Program Manager

Job Description

Dewberry has an exciting opportunity for an experienced regional Program Manager to serve communities and clients in North Carolina and Southern Virginia. This leadership role will focus on engaging new and existing  clients, leveraging our local and national engineering capabilities, and driving growth within the Real Estate and Commercial Development Market Segment while providing high quality technical products and services delivered with excellent client service.

Dewberry is a leading, market-facing professional services firm with more than 50 locations and 2,000 professionals nationwide. What sets us apart from our competitors are our people. At Dewberry, we seek out exceptional talent and strive to deliver the highest quality of services to our clients. Whether you’re an experienced professional or a new graduate, you’ll have the chance to collaborate with the best and brightest and work on innovative and complex projects at the forefront of the industry. Our commitment to excellence stems from our personal integrity and from other defining attributes, which we call “Dewberry at Work,” that have inspired our employees to be successful for more than a half-century.

Responsibilities

 As a member of the Dewberry team, you will contribute to our mission by:

• Contribute to project delivery by utilizing technical planning skills to add value added services for our clients and communities.
• Provide mentorship opportunities to technical staff and client engagement opportunities.
• Developing client and pursuit plans aimed at growth of our commercial and economic development teams and consistent with our national strategy.
• Engaging new and existing clients to position Dewberry for growth opportunities leveraging our national portfolio of experience and expertise.
• Making recommendations on opportunities to pursue and leading an effective go/no-go decision process.
• Managing local and geographically dispersed teams of engineers to position, win, and deliver top quality engineering products with excellent client service.
• Participating in development of growth strategies and sales goals; drive achievement of sales targets consistent with growth expectations for our team.
• Represent Dewberry at various industry and community events.
• Elevating Dewberry’s brand by maintaining high visibility and actively participating in professional and industry organizations.
• Drive proactive, client focused business development approaches based on building long-term relationships with priority clients.
• Assist clients with strategic planning and visioning to help them implement and execute their long-term success plans.
• Assembling and leading client and project teams in support of client needs and growth of the practice.
• Developing partnerships with subconsultants and other service providers to assemble winning proposal teams.
• Negotiating appropriate scope and fee to deliver projects meeting client expectations for quality and schedule.
• Developing win themes, technical approaches, and project teams that differentiate Dewberry based on project requirements, client understanding, and positioning efforts.
• Exemplify Dewberry’s culture of honesty, integrity, teamwork and contribution.

Required Skills & Required Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Planning or related field.
• 10 years of related experience.
• Proven consultant track record of successful client management within the Real Estate and Commercial Development Market Segment, including growth of a portfolio of related services.
• History of overseeing successful delivery of large-scale projects as a project manager, client manager, or technical lead.
• Strong interpersonal, organization, leadership, and management capabilities.
• Strong North Carolina and southern Virginia client relationships within the Real Estate and Commercial Development Market Segment.

Don’t meet every single requirement? At Dewberry we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workplace for our employees. So if you’re excited about this role, but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the position description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may just be the right candidate for this or other opportunities.

*At this time, Dewberry will not sponsor a new applicant for work authorization.

*Dewberry is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.

*Only recipients of an offer of employment from Dewberry, will be required to submit to a background screening which may include, but is not limited to, employment verification, educational and other credential verification, driving record check, criminal background check, and an investigative consumer report. These screenings will be conducted by Dewberry’s background vendor of choice and will be conducted in compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local law.