This is a highly visible executive leadership role with responsibility for the performance, scalability and continued development of the organization’s fulfillment business. The Vice President will initially maintain a close connection to day-to-day operations while establishing the processes, systems, leadership structure and operating discipline required to build a best-in-class fulfillment platform.
The ideal candidate combines strategic leadership with a willingness to get into the operation, understands what high-performing fulfillment looks like, and has successfully led meaningful operational transformation within a warehouse, distribution or third-party logistics environment.
An established, growing engineering consulting firm in St. Paul is seeking a Civil Project Engineer to support an expanding portfolio of public infrastructure and municipal projects throughout the Twin Cities and surrounding region.
This role is geared toward a mid-career civil engineer who enjoys remaining technically involved while gaining exposure to multiple municipalities, project types and disciplines. Projects include deep sanitary sewer systems, rehabilitation and replacement of aging infrastructure, watermain and storm sewer improvements, roadway coordination, and extensive public and private utility coordination
The firm offers a hybrid schedule, strong long-term retention, employee ownership and a base salary of approximately $100,000–$140,000 depending on experience and licensure.
SkyWater is partnering with an established manufacturer in the consumer goods space who’s looking to hire an Operations Manager for their growing team! This is a newly created role with real scope and authority, reporting directly to the President and sitting on the company leadership team. Our client has d a loyal customer base and they’ve been recognized within their industry for both product quality and service. The Operations Manager will oversee a small team (5 direct reports with 12 indirect) while working on manufacturing process improvements, overseeing scheduling, creating efficiencies, overseeing inventory and improving the overall operations for the business. Our client is offering a competitive base salary, annual bonus, strong benefits package and the opportunity to make a big impact with their small but growing business!
Preferred Hiring Locations: Sioux Falls, SD; Minneapolis Area, MN; Fargo or Grand Forks, ND Compensation: $80,000–$105,000 base salary
The Opportunity
We’re partnering with a growing sports media organization to identify a Content Partnerships Manager who can help expand its portfolio of live and on-demand sports content across linear and streaming platforms.
This is a relationship-driven, business development-focused role for someone who knows how to identify opportunities, build partnerships, negotiate deals, and turn relationships into revenue-generating content opportunities. The ideal candidate will bring a strong network and understanding of the sports industry—particularly collegiate athletics—and genuine passion for sports and media.
You’ll work directly with colleges, athletic departments, conferences, professional sports organizations, events, and other rights holders to identify and secure compelling content partnerships.
What You’ll Do
Drive business development and content acquisition by identifying, cultivating, and securing new sports content partnerships.
Build and maintain relationships with colleges, athletic departments, conferences, professional sports organizations, events, and independent rights holders.
Develop and manage a strong pipeline of prospective partners and provide regular updates to leadership.
Lead negotiations for media rights, licensing agreements, and multi-year partnerships.
Evaluate potential partnerships, including audience opportunity, financial value, strategic fit, and revenue potential.
Develop valuation models and business cases for new partnerships and existing agreements approaching renewal.
Collaborate cross-functionally with Sales, Marketing, Operations, Legal, Finance, Digital/Streaming, and other teams to bring new content partnerships to life.
Develop a proactive acquisition strategy informed by audience demand, industry trends, competitive offerings, and emerging opportunities.
Identify opportunities to grow revenue through strategic partnerships, sponsorships, and related business development initiatives.
Stay current on developments across collegiate athletics, professional sports, streaming, broadcast, and the evolving sports media landscape.
Represent the organization at campuses, conferences, industry events, and other relevant gatherings.
What We’re Looking For
The strongest candidate will bring a combination of sports industry expertise, business development experience, relationship-building skills, and commercial acumen.
5+ years of experience in business development, sales, content acquisition, media rights, sports media, collegiate athletics, or a related field.
A proven track record of building partnerships, developing new business, negotiating agreements, and closing deals.
Strong understanding of the sports media ecosystem, including streaming, broadcast, licensing, and media rights.
Deep knowledge of and genuine passion for sports, ideally with a strong understanding of collegiate athletics.
Excellent relationship-building and communication skills with the ability to build credibility with senior-level partners and rights holders.
Strong negotiation and contract management experience.
Strategic and commercially minded, with the ability to evaluate opportunities through both a content and business lens.
Comfortable operating independently, managing a pipeline, and proactively creating opportunities.
Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, communications, media, or a related field—or equivalent experience.
Why This Role?
This is an opportunity to play a meaningful role in shaping the future of a sports media platform—not simply managing existing partnerships. You’ll have the opportunity to identify new opportunities, build relationships across the sports industry, negotiate meaningful deals, and help determine what content audiences see next.
If you’re someone who lives and breathes sports, loves building relationships, and has a true business development mindset, this could be a particularly exciting opportunity.
Compensation & Benefits
The hiring range for this position is $80,000–$105,000, with the actual base salary determined by factors including internal equity, location, and the individual’s job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.
In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for an annual bonus based on company and/or individual performance.
Travel: Some travel to campuses, conferences, industry events, and partner meetings will be required. Evening and weekend work may occasionally be necessary based on business and sports schedules.
I’m thrilled to be kicking off an Accounting Manager search with a growing, PE-backed manufacturing company. I’ve known the President for years, well before he joined the organization, and I’m excited to partner with him on this hire!
The company has a long history in the Twin Cities and has maintained much of its family-owned feel while entering an exciting new phase of growth. They have been actively growing through acquisition and expect that growth to continue.
The Accounting Manager will report to the Director of Finance and have one direct report. This is a broad, hands-on role that will include month-end close, reconciliations, AP, payroll, fixed assets, financial analysis and process improvement. Over time, this person will also gain exposure to cost accounting, special projects and acquisition-related work.
What they’re looking for:
A four-year Accounting degree is required.
Strong foundational accounting skills and the ability to independently problem-solve are important.
Manufacturing experience is preferred but not required.
Previous management experience is not required.
This could be a great opportunity for a strong Senior Accountant ready to step into their first Manager role!
The role is onsite five days per week in the eastern Twin Cities metro.
Also super exciting – there is meaningful long-term growth potential as well, including a potential path to Controller!
If interested in hearing more, please reach out – CRabon@skywatersearch.com | 952.767.9025
A growing specialty manufacturer in Bloomington is seeking a Project Manager to own custom projects from purchase order through final delivery.
The company manufactures highly engineered products used in complex construction environments. Projects can remain active for 6-24 months, and the PM serves as the connective tissue between customers, independent sales representatives, contractors, engineering, production planning, and logistics.
The opportunity offers substantial autonomy, direct executive visibility, and room to grow as the company expands its project and operations organization.
A growing specialty manufacturer in Bloomington is seeking a Master Scheduler to take ownership of long-range production and capacity planning across a highly customized, engineer-to-order environment.
This is not a role centered on maintaining a static schedule. Projects can remain active for 6-24 months, customer timelines can shift, outside-vendor capacity varies, and production priorities routinely need to be re-calibrated. The Master Scheduler will become the internal authority on what the organization can realistically produce and when.
This is an opportunity to build a planning function rather than simply maintain one, with visibility into broader operations leadership as the business grows.
Our client in the consumer food manufacturing space is seeking a Senior Director of Food Safety & Quality to lead and further develop its food safety, quality, and regulatory programs.
This individual will provide both strategic leadership and hands-on operational support, partnering closely with plant operations and senior leadership to ensure food safety and quality systems are effectively designed, implemented, and executed. The role will initially maintain a close connection to day-to-day plant activities while building systems and processes that can scale across an expanding manufacturing footprint and portfolio of brands.
SkyWater has partnered with a PE-backed technology company in hiring a Senior Software Engineer to help design, build, and scale the backend systems and APIs behind its internal and customer-facing platforms. You would work in C# and .NET, build RESTful APIs against OpenAPI standards, and partner closely with both internal teams and external technology partners as the company modernizes its platform. This is a hands-on engineering role with real ownership over architecture and code quality, plus the chance to mentor other engineers as the team grows.
I’m partnered with a longtime retail client where we have placed over a dozen people to bring on an experienced IT Manager, End User Technology, to lead several talented FTEs comprised of their Support and Desktop Engineering teams.
This is an opportunity to bring greater structure and consistency to a growing company while helping shape their IT service delivery. This manager will oversee an established team while partnering closely with other technology groups to improve service delivery, processes (ITSM/ITIL), and cross-functional collaboration. This is not a traditional Help Desk Manager role. They are looking for a service-oriented IT leader who understands the operation, develops people, and has the experience to build a more mature IT service management environment.
Industry experience is flexible. Experience supporting distributed users, retail, multiple locations, or business applications is a plus.
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