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Transportation Market Leader

Stanley Consultants is an award-winning and industry-leading global consulting engineering firm, with an unmatched commitment to culture, values, and ethics. We are dedicated to client experience and solve the most complex challenges to create a sustainable, connected, and enriched world for all. As the world changes, Stanley strategically evolves with it, integrating the latest technology, innovation, and resiliency practices.

With over a century of experience serving the energy, federal government, transportation, and water sectors, we have helped improve lives and shape the infrastructure systems that connect us. As an employee-owned organization with a People First approach, we stand apart from other engineering consulting and services firms. At Stanley, your voice counts, your growth matters, and your success is our success.

Stanley Consultants offers flexible work options, competitive pay and great benefits, a strong sense of community, and the chance to build a meaningful, long-term career!

Location - Any major office location

Job type - Onsite

Stanley Consultants is seeking a Transportation Market Leader to drive growth, client impact, and delivery excellence across our Transportation market. This executive P&L leadership role oversees strategy, business performance, client relationships, and team development.

This role reports to the Chief Operating Officer.

What You Will Be Doing:

Lead Transportation Market Strategy

• Set and execute market strategy to drive profitable growth and long-term client partnerships.
• Provide direction for business development teams, ensuring strategic alignment toward identifying, developing, and securing new opportunities.
• Translate market trends, funding programs, and client needs into actionable business plans.

Build the Practice

• In collaboration with other functional areas, develop and acquire required technical and delivery capabilities to execute market growth strategy and deliver the market annual business plan.
• Engage with key industry leaders and influencers to advance company brand recognition and leverage industry relationships to identify significant new marketplace opportunities.
• Understand and connect competitor and industry dynamics to our service offerings and approach.
• Create and foster external strategic partnerships to drive delivery strategy.

Drive Client Relationships

• Serve as a senior-level relationship leader for key Transportation clients and partners.
• Expand wallet share with existing clients and guide the selection of new clients and program opportunities.
• Represent Stanley Consultants as a trusted, solutions-oriented partner in the Transportation industry.

Deliver Business Performance

• Lead sales, revenue growth, profitability, and portfolio health for the Transportation market.
• Provide commercial oversight to new project origination and setup.
• Maintain accountability for financial performance, risk management, and delivery outcomes.

Build and Lead High-Performing Teams

• Inspire and develop multidisciplinary Transportation teams across geographies.
• Partner with operations and talent leaders to ensure the right skills, capacity, and succession to support growth.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, and engagement.

What We're Looking For:

Attributes & Experiences

• Credibility in the transportation industry.
• Deep understanding of transportation funding and procurement and how to convert funding programs into capture plans and deliverable scopes.
• Ability to integrate cross-market services to deliver differentiated, client-ready solutions and expand wallet share.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen; manage portfolio health and P&L accountability while balancing growth and risk.
• Demonstrated track record of developing, winning and growing major accounts including pursuit strategy, teaming, and executive-level client engagement.
• Proven executive presence and ability to build trust with C-suite and public-sector leadership; skilled at navigating stakeholder environments and delivering outcomes in the public eye.
• Experience in the development of multi-year growth strategies with shorter horizon milestones.
• Adept at managing and leading through influence in a highly matrixed environment.
• Inspiring people leadership, including building high-performing teams, developing future leaders, recruiting key talent, and creating a culture of accountability, collaboration, and safety.
• Data-informed leadership mindsetuses market intelligence, pipeline metrics, and competitive insights to prioritize pursuits and measure performance.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related technical discipline required; Master's degree or MBA preferred.
• 10+ years of progressive leadership experience in the Transportation market.
• Proven success leading growth, client engagement, and delivery on complex, multidisciplinary programs.

$207,000 - $300,000 a year This position offers a base salary of $207,000 - $300,000 with additional earning potential through a performance-based bonus program. Total compensation will vary based on individual performance and company performance. (Salary range for CO, IL, or MN locations) Stanley Consultants is committed to maintaining transparency in our hiring process, including providing information about compensation. The starting salary for the successful candidate in this position is competitive and will be determined by the selected candidate's qualifications and experience, geographic location, internal equity, company policy and practices. In compliance with pay transparency laws, pay ranges are disclosed for positions and locations where required.

Work-Life Balance We realize there's more to life than just work. We help you meet the demands of work, family and personal life through several flexible options.

What we offer:

Member-Owned. Member-ownership is at the heart of our culture, aligning client satisfaction, company performance, and personal reward.

Paid Time Away. Stanley Consultants offers numerous paid holidays, generous paid time off (PTO), parental leave, and professional development leave.

Health Insurance. We provide a comprehensive insurance package including medical, dental, vision, FSA, HSA, Doctor On Demand, wellness reimbursement, and mental health resources.

Financial Health. We offer life insurance, short- and long-term disability insurance, identity theft protection, and many other benefits.

Professional Growth. When your skills grow, so do we, which is why we offer tuition assistance, professional society membership, and more.

Financial Rewards. We share our prosperity with members through company stock ownership, a generous 401K match, incentive compensation, and profit-sharing contributions to retirement 401K plans.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities