Virginia Transportation Growth Leader

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Your impact
At Jacobs, we’re driven to deliver excellence and shape the future of transportation. We’re seeking a Client Account Manager with a proven background in the engineering industry—someone who understands the complexities of transportation infrastructure projects including aviation, ports and maritime, rail and transit, and highway/bridge. In this role, you’ll leverage your technical insight and client relationship expertise to strengthen our Transportation Infrastructure Practice in Virginia, advancing intermodal connectivity and innovative solutions for communities. Join a global leader recognized for its inclusive culture and commitment to sustainable, forward-thinking design and engineering.
As a Client Account Manager, you will have the opportunity to impact strategic business relationships with key clients, collaborating with our Jacobs colleagues to maintain a high level of service to achieve client satisfaction and bring the strengths of the industry-leading Jacobs business offering to our clients. Working with members of our team, your focus is to make sure that Jacobs is the firm-of-choice for our transportation industry clients in Virginia, to ensure that Jacobs has a thorough understanding of our clients’ needs and that our clients see us as their best advocate for accomplishing their goals.
In this role, you will lead accounts for our municipal, state government, and select private transportation industry clients in Virginia, including the aviation, ports and maritime, rail and transit, and highway/bridge markets. You will collaborate with and lead our delivery teams to sustain existing workload and to lead strategy development to capture transformational work for our Virginia transportation business. The final candidate could be located near any of our Virginia based offices including, Reston, Virginia, Richmond, Virginia or Virginia Beach, Virginia as well as Washington, D.C.
When you join us as a Client Account Manager, you’ll be responsible for

Serve as the point of contact for client service activities and develop strategies to grow the transportation practice for Virginia.
Work with the Geographic Transportation Market Growth Director to align our transportation growth strategy within the broader regional portfolio.
Identify, charter, and lead client service teams comprised of multi-disciplinary project managers and practice leaders around a common vision of success.
Facilitate deep client relationships between Jacobs personnel and client personnel (management, technical, functional, delivery) to weave a fabric of broad-based relationships between our firm and our clients.
Advocate on client's behalf by actively engaging the firm to address client needs and recommend strategic actions to optimize our business development investment and market share growth.
Work with office/corporate leaders to develop strategies for hiring, identifying needs to support key project pursuits, team growth, office growth, profitability, employee development and employee satisfaction to support our larger business objectives.
Actively engage with project and sales teams to ensure business development process discipline, positively influencing win strategy before and during proposal development, interviews, and presentations.
Mentor future sales leadership to create depth and succession in your geographical sales team
Coordinate and facilitate the business development process and help develop required business development costs aligned with opportunity potential and return on investment objectives.
Actively participate in industry associations and community initiatives to enhance Jacobs’ brand and your professional network.

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Here's what you'll need

Bachelor’s degree in engineering or planning related to the transportation market, or equivalent related work experience in lieu of a degree.
A minimum of 15 years of experience in engineering and/or related disciplines associated with the transportation infrastructure sector.
High level existing contacts and strong relationships with Virginia transportation clients including municipal, state government, and private transportation industry clients, and a successful track record of winning work in the region.
Understanding of how to identify opportunities well in advance, respond to RFPs/solicitations, interview and win new work.
Ability to collaborate with diverse internal teams, including sales staff, operations teams, subject matter experts, legal, and contracting.
Knowledge of and relationships with clients and potential teaming partners in the Virginia market, both large firms and small business partners, to advance our position in the marketplace and develop the most responsive teams for our clients.
Be a strong team leader, consensus builder and team player skilled in communicating and presenting to clients.
Proven record of developing zippered relationships with key clients at all levels (from executives to key management levels).
Substantial business development experience in the engineering and/or professional services and consulting industry, including proven client development skills
Strong business acumen and effective communication skills
Capability to negotiate with and influence others
Ability to lead an account team, set a vision and strategy, coach/mentor and motivate the team, reach within Jacobs to offer best-in-class solutions, manage commercial and legal negotiations, and close deals

Ideally, You’ll Also Have

Technical background/experience in delivering or managing large transportation projects or programs is considered a positive and adds credibility in consulting, engineering, construction industry service offerings and delivery.

Our health and welfare benefits are designed to invest in you, and in the things you care about. Your health. Your well-being. Your security. Your future. Employees have access to medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance, a 401(k) plan, and the ability to purchase company stock at a discount. Eligible employees may also enroll in a deferred compensation plan or the Executive Deferral Plan. Jacobs has an unlimited U.S. Personalized Paid Time Off (PPTO) policy for full-time salaried/exempt employees, seven paid holidays, and caregiver leave. And certain roles may be eligible for additional rewards, including merit increases, performance discretionary bonus, and stock.
The base salary range for this position is $180,000.00 to $260,000.00. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. Job posted on January 22, 2026. This position will be open for at least 3 days.
We value collaboration and believe that in-person interactions are crucial for both our culture and client delivery. We empower employees with our hybrid working policy, allowing them to split their work week between Jacobs offices/projects and remote locations enabling them to deliver their best work.
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