DLR Group
Client Leader
San Diego, California, United States
Sponsorship not specified$160k-$200kDetected 10 days ago
Project ManagementBusiness DevelopmentCustomer SupportLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationCritical ThinkingTime Management
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Entry-level history0
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Lottery odds (Level IV)94
Fits your clock70
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About the role
- As a Client Leader, you will play a key role in business development, managing client relationships and leading contract negotiations.
Responsibilities
- Manage project execution, ensuring alignment with budget, schedule, and scope while maintaining client expectations
- Collaborate with the Project Manager on staffing, responsibilities, and performance feedback for project team members
- Facilitate and document meetings with staff and clients, coordinating project personnel, vendors, and consultants
- Participate in client contract negotiations, manage change requests, and approve project plan modifications
- Support business development initiatives by contributing to RFP responses and participating in client interviews
- Oversee project invoicing, ensuring accuracy and alignment with work deliverables, and manage account receivables
- Expertise in design techniques and tools for producing technical plans, drawings, and models
- DLR Group is an integrated design firm delivering architecture, engineering, interiors, planning, and building optimization for new builds, renovations, and adaptive reuse projects.
- Our teams champion true collaboration, open information sharing, shared risk and reward, value-based decision making, and proficient use of technology to deliver exceptional design.
- Through our values - commitment, creativity, environmental stewardship, fun, integrity, ownership, sharing, teamwork - we elevate the human experience through design, together.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Engineering, or Interior Design
- 20 years of professional experience in the AEC industry, with at least 5 years in a client-facing leadership role
- Strong understanding of business management principles, including strategic planning, resource allocation, and leadership
- Knowledge of customer service principles, including needs assessment, quality standards, and customer satisfaction
- Ability to actively listen, understand others' perspectives, and respond thoughtfully in conversations
Compensation
- $160,000 - $200,000 USD
Company info
- This fuels the work we do around the world and inspires our mission to improve the lives of our clients, our communities, and our planet.
- We are 100% employee-owned: every employee is literally invested in our clients' success.
- We are pursuing the goals of the 2030 Challenge, the ME2040, and the SE2050, and are an initial signatory of the China Accord and the AIA 2030 Commitment.
Equal opportunity
- We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/M/F/Veteran/Disabled employer.
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