What are the responsibilities and job description for the Business Development Specialist position at ECS Southwest, LLP?
Responsibilities
- Identifying and researching leads for new work and proposal leads, lunch and learns, and other business development tasks
- Support project team by coordinating proposal opportunities and presentations for both prime and teaming arrangements
- Maintain consistent interaction with multiple offices including principals, directors, managers, and others to effectively support business development strategy
- Assisting with business development plan development and budgets
- Identifying, tracking, and coordinating conference, industry, and award opportunities
- Supply content and coordinate with Social Media Team for support of social media, marketing campaigns, and website and industry conferences
- Ensure that messages are supportive of and consistent with company strategy, deliver content via LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, email, or direct mail through the corporate marketing group
- Conduct market research to keep up with changing demographic and other relevant issues to assist with evaluating business development and communication activities and to monitor emerging issues
- Assist with maintaining and updating databases
- Additional research, administrative tasks, and or special projects as needed
Qualifications
BS in Business Administration, Marketing, Communications, or similar preferred, but not required
0 - 3 years of business development experience
About Us
ECS Group of Companies (ECS) was founded in 1988 with the goal to raise the standards of professional engineering consulting. Today, we are a leader in geotechnical, construction materials, environmental and facilities consulting services. We are employee-owned with more than 3,000 employees in 100 offices and testing facilities coast to coast. ECS is currently ranked #60 in Engineering News-Record's Top 500 Design Firms (April 2026), #148 in Engineering News-Record's Top 200 Environmental Firms (October 2025) and #50 in Zweig Group's Hot Firm List (May 2025). For additional information about ECS, visit: www.ecslimited.com.
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