Water Growth Leader

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With over a century of experience serving the energy, federal government, transportation, and water sectors, we have helped improve lives and shape the infrastructure systems that connect us. As an employee-owned organization with a People First approach, we stand apart from other engineering consulting and services firms. At Stanley, your voice counts, your growth matters, and your success is our success.

Stanley Consultants offers flexible work options, competitive pay and great benefits, a strong sense of community, and the chance to build a meaningful, long-term career!

Job Title - Water Growth Leader 

Location - Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Louisiana, Texas, or Utah

Job Type – Hybrid, Onsite, Remote

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Stanley Consultants is seeking a Water Growth Leader that would oversee business development for our existing offices in Arizona, Colorado, and Utah with expansion into other adjacent markets within the Mountain-West & Southern States. This position reports to the Water Market Leader and leads and coordinates the overall business development efforts to expand our water, wastewater and water resources related professional engineering services to local government clients.

• Serve as Stanley Consultants key contact and service manager to our clients in municipal and industrial markets
• Provide overall leadership and mentoring for the regional water team
• Lead the development of strategic business and client plans for the regional water markets in coordination with Client Service Managers
• Defend and increase market share with existing and new county and municipal clients across the southwest region
• Evaluate client needs, identify requirements, and provide clients with value added solutions
• Identify new service opportunities
• Develop teaming opportunities with strategic partners to pursue work with state, county and local agencies within the region
• Supervise Client Service Managers in the Mountain-West & Southern States
• Support Client Service Managers to ensure a robust Water Market sales pipeline including accurate information for the regional water market opportunities
• Maintain and update sales opportunities in the CRM database and the opportunity report
• Lead the Go/No-go decision process on potential project opportunities to pursue
• Lead the development of pursuit strategies for key project opportunities
• Identify and bring on necessary and key talent to the existing southwest water team
• Participate in project scoping, fee estimating, proposal preparation, interviews, and negotiations
• Oversee performance of projects to clients and resolve issues as they arise
• Serve as technical liaison to clients on key projects and coordinate technical efforts within discipline areas if necessary

• Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering or bachelor’s degree in business management
• Minimum of 20 years of relevant experience
• Leadership experience in AWWA, WEF or other professional organizations
• Established relationships with clients in the respective regions
• Proven leadership, communication, mentoring, and client liaison skills
• Working knowledge of design software used to prepare engineering and design documents
• Knowledge of the regional market
• Demonstrated business development skills including leadership of the preparation of statements of interest, technical proposals, and interviews

Stanley’s Approach to Flexibility

While some members choose to work out of their local office on a full-time basis, we offer a hybrid schedule for eligible positions consisting of two days a week in the office, two days a week remotely, and Friday being a flexible day that can be worked either in the office or at home. Eligible roles can also offer a compressed workweek schedule. Members who participate will be assigned a 9/80 work schedule, meaning every other Friday off!

What we offer:

Member-Owned. Member-ownership is at the heart of our culture, aligning client satisfaction, company performance, and personal reward.

Work-Life Balance. We realize there’s more to life than just work.

Paid Time Away. Stanley Consultants offers numerous paid holidays, generous paid time off (PTO), parental leave, and professional development leave.

Health Portfolio. We provide a comprehensive portfolio of health services including medical, dental, vision, FSA, HSA, Doctor On Demand, wellness reimbursement, and mental health resources.

Financial Health. We offer life insurance, short- and long-term disability insurance, identity theft protection, and many other benefits.

Professional Growth. When your skills grow, so do we, which is why we offer tuition assistance, professional society membership, and more.

Financial Rewards. We share our prosperity with members through company stock ownership, a generous 401K match, incentive compensation, and profit-sharing contributions to retirement 401K plans.

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