Business Development Manager

DLB Associates is a premier engineering and consulting firm specializing in innovative, mission-critical solutions across hyperscale data centers, advanced infrastructure, and high-performance building systems. With over four decades of expertise, we partner with some of the world’s most influential companies to design and optimize environments that demand precision, scalability, and resilience.

Join us and be part of a team where your voice matters, your work makes an impact, and your growth is a shared priority.

Position Title: Business Development Manager

Position Location: Remote - work virtually from anywhere in the United States

SALARY

DLB recognizes salary ranges from job boards do not necessarily reflect our pay ranges. In many instances we out-compete those ranges for well-qualified candidates.

JOB SUMMARY

The Business Development Manager is a client-facing growth role within DLB's Design Department, responsible for expanding the firm's presence in the data center market through supporting new business ventures, proposal development, and disciplined opportunity organization and management. Drawing on a strong foundation in MEP (mechanical, electrical, and plumbing) consulting engineering, this position translates technical understanding into compelling value propositions for the owners, developers, operators, and contractors that shape the mission-critical sector.

This role owns the front end of the sales lifecycle, from identifying and qualifying opportunities to authoring proposals, structuring pricing, and tracking pursuits through close. Working closely with the Executive Directors, trade leadership, and technical teams, the Business Development Manager ensures every pursuit is well-scoped, properly priced, and clearly communicated, delivering a seamless client experience that reflects DLB's engineering and operational excellence.

Ideal candidates thrive at the intersection of technical fluency, strategy, and relationship management. As both a strategic contributor and a hands-on operator, the Business Development Manager will refine the firm's pursuit processes, drive sales performance in the data center market, and ensure DLB's brand of engineering excellence is represented with consistency, clarity, and impact in every client engagement.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Client Engagement & Business Development (30%)

Serve as an external-facing representative of DLB with prospective and existing clients across the data center and mission-critical market.

Identify, research, and qualify new opportunities with owners, developers, colocation and hyperscale operators, general contractors, and design partners.

Build and nurture long-term client and sub-contractor relationships that generate repeat and referral work.

Leverage MEP consulting engineering knowledge to understand client needs and position DLB's services credibly and competitively.

Represent DLB at industry conferences and networking events within the data center sector.

Proposal Development (25%)

Lead the development, writing, and production of proposals, qualifications packages, and responses to RFPs and RFQs.

Translate technical scope from MEP and design teams into clear, persuasive, client-ready narratives.

Coordinate proposal inputs across engineering, marketing, and leadership to meet submission deadlines without sacrificing quality.

Build and maintain a library of reusable proposal content, project descriptions, staff resumes, and past-performance materials.

Ensure every proposal reflects DLB's brand, quality standards, and win strategy.

Pricing Strategy & Structure (15%)