Senior Client Development Specialist - Public Sector

Description

• Regularly engages department, office, and regional management to keep them informed of activities and results, and regularly meets with supervisor to discuss progress on initiatives and plans as well as other items including career advancement.
• Attend conferences, professional organizations, and government and technical meetings/events as a representative of Terracon and coordinate/participate in these meetings and events on a regular basis.
• Use network to assist department, office, and regional managers with recruiting efforts to attain best in class staff.
• Leads Public RFP submittals including on-calls and coordinate with the marketing team to deliver high quality proposals.
• Lead safety efforts for team and ensure team follows safety rules and guidelines. Responsible for creating and modeling a safe work environment; demonstrates safety practices.
• Oversees the process of managing and reporting client development results. This includes client and project pursuits, RFPs, proposals, key wins and losses, industry activities, conferences, and other general client development responsibilities.
• Works with corporate personnel including national accounts, sectors and marketing to assist in overall company goals related to revenue growth.
• Continuous quality monitoring and improvement on projects and promote the importance of client experience. Engage technical professionals in projects at their onset, offer support as needed throughout the life of the project, and advance additional opportunities as the project unfolds.
• Mine existing on-calls contracts by identifying key personnel in public agencies, understanding procurement processes, introducing our team to the agencies, and supporting our team to win new projects.
• Provides client development leadership within multiple offices across the region. This includes managing key client relationships, tracking and reporting of client development activities, facilitating strategy meetings, motivating and training in the art of client development and major project pursuits, and professional organization membership and networking.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree Engineering, Engineering Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Marketing, Communications and/or related degree with 5 years’ related experience in the public sector. Or in lieu of a degree, a minimum of 9 years related experience.
• Valid driver’s license with acceptable violation history.
• Develop understanding and be aware of project-related risk. Be familiar with what could go wrong on a project and how to protect the Company. Be familiar with company risk policies.
• Has the experience and know-how to facilitate strategy meetings for both client and major project pursuits.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance