Full Job Description
In the role of Federal Business Group Manager, we'll count on you to:
Responsibilities will include oversight for operations, staff development, growth and profitability, quality control, marketing support, and fostering good overall team morale. This will include management support of multi-discipline design activities including schematic design development and development of construction documents to support large, medium and small-scale federal projects including horizontal and vertical construction under A-E Services and Design-Build contracts with varying degrees of technical complexity and project team size. The candidate must have established Federal client relationships and/or show a track record of developing client relationships in their past experience and be involved throughout the complete life cycle of projects including marketing proposal development, negotiations, contract development, design and production. This position will serve on the Area Management Team and will oversee a combined team from architecture and engineering across Area business groups and cost centers within the Region. Additionally, this position will require a coordination role with other federal market sectors in transportation, water, resources, building engineering services, and architecture business groups.
Specific Roles and Responsibilities:
• Supervise, manage, lead, and mentor project managers assigned federal. This includes monitoring of utilization, conducting performance reviews, and holding periodic team meetings to conduct training, share lessons learned, and coordinate effort.
• Serve as a project manager on designated federal projects
• Responsible for the profit and loss of the federal projects performed by the Area. As part of this, establishes financial goals and other business intelligence metrics for the Area's federal program. This includes working with HDR federal contract managers, accountants, and other federal marketing personnel to develop a more in-depth work forecast to assist in planning for future work
• Coordinate with HDR federal contract managers to review scopes of work for task orders and stand-alone contracts to determine and assign appropriate personnel resources
• Participate in required project reviews (e.g., 0%, management reviews) to monitor performance and progress of federal projects
• Review and provide feedback to project and contract managers for responses to client feedback received via the Contractor
• Performance Assessment Rating System (CPARS). Assist client and contract managers in identifying methods to improve performance/service for clients when less than satisfactory performance is identified
• Serve as a member of a client management team or as a client manager for designated federal clients. This will involve some travel to visit federal clients
• Serve as a contract manager for designated federal IDIQ and stand-alone contracts
• Participate in capture planning and preparation and/or review of proposals for federal contract pursuits
• Coordinate with area, regional, and national federal marketing, business group, client managers, and client development leads to establish booking goals, marketing budgets, and strategies/initiatives to grow the federal facility market sector and assist other federal market sector leads in growing the overall federal program
• Periodically attend industry events related to Federal work (e.g., SAME luncheons and conferences)
Preferred Qualification
• Maintains a professional or engineering registration and has related technical experience
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Qualifications
Required Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in a Professional, Architecture, Engineering or closely related field
• A minimum of 10 years experience
• Demonstrated experience with leading diverse teams
• Committed to quality, improvement and HDR values
• Actively engaged in professional or industry associations to enhance HDR technical expertise and brand
• Ability to work cooperatively with regional and local office managers, other area business group directors, technical directors and marketing managers
• An attitude and commitment to being an active participant of our employee-owned culture is a must