Business Development Specialist

ECS Group of Companies; Carrollton (TX); On-site; USD 42,000 - 66,000; Full time

Job summary

ECS Group of Companies (ECS) is a national engineering consulting leader with offices coast to coast. The company seeks a junior business development professional to identify and research leads, support proposals, and help execute the marketing and communication strategy across multiple offices.

The role emphasizes assisting with budgets and business plans, coordinating conference and award opportunities, and maintaining CRM databases while collaborating with social media and marketing teams.

Qualifications

• 0 - 3 years of business development experience.
• BS in Business Administration, Marketing, Communications, or similar preferred, but not required.

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.

Skills

Business development

Lead research

Communication

Market research

Education

BS in Business Administration, Marketing, Communications, or similar

Job description

• 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
• BS in Business Administration, Marketing, Communications, or similar preferred, but not required
• 0 - 3 years of business development experience

• 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
• BS in Business Administration, Marketing, Communications, or similar preferred, but not required
• 0 - 3 years of business development experience

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.

ECS is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

To learn more.