Situation
The company had demand and growth opportunity, but the operating model was not converting commercial activity into profitable, repeatable execution. Leadership needed an independent, board-level view of the issues constraining margin, accountability, reporting, and scale readiness.
The challenge
Gross margin was materially below expectation.
Commercial execution, quote conversion, and lead follow-up lacked consistent cadence and accountability.
Project managers were carrying too many commercial, execution, purchasing, and exception-management responsibilities.
Management reporting outside accounting was too limited to control job economics and operating exceptions.
Organizational infrastructure had not scaled with the business.
What was done
Synthesized leadership concerns into a board-level operating assessment.
Identified the economic, organizational, commercial, and management-control issues driving underperformance.
Recommended a rapid margin diagnostic across pricing, estimating, labor, material markups, and change-order discipline.
Created a performance roadmap covering weekly operating cadence, procurement centralization, controller-level support, commercial ownership, dashboards, cross-training, and working-capital support.
Outcome
Clarified the operating-system problem behind margin leakage and inconsistent execution.
Prioritized immediate actions to improve accountability, recover margin, and strengthen management visibility.
Gave leadership a roadmap for turning commercial activity into profitable execution.
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