Environmental Market Leader

What We're Looking For: 

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

 Education & Experience Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science, Engineering, or related field
• Minimum 10+ years of progressive experience in environmental consulting
• Demonstrated experience in a leadership role such as Market Leader, Practice Leader, or similar
• Professional licensure or registration as applicable
• Experience leading multidisciplinary environmental teams
• Advanced business, leadership, or management training

Why join us? 

Barge Design Solutions, Inc., is an engineering and architecture firm with diverse in-house multidisciplinary practice areas. The employee-owned company is more than 650+ people strong and serves clients nationwide from multiple U.S. locations. Barge is ranked on Engineering News-Record (ENR)’s Top 500 Design Firms and Architectural Record’s Top 300 Architecture Firms and is a certified Great Place To Work®.

Our primary purpose for being in business is ultimately to create a better life by unleashing the potential of our people, clients and communities. This purpose is supported by our company’s core values because at the end of the day, Barge CARES:

• Collaborate – Help and expect help. Teamwork is essential in what we do.
  
• Authentic – Honesty, integrity and trust are at the heart of everything we do. We are who we say we are.
  
• Responsible – We are accountable for our work, our attitude, and our actions. We make Barge better.
• Excellence – We go all in and expect more of ourselves than others expect of us.
• Service – We are humble. We use our gifts in service of others.
  

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