George Glaros

About George Glaros

PEOPLE FOCUS, ORGANIZATIONAL GROWTH, AND OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE I am a versatile Operations Executive who excels at turning around underperforming organizations to deliver margins, contain costs, and drive profit across diverse industry sectors. Throughout my career, I’ve been sought out based on my success in being passionate about prioritizing people, leading proactively, and safeguarding business interests to ensure consistent results while cultivating future leaders through servant leadership, and fostering high-performing teams aligned with company objectives.I’m recognized as skilled in leading startups, turnarounds, and growth-oriented organizations to achieve positive cash flow and maximize profit. I have extensive experience building and sustaining strong relationships with senior leaders and stakeholders for ongoing success. “A great plan is useless without proper execution.”Specialties include: Margin Growth | Quality Transformation | Revenue Acceleration | People-Focused Management | Operations Leadership | Business Performance | Project Management | Operational Efficiency | Turnarounds | Strategic Planning | Problem-Solving | Process Improvement | Change Management | Risk Mitigation | Finance & Accounting | Performance Management | Team Development & Leadership | Sales | Marketing | Community Relations

Experience

1. Operations Manager

   Carrier

   Nov 2020 — Present · Minneapolis, MN, US

   Currently spearheading $20M P&L for building automation, lighting control, and energy management systems, ensuring quality delivery. Led cross-functional teams overseeing operations, sales, finance, HR, safety, and compliance, emphasizing customer engagement and meticulous project execution. Focused on each customer with individual, customized efforts and regained their trust and confidence. Continued business with clients, two of whom became raving fans and now solely source the product. Reversed weak margins in the controls division, elevating project management and engineering, making staff changes, and directing training, resulting in 25% increased margins and doubling of revenue in fewer than three years.

Education

• Keller Graduate School of Management of DeVry University

  MBA, Marketing

  2001 — 2010

• Youngstown State University

  BA, Political Science & Business

Skills

• Process Improvement
• Management
• Team Building
• Networking
• Crm
• Business Development
• Marketing Communications
• Time Management
• Competitive Analysis
• Contract Negotiation
• Start-Ups
• Telecommunications
• Vendor Management
• Product Management
• Marketing Management
• P&L Management
• Market Research
• Human Resources
• Executive Management
• Solution Selling
• Business Planning
• Operations Management
• Integrated Marketing
• Strategic Partnerships
• Account Management
• Marketing
• Advertising
• B2b
• Leadership
• Budgets
• Training
• Customer Satisfaction
• New Business Development
• Strategic Planning
• Sales Operations
• Enterprise Software
• Strategy
• E-Commerce
• Customer Service
• Sales Management