[Hiring] Senior Strategic Advisor @Halff

Role Description

The Senior Strategic Advisor partners with the Solution Leader and Federal Practice Leader to help develop and execute strategies that expand Halff’s presence, visibility, and growth within the marketplace. This role helps identify, evaluate, and pursue opportunities with agencies while supporting relationships with key stakeholders, teaming partners, industry organizations, and internal leadership.

The Senior Strategic Advisor supports practices through targeted strategic planning, market research, pipeline development, pursuit positioning, and cross-functional coordination. With an understanding of federal procurement processes, agency priorities, contract vehicles, and emerging infrastructure, environmental, transportation, water, and resiliency initiatives, this role helps position Halff for long-term success across the water and environment sectors.

Summary:

• Helps sustain a strong pipeline of work by coordinating with practice leaders, client advisors, marketing, and professional staff on pre- and middle-game business development efforts.
• Works closely with the Solution Marketing Manager to support a seamless transition into end-game proposal execution.
• Contributes to data tracking, performance analysis, and implementation of strategic initiatives that advance practice and Solution goals.
• Requires an entrepreneurial mindset, initiative, and the ability to independently move strategic priorities forward.
• Experience supporting federal pursuits, capture planning, or federal client development is preferred.

Qualifications

• Expertise in pursuit strategy and effective middle-game positioning.
• Ability to develop innovative, client-focused marketing strategies.
• Strong leadership and collaboration skills across technical, marketing, and operations teams.
• Adept at balancing strategic, big-picture planning with hands-on execution.
• Proficiency in data management, utilizing data and metrics to inform decisions, monitor performance, and refine strategies.
• Resourceful, self-motivated, entrepreneurial, and results-driven, with the ability to take initiative and move strategic priorities forward independently.
• Experience with federal pursuits is preferred.
• Familiarity with current trends, challenges, and dynamics in the federal market is preferred but not required.
• Knowledge of federal procurement regulations, acquisition processes, contract vehicles, IDIQs, MATOCs, and related federal contracting methods is preferred.
• Strong communication, presentation, relationship-building, influence, collaboration, and opportunity-assessment skills.

Requirements

• Supports the Solution Leader, assigned Practice Leader(s), and Senior Strategist in developing and implementing strategic plans and initiatives.
• Facilitates goal setting, action planning, and business planning for practice-level initiatives.
• Tracks progress and supports accountability for key strategic objectives.
• Supports federal strategic planning efforts by helping align growth priorities with agency forecasts, contract vehicles, procurement timelines, and long-term client engagement goals.
• Helps identify and prioritize federal agencies, programs, and contract vehicles that align with growth objectives and targeted capabilities.
• Establishes and supports annual and multi-year growth objectives for targeted federal agencies, programs, and strategic initiatives.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, prescription and life insurance.
• Long-term and short-term disability insurance.
• Paid time off (PTO) and 8 company paid holidays (and Veteran's Day for our veterans).
• Traditional and Roth 401(k) plans.
• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP).
• Health Savings Account (HSA).
• 529 College Savings Plan.
• Flexible spending accounts (FSA).
• Employee Assistance Plan.

Company Description

Halff is a full-service infrastructure consulting firm planned, designed, engineered, constructed — and purposed — for people. Since 1950, we’ve been creating smart solutions that improve lives and communities by turning ideas into reality.

Halff was founded on a core tenet: Focus on people, treat them well, and success will follow. It’s no wonder, then, that our employees and the culture they create result in our firm consistently being named a Top Workplace in America.

Our industry-leading professionals collaborate to meet tough challenges in creative ways.

Halff has over 30 offices in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Florida, Arkansas, Georgia and Arizona.