit Leaders through mentoring and idea sharing across the group.
- Function as a change agent for the businesses we acquire as we seek to add significant value through the introduction of our global best practices.
- Operate as the integration manager for any acquisitions within the portfolio, responsible for the commercial and back-office components of our integration activities.
- Chair / Attend Senior Management Team meetings of your portfolio business.’
- Lead group financial and strategic reporting activities on a weekly and quarterly basis.
- Analyse business specific vertical markets, competitors, win/loss reasons to identify ideal customer and maximize pricing and growth opportunities.
- Ensure alignment of each business and functional department’s KPI’s with corporate targets, and professionally develop each functional leader to embrace and execute best practices in the market.
- Ensure a strong talent management process is adopted to attract and retain talent, ensure strong employee engagement, put in place succession plans to manage risks, embrace scalability, and harvest up-and-coming talent.
- Tracking & reporting - conduct weekly, monthly, and quarterly meetings to promote teamwork, align priorities, and strive for strong ongoing performance improvement, forecasting accuracy and data integrity.
- Provide quarterly analysis of ongoing business performance.

JOB QUALIFICATIONS:

- Strong leadership experience with the ability to lead change and take others with you, while not being afraid to make bold decisions.
- Exemplary interpersonal skills with both internal and external stakeholders
- Experience in a fast-paced technical environment where change is the norm.
- Prior software experience, preferably as a director or Senior operational role
- Strong understanding of accounting and business principals and strategies
- Experience in driving senior level management teams both strategically and tactically.
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