McCarthy Holdings, Inc.
Senior Vice President, Marketing
– McCarthy Holdings Inc.
Location: Dallas, Texas (with flexibility for remote work and regional presence)
Reports to: Chief Operating Officer
Opportunity Here's what makes this role rare: you get to design and build the marketing function you wish you'd had at every previous company.
McCarthy Holdings is one of the largest employee‑owned construction companies in North America, ranked #12 on the ENR Top 400 list. For 160+ years, we've built projects that matter. Now we're ready to apply that same intentionality to building a world‑class marketing organization.
What you're walking into: A company with strong brand equity, healthy business pipeline, talented team, and complete leadership alignment on what marketing should become. What's missing is the strategic vision and partnership model that transforms good contributors into a high‑performing function.
The opportunity: Establish marketing as the strategic partner regional operations rely on and the C‑suite trusts. Consolidate fragmented spend, create thought leadership programs, refine brand standards, and prove marketing is an investment that pays dividends. You're architecting how marketing works in a sophisticated, decentralized organization with creative freedom, executive support, and a team ready for leadership.
Core Responsibilities
Regional Partnership & Shared Services Model: Build marketing as the strategic support system regional operations rely on through consistent value delivery, understanding business priorities, and creating shared services that balance centralized efficiency with regional autonomy.
Brand Stewardship & Standards: Refine brand standards, messaging frameworks, and visual guidelines that make good execution easier than bad execution while ensuring consistency across regions and respecting local market relevance.
External Agency & PR Management: Consolidate fragmented external marketing spend, evaluate and optimize agency relationships, establish strategic PR approach coordinating regional and corporate needs, and build partnerships that deliver measurable results.
Executive Thought Leadership & Brand Support: Create turnkey content engine that elevates C‑suite and regional leaders as industry voices through thought leadership strategy, content creation and distribution, and personal brand support.
Marketing Operations & Team Development: Build high‑performing marketing organization by assessing current structure, redesigning around value delivery, hiring for gaps, establishing performance metrics, and creating customer service culture.
Budget Management & ROI Demonstration: Manage marketing budget with financial discipline, track investment against business outcomes, identify cost optimization opportunities, and shift perception from expense center to value driver through clear measurement.
Required Qualifications Experience Profile:
12‑15 years B2B marketing leadership experience, with at least 5 years in complex organizational environments (multi‑division corporations, franchised/licensed business models, professional services firms, or highly decentralized structures)
Demonstrated success operating in matrixed organizations where influence matters more than authority
Track record establishing shared services models that balance centralized efficiency with local autonomy
Experience managing agency relationships with proven ability to consolidate fragmented spend and improve ROI
History of building high‑performing teams, including reshaping inherited organizations
Critical Capabilities:
Partnership Over Command
You instinctively ask "What do you need?" before declaring "Here's what we're doing"
Comfort with ambiguity and messiness of consensus‑building across strong personalities
Ego strength to absorb regional frustration without getting defensive
Political savvy to navigate organizational dynamics without playing politics
Patience to build trust through consistent follow‑through vs. demanding immediate compliance
Business Acumen
Deep understanding of B2B buying cycles, relationship‑based sales, and long‑term client development
Ability to speak the language of business (revenue, margins, efficiency, ROI) not just marketing metrics
Financial literacy to build business cases, manage budgets, and demonstrate value in CFO‑friendly terms
Intellectual curiosity to learn industry dynamics quickly without claiming false expertise
Strategic + Tactical Balance
Senior enough to think strategically about brand positioning, market opportunities, organizational design
Practical enough to roll up sleeves on tactical execution when needed (draft the content, fix the template, join the team meeting)
Comfort moving between 30,000‑foot strategy sessions and ground‑level problem‑solving
Recognition that earning trust through tactical value often unlocks strategic influence later
Exceptional written communication (you'll be ghostwriting executive content and crafting brand messaging)
Strong presentation skills for board meetings, regional forums, and team rallies
Active listening that makes people feel heard even when you can't give them what they want
Ability to translate between audiences: explain marketing strategy in business terms, convey regional needs in corporate language
Technical Skills:
Modern marketing technology stack (CRM integration, marketing automation, analytics platforms, content management systems)
Digital marketing fundamentals (social media strategy, paid promotion, SEO/SEM, website optimization)
Brand architecture and positioning development
PR and communications strategy (media relations, reputation management, crisis response, thought leadership)
Marketing metrics and analytics (comfort with data, ability to build dashboards, willingness to be measured)
Genuine respect for people doing hard physical work in challenging conditions
Appreciation for regional pride and autonomy as organizational strength, not obstacle
Comfort in environments where decision‑making is consultative rather than directive
Humility with a partnership mentality
Passion for building something meaningful from a strong foundation
Compensation & Benefits
Competitive Base Salary based on experience
Additional compensation details (annual performance bonus, ESOP participation, comprehensive benefits package, PTO, professional development budget, relocation assistance if applicable) will be discussed with qualified candidates.
McCarthy is 100% employee‑owned, and all employees participate in our Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), one of the most valuable benefits we offer for wealth building over a career.
About McCarthy Holdings Inc. McCarthy is one of the largest employee‑owned construction companies in North America, with 8,000+ employees and operations across multiple regions. For over 160 years, we've built complex projects that strengthen communities: hospitals, universities, water treatment facilities, commercial developments, and more. We're committed to safety, quality, employee ownership, and building careers as thoughtfully as we build projects.
Equal Opportunity Employer McCarthy is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
Seniority level Executive
Employment type Full‑time
Job function Marketing and Public Relations
Industries Construction
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– McCarthy Holdings Inc.
Location: Dallas, Texas (with flexibility for remote work and regional presence)
Reports to: Chief Operating Officer
Opportunity Here's what makes this role rare: you get to design and build the marketing function you wish you'd had at every previous company.
McCarthy Holdings is one of the largest employee‑owned construction companies in North America, ranked #12 on the ENR Top 400 list. For 160+ years, we've built projects that matter. Now we're ready to apply that same intentionality to building a world‑class marketing organization.
What you're walking into: A company with strong brand equity, healthy business pipeline, talented team, and complete leadership alignment on what marketing should become. What's missing is the strategic vision and partnership model that transforms good contributors into a high‑performing function.
The opportunity: Establish marketing as the strategic partner regional operations rely on and the C‑suite trusts. Consolidate fragmented spend, create thought leadership programs, refine brand standards, and prove marketing is an investment that pays dividends. You're architecting how marketing works in a sophisticated, decentralized organization with creative freedom, executive support, and a team ready for leadership.
Core Responsibilities
Regional Partnership & Shared Services Model: Build marketing as the strategic support system regional operations rely on through consistent value delivery, understanding business priorities, and creating shared services that balance centralized efficiency with regional autonomy.
Brand Stewardship & Standards: Refine brand standards, messaging frameworks, and visual guidelines that make good execution easier than bad execution while ensuring consistency across regions and respecting local market relevance.
External Agency & PR Management: Consolidate fragmented external marketing spend, evaluate and optimize agency relationships, establish strategic PR approach coordinating regional and corporate needs, and build partnerships that deliver measurable results.
Executive Thought Leadership & Brand Support: Create turnkey content engine that elevates C‑suite and regional leaders as industry voices through thought leadership strategy, content creation and distribution, and personal brand support.
Marketing Operations & Team Development: Build high‑performing marketing organization by assessing current structure, redesigning around value delivery, hiring for gaps, establishing performance metrics, and creating customer service culture.
Budget Management & ROI Demonstration: Manage marketing budget with financial discipline, track investment against business outcomes, identify cost optimization opportunities, and shift perception from expense center to value driver through clear measurement.
Required Qualifications Experience Profile:
12‑15 years B2B marketing leadership experience, with at least 5 years in complex organizational environments (multi‑division corporations, franchised/licensed business models, professional services firms, or highly decentralized structures)
Demonstrated success operating in matrixed organizations where influence matters more than authority
Track record establishing shared services models that balance centralized efficiency with local autonomy
Experience managing agency relationships with proven ability to consolidate fragmented spend and improve ROI
History of building high‑performing teams, including reshaping inherited organizations
Critical Capabilities:
Partnership Over Command
You instinctively ask "What do you need?" before declaring "Here's what we're doing"
Comfort with ambiguity and messiness of consensus‑building across strong personalities
Ego strength to absorb regional frustration without getting defensive
Political savvy to navigate organizational dynamics without playing politics
Patience to build trust through consistent follow‑through vs. demanding immediate compliance
Business Acumen
Deep understanding of B2B buying cycles, relationship‑based sales, and long‑term client development
Ability to speak the language of business (revenue, margins, efficiency, ROI) not just marketing metrics
Financial literacy to build business cases, manage budgets, and demonstrate value in CFO‑friendly terms
Intellectual curiosity to learn industry dynamics quickly without claiming false expertise
Strategic + Tactical Balance
Senior enough to think strategically about brand positioning, market opportunities, organizational design
Practical enough to roll up sleeves on tactical execution when needed (draft the content, fix the template, join the team meeting)
Comfort moving between 30,000‑foot strategy sessions and ground‑level problem‑solving
Recognition that earning trust through tactical value often unlocks strategic influence later
Exceptional written communication (you'll be ghostwriting executive content and crafting brand messaging)
Strong presentation skills for board meetings, regional forums, and team rallies
Active listening that makes people feel heard even when you can't give them what they want
Ability to translate between audiences: explain marketing strategy in business terms, convey regional needs in corporate language
Technical Skills:
Modern marketing technology stack (CRM integration, marketing automation, analytics platforms, content management systems)
Digital marketing fundamentals (social media strategy, paid promotion, SEO/SEM, website optimization)
Brand architecture and positioning development
PR and communications strategy (media relations, reputation management, crisis response, thought leadership)
Marketing metrics and analytics (comfort with data, ability to build dashboards, willingness to be measured)
Genuine respect for people doing hard physical work in challenging conditions
Appreciation for regional pride and autonomy as organizational strength, not obstacle
Comfort in environments where decision‑making is consultative rather than directive
Humility with a partnership mentality
Passion for building something meaningful from a strong foundation
Compensation & Benefits
Competitive Base Salary based on experience
Additional compensation details (annual performance bonus, ESOP participation, comprehensive benefits package, PTO, professional development budget, relocation assistance if applicable) will be discussed with qualified candidates.
McCarthy is 100% employee‑owned, and all employees participate in our Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), one of the most valuable benefits we offer for wealth building over a career.
About McCarthy Holdings Inc. McCarthy is one of the largest employee‑owned construction companies in North America, with 8,000+ employees and operations across multiple regions. For over 160 years, we've built complex projects that strengthen communities: hospitals, universities, water treatment facilities, commercial developments, and more. We're committed to safety, quality, employee ownership, and building careers as thoughtfully as we build projects.
Equal Opportunity Employer McCarthy is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
Seniority level Executive
Employment type Full‑time
Job function Marketing and Public Relations
Industries Construction
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