Managing Director - Outpace Professional Services (OPS)
Job Fit Check
Base Career helps you apply smarter for this job.
Key skills for this role
About the Role
Outpace Professional Services is seeking a Managing Director to scale a multi-practice professional services firm. The role involves building management systems, driving portfolio performance, integrating acquisitions, and leading practice leaders.
Key Skills for This Role
Responsibilities
- Own portfolio level performance across current and future practices
- Translate growth strategy and acquisition roadmap into practical operating plans
- Help each practice mature from founder led execution into scalable professional services practice
- Prepare OPS to integrate new practices, founders, teams, clients, systems, and financial controls
- Run weekly and monthly management rhythm across practice reviews, pipeline/revenue reviews, delivery reviews, etc.
- Ensure work is scoped, staffed, managed, tracked, and escalated consistently across practices
- Provide senior coverage for important clients, vendors, and ecosystem partners
- Ensure the business uses the right systems of record for projects, delivery, timesheets, reporting, etc.
- Recruit, manage, and coach practice leaders
- Reduce founder operational load by creating clean decision memos, dashboards, escalation rules, etc.
Requirements
- Deep experience scaling professional services firms (consulting, systems integration, ERP/CRM implementation, legal/corporate services, advisory, or multi practice services)
- Experience owning a meaningful P&L, business unit, region, or operating platform with accountability for revenue, margin, delivery, client outcomes, and leadership performance
- Track record of helping entrepreneurial or founder led organizations mature into disciplined operating companies
- Strong acquisition integration instincts
- Commercial credibility with senior clients, vendors, investors, and practice leaders
- Comfort with ERP, CRM, project systems, dashboards, operating metrics, financial controls, and executive communication
- High ownership, low ego, direct communication style
Full Job Posting
Role Overview
- Outpace Professional Services (OPS) is building a multi practice professional services platform across business systems, legal and corporate services, advisory, and future service areas
- Looking for a Managing Director to become the senior operating leader responsible for scaling OPS from a founder led services company into a disciplined, multi practice professional services firm
- Will own the operating layer between executive strategy and day to day practice execution
Key Responsibilities
- Multi Practice P&L Leadership: Own portfolio level performance across current and future practices
- Growth Strategy: Translate growth strategy and acquisition roadmap into practical operating plans
- Practice Scaling: Help each practice mature from founder led execution into scalable professional services practice
- Acquisition Integration: Prepare OPS to integrate new practices, founders, teams, clients, systems, financial controls, and reporting standards
- Operating Cadence: Run weekly and monthly management rhythm across practice reviews, pipeline/revenue reviews, delivery reviews, client escalation reviews, finance/admin exception reviews, and executive scorecards
- Delivery Governance: Ensure work is scoped, staffed, managed, tracked, and escalated consistently across practices
- Client and Vendor Relationships: Provide senior coverage for important clients, vendors, and ecosystem partners
- Systems Discipline: Ensure the business uses the right systems of record for projects, delivery, timesheets, reporting, accounting workflows, support/helpdesk, purchasing, and execution management
- Leadership Development: Recruit, manage, and coach practice leaders
- Founder Leverage: Reduce founder operational load by creating clean decision memos, dashboards, escalation rules, meeting cadences, and owner/date/action follow through
Ideal Profile
- Deep experience scaling professional services firms, ideally across consulting, systems integration, ERP/CRM implementation, legal/corporate services, advisory, or multi practice services organizations
- Experience owning a meaningful P&L, business unit, region, or operating platform with accountability for revenue, margin, delivery, client outcomes, and leadership performance
- Track record of helping entrepreneurial or founder led organizations mature into disciplined operating companies without creating unnecessary bureaucracy
- Strong acquisition integration instincts, including ability to assess operating gaps, integrate teams, professionalize reporting, and protect value of relationships
- Commercial credibility with senior clients, vendors, investors, and practice leaders
- Comfort with ERP, CRM, project systems, dashboards, operating metrics, financial controls, and executive communication
- High ownership, low ego, direct communication style, and ability to bring calm discipline into fast moving ambiguity
First 90 Days
- Map current OPS operating reality including revenue by practice, margin, pipeline, delivery capacity, leadership ownership, client risk, systems maturity, finance/admin exceptions, and acquisition readiness gaps
- Define practice operating model including P&L ownership, reporting lines, scorecards, weekly cadence, escalation thresholds, and decision rights
- Create executive dashboard covering revenue, gross margin, utilization/capacity, pipeline, project health, client escalations, acquisition/integration priorities, cash/admin risks, hiring needs, and system reliability
- Identify top operating constraints preventing OPS from scaling into multi practice platform and assign owner/date/action plans
- Clarify which workflows belong in core operating systems, which belong in CRM, and which should remain in communication or knowledge management tools
12 Month Outcomes
- OPS has a working multi practice management model with named leaders, P&L accountability, growth targets, and weekly operating cadence
- Each practice has a clear commercial offer architecture, delivery model, staffing plan, margin view, and long term growth path
- Company can integrate new practices or acquired businesses without reinventing systems, reporting, accountability, or delivery governance each time
- Client outcomes and delivery quality are managed through consistent project controls, staffing visibility, status cadence, and escalation discipline
- Executive leadership has better visibility, fewer operational escalations, and more leverage because the Managing Director owns the management system and leadership layer
Apply for this job in 1 click
Skip the repetitive application forms
Install the Base Career Chrome Extension and autofill job applications across major job boards with your profile.
Trusted by over 500,000 job seekers on Base Career
More from this employer
More jobs at Outpace Professional Services
Marketing Operations / Campaign Coordinator
Dubai, UAE
Outpace Professional Services is hiring a Marketing Operations / Campaign Coordinator to manage campaign execution, asset organization, and reporting. The role involves coordinating email, webinars, landing pages, events
Growth Lead / Demand Generation Lead
Dubai, UAE
Outpace Professional Services is hiring a Growth Lead / Demand Generation Lead to build the pipeline creation engine across Business Systems and Advisory. This role owns demand generation strategy, campaign execution, fu
Product / Vertical Marketing Lead
Dubai, UAE
Outpace Professional Services is hiring Product / Vertical Marketing Leads to own positioning, messaging, sales enablement, and launch narratives for major business branches. The role requires B2B product marketing exper
Chief Financial Officer
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Outpace Professional Services is seeking a Chief Financial Officer to lead financial strategy, capital planning, M&A finance, treasury, and investor reporting. The role requires a senior finance leader with multi-entity,
Content / Customer Proof Function
Dubai, UAE
Outpace Professional Services is looking for a B2B storyteller to build customer proof content including case studies, customer stories, and sales assets. The role works with Sales, Delivery, and Marketing teams to extra
AI Ops / AI Engineering Manager
Dubai, UAE
Outpace is hiring an AI Ops / AI Engineering Manager to lead the internal AI engineering function, turning AI from scattered tools into a governed operating system. This hands-on leadership role involves owning the AI ro
AI Engineer
, UAE
Outpace Professional Services is hiring AI Engineers to build internal AI systems, agents, and workflow automations. You will design, build, deploy, and maintain AI agents, copilots, and productivity tools using Python,
Marketing Operations / Campaign Coordinator
Dubai, UAE
Growth Lead / Demand Generation Lead
Dubai, UAE
Product / Vertical Marketing Lead
Dubai, UAE
Chief Financial Officer
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Content / Customer Proof Function
Dubai, UAE
AI Ops / AI Engineering Manager
Dubai, UAE
AI Engineer
, UAE