The Environmental Market Leader provides strategic leadership for Barge Design Solutions' Environmental practice by driving market growth, expanding client relationships, and delivering exceptional project performance. This role is responsible for developing and executing market strategies, leading high-performing multidisciplinary teams, and positioning Barge as a trusted environmental consulting partner across public and private sectors.
Serving as both a business leader and technical advisor, the Environmental Market Leader partners with clients to solve complex environmental challenges while fostering innovation, operational excellence, and sustainable growth. This individual is accountable for business development, financial performance, talent development, and the successful delivery of environmental services including natural resources, environmental permitting and compliance, ecological services, remediation, restoration, and environmental planning.
Through visionary leadership, collaboration, and a strong client focus, the Environmental Market Leader will strengthen Barge's market presence, develop strategic growth opportunities, and build a culture of technical excellence that delivers lasting value for our clients, employees, and communities.
Responsibilities
Strategic
Leadership & Growth
- Define and execute the division’s strategic vision
- Position the division to pursue and win larger, more
- complex environmental and programmatic work
- Identify emerging market opportunities and expand
- service offerings
- Collaborate with staff and firm leadership on growth
- initiatives
Business
Development & Client Leadership
- Lead client development efforts across key markets
- (energy, DOTs, government, private clients)
- Serve as a senior relationship manager for key
- accounts
- Actively pursue and secure new work, including
- leveraging existing client relationships
- Contribute to proposals, capture strategies, and
- large pursuits
- Drive contract backlog and revenue growth for the
- division
Financial
& Operational Management
Accountable for division performance including
- Revenue and contracts secured
- Profitability and project
- performance
- Provide oversight of project delivery to ensure
- quality, efficiency, and client satisfaction
- Support development of project scopes, fees, and
- execution strategies
- Establish and maintain performance metrics and
- accountability
People
Leadership
- Lead, develop, and mentor a team of environmental
- professionals and leaders
- Oversee leadership roles within the division
- Build a high-performing, engaged, and collaborative
- team culture
- Drive talent development, succession planning, and
- recruitment
- Make personnel decisions including hiring,
- development, and performance management
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