Market Director - Energy

Job Description

Job Description

Job Summary:

The Market Director is a senior leadership role responsible for the overall performance, growth, and operational excellence of the energy engineering market. This role provides strategic direction and oversight across project delivery, financial performance, talent management, and client relationships, while partnering closely with sector leadership to execute firm-wide objectives. The Market Director is accountable for market-level profitability, team development, and sustainable growth, ensuring consistent delivery of high-quality engineering services aligned with Stratus Team’s standards and values.

Primary Essential Functions:

• Provide strategic leadership and oversight for the assigned market, ensuring alignment with firm, sector, and operational goals.
• Own market-level financial performance, including revenue growth, profitability, backlog, utilization, and forecasting.
• Lead and develop a high-performing leadership team, including managers and senior technical leaders, fostering accountability, engagement, and succession planning.
• Oversee project delivery across the market, ensuring quality, consistency, risk management, and adherence to contractual obligations.
• Partner with Business Development and technical leaders to identify growth opportunities, support pursuit strategies, and expand client relationships within the market
• Maintain executive-level client relationships, serving as a trusted advisor and escalation point for key accounts and complex issues.
• Collaborate with sector and shared services leadership (HR, Finance, Operations) to ensure consistent application of policies, processes, and performance standards
• Drive resource planning and workforce strategies, including hiring, deployment, development, and retention of engineering talent.
• Establish and monitor market goals, KPIs, and performance metrics, implementing corrective actions as needed
• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, professional standards, and internal risk management practices
• Champion a culture of collaboration, accountability, inclusion, and continuous improvement across the market.
• Represent the firm internally and externally, reinforcing Stratus Team’s brand, values, and professional reputation.

Competencies (Knowledge, Skills, Abilities):

Knowledge

• Engineering project delivery models, professional services economics, and market-level financial management
• Business development principles, client relationship management, and pursuit strategies within professional services.
• Workforce planning, talent development, and performance management best practices
• Risk management, contract fundamentals, and regulatory considerations applicable to engineering services.
• Organizational leadership and change management principles.

Skills

• Strategic planning and execution at a market or business unit level.
• Financial analysis, forecasting, and performance management.
• Client engagement, negotiation, and relationship-building at senior levels
• Team leadership, coaching, and talent development.
• Clear, concise communication with diverse internal and external stakeholders.

Abilities

• Lead and influence across disciplines, roles, and geographies
• Balance technical, operational, and commercial priorities effectively.
• Make sound decisions in complex and ambiguous situations.
• Drive accountability while fostering collaboration and trust.
• Represent the firm with professionalism and credibility in high-visibility settings.

Qualifications:

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or a related field
• Licensed Professional Engineer (PE) or ability to obtain licensure, as applicable.
• Minimum of 10–15 years of progressive experience in engineering or professional services, including leadership responsibility.
• Demonstrated experience managing teams, projects, and financial performance at a market or business unit level.

Preferred

• Master’s degree in Engineering, Business, ora related discipline.
• Prior experience leading a multi-disciplinary or geographically distributed team.
• Experience in a growth-oriented, multi-market professional services firm.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Stratus is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, pregnancy-related conditions, and lactation), gender identity or expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws and ordinances. Stratus Team’s management Team is dedicated to this policy with respect to recruitment, hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, training, compensation, benefits, employee activities, access to facilities and programs, and general treatment during employment.