Senior Business Development Consultant

Description:

What You Will Be Doing:

EMA is looking for an experienced consultant to enhance our active Business Development team. You will play an integral role in creating and sustaining client relationships across all aspects of EMA’s technology and management consulting business. You will develop and implement plans to generate business from new and existing clients and collaborate with other team members to leverage coverage of markets and geographies. Your knowledge of water and wastewater utility best practices and empathy for water sector challenges will help you to identify opportunities for clients to use data and systems to make better decisions, streamline processes and build organizational capabilities. You will build your skills by working with and learning from experienced subject matter experts, while at the same time, contributing fresh ideas and perspectives to projects and developing innovative solutions.

Who You Are:

• Constantly curious, with a natural tendency to ask the right questions, listen for understanding and continually learn.
• Driven to create and sustain excellent relationships with clients by listening carefully to their needs and collaborating with them to achieve their goals.
• A natural leader who can take appropriate actions to achieve desired results while overcoming risk, lack of certainty or lack of agreement.
• Patient, persistent and highly organized, you make steady progress towards your goals and adjust as needed when you experience setbacks.
• Effective communicator and relationship builder who delivers clear messages and connects and collaborates with others to build rapport, trust and teamwork.
• Motivated to succeed and enthusiastically engage others.
• Inspired to help build healthy communities and preserve natural environments by improving the processes and decision making of water and wastewater utilities.
• Innovative and future focused, you want to make a difference.

Who We Are:

EMA Inc is an employee-owned consulting firm focused on the water sector. We work together with our clients on innovative engineering, technology, and management solutions to help lower costs, increase productivity, improve customer service and maximize return on investment for utilities and communities. We strengthen people and organizations, streamline and improve processes and help deliver more value through leading edge information technologies and high-quality data.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree. Master’s degree, PE license, PMP and other industry certifications is are desirable.
• Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in the water and wastewater sector, with some experience in consulting and business development preferred.
• Job Type: Full-Time
• Location: United States or Canada
• Travel: Up to 70%

As an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran or disability status.