Chief Executive Officer, LANGE

What You Can Expect Working in the Chief Executive Officer, LANGE Position

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of LANGE is a purpose-driven leader who stewards the overall strategic vision, direction, performance, and culture of the LANGE companies—including all subsidiaries and divisions—with discipline and a fierce resolve to build an enduring organization. Rooted in the values of LANGE and accountable to the Lange Family Council, the CEO serves as a Level 5 Leader blending personal humility with an unwavering determination to achieve exceptional results. This role ensures strategic alignment across all business units, fosters organizational growth, champions operational excellence, and builds a culture where the right people are in the right seats, united around a shared mission, disciplined in execution, and committed to the long-term vision.

Responsibilities

• Develops and executes the company-wide strategic vision and operational plans, while continuously aligning strategic priorities with the company’s “Hedgehog Concept” (what we are deeply passionate about, what we can be best in the world at, and what drives our economic engine).
• Champions innovation and progress, identifying growth opportunities that align with LANGE’s vision and strengths—through market expansion, acquisitions, or internal transformation—while never compromising the company’s core.
• Drives disciplined execution, promoting operational excellence and sustainable growth. Ensures that systems, processes, and metrics reflect clarity of purpose and enable consistent performance across all entities.
• Oversees financial performance and capital strategy, ensuring long term value creation through effective resource allocation and risk mitigation.
• Builds and leads a team of exceptional leaders across the LANGE companies, fostering collaboration, accountability, and high performance across all business units.
• Champions leadership development and succession planning, building a deep bench of talent for critical roles across the LANGE companies.
• Cultivates the LANGE culture and values, leading by example and ensuring they are consistently modeled at the executive level and reinforced across all levels of the organization.
• Serves as a trusted partner to the Lange Family Council, maintaining strategic alignment, open communication, and transparency about the health and direction of the enterprise.
• Ensures compliance with all regulatory, legal, and governance standards across all companies and industries represented in the portfolio.
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from a four-year college or university; 15+ years of related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 10+ years of experience in senior strategic leadership.
• Demonstrated experience in leading complex, multi-entity organizations through growth and change.
• Proven ability to build high-performing, value-aligned leadership teams.
• Strategic and Innovative, with a long-term vision of the company that they can plan, develop, and execute.
• Demonstrated ability to make objective decisions, through a consistent process involving open dialogue, debate, and analyzation of data and facts.
• Exceptional communication, influence, and relationship-building skills.
• Self-motivated, flexible, and able to manage several jobs at one time.
• Ability to travel internationally and have a Valid driver’s license.
  
  

Supervisor Responsibilities

The CEO provides direct leadership and oversight to the executive leaders of all LANGE companies and divisions. This role is responsible for setting expectations, guiding performance, and holding leaders accountable for strategic execution, financial results, and cultural alignment. The CEO ensures that executive leaders are operating in coordination with company-wide priorities and modeling the values of the organization. As a people-first executive, the CEO plays a critical role in talent development, leadership succession, and the cultivation of a culture rooted in shared values and principled action.

Work Environment

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Sedentary work. Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.
• The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading; visual inspection involving small defects, small parts, and/or operation of machines (including inspection); using measurement devices; and/or assembly or fabrication parts at distances close to the eyes. The worker is required to have visual acuity to operate motor vehicles and/or heavy equipment.
• The worker is not substantially exposed to adverse environmental conditions (such as in typical office or administrative work.)
• The worker is frequently required to operate motor vehicles.
  
  

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, all offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify.

This position requires use of information which is subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and/or the Export Administration Regulations (EAR). Non-U.S. persons selected must meet eligibility requirements for access to export-restricted information. The ITAR/EAR defines a U.S. person as a U.S. Citizen, U.S. Permanent Resident (i.e. 'Green Card Holder'), Political Asylee, or Refugee.

If you require reasonable accommodation in completing an application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please provide a brief description of your reasonable accommodation to [email protected]

Department/Division: LANGE, LLC

Reports to: Lange Family Council

Location: Wichita, KS

Position Type: Full-time

Travel Requirement: 50%

FLSA Status: Exempt

About The Company

Rooted in real estate, an industry the company has been involved in since 1986, LANGE has constantly evolved to continue to meet the growing needs of those it serves. Today, the company has branches in portable storage, blast-resistant buildings, asset-based financial solutions and diversified leasing programs. However, through it all, LANGE has remained true to its guiding purpose of providing unique, industry-leading products and services while doing so with integrity and a commitment to its growing family of employees.

For more information, visit https://thelangecompanies.com/