Business Relationship Manager/Strategic Lead, Industrial

Position Overview

Kiewit is seeking a Business Relationship Manager / Strategic Business Lead to serve as a trusted partner to leadership across our districts performing engineering and construction in our industrial market. This role is responsible for aligning district business goals with enterprise capabilities, ensuring investments, initiatives, and shared services deliver measurable value across the project lifecycle.

This position acts as the primary and strategic interface with district leadership to develop solutions to business challenges through technical, data-driven solutions. Value is captured by coordinating expedient solution delivery in support of Kiewit’s construction-led, decentralized operating model through internal technology acceleration groups or other means as necessary.

District Overview

Kiewit’s industrial market specializes in delivering complex engineering, procurement, and construction solutions across a broad range of industrial facilities, with a primary focus on — but not limited to — mission-critical data centers, alongside advanced manufacturing, processing, and other industrial infrastructure projects across North America. Our teams combine self-perform construction expertise with integrated engineering capabilities to safely deliver reliable, resilient, and scalable facilities that meet the speed-to-market and uptime demands of today’s digital infrastructure and industrial clients.

Location

This position may be based out of Kiewit’s Lenexa, Kansas office and will require travel within North America up to 33% of the time to support district office and project site needs. 

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary business relationship partner for districts aligned to Kiewit’s Industrial market, with an emphasis on data center clients and projects.

• Build and maintain strong working relationships with district leadership to understand strategic priorities, operational challenges, and growth objectives.

• Translate district goals into prioritized initiatives based on business value and requirements.

• Lead structured intake processes for cross-functional initiatives requiring technical solutions to be built or otherwise acquired.

• Facilitate prioritization of work based on business value, risk, resource availability, and timing.

• Coordinate and collaborate with technology acceleration groups — including business development, innovation, and regional technology teams — to drive aligned execution and support successful delivery.

• Review and approve citizen-development requests within assigned districts for corporate hosting to ensure governance and alignment with enterprise standards.

• Leverage AI-assisted tools to prototype and validate proposed technical solutions before committing to full-scale development.

• Lead or support recurring business review meetings with district leadership to evaluate relationship health, delivered value, and priorities for the period ahead.

• Monitor initiative progress, proactively manage risks, and ensure outcomes meet agreed success measures.

• Support change management efforts by effectively communicating strategy, intent, and value to stakeholders.

• Prepare and deliver clear, concise updates and recommendations to district and senior leadership.

• Identify opportunities to improve consistency, efficiency, and value delivery across multiple districts.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Construction Management, Business, Information Systems, or a related field.

• Minimum of 8 years of experience in business relationship management, strategic planning, operations, or enterprise technology or business support roles.

• Experience supporting large-scale industrial, data center, manufacturing, or infrastructure construction organizations.

• Demonstrated ability to partner with senior leaders and influence outcomes without direct authority.

• Strong communication, analytical, and organizational skills.

• Willingness and ability to travel up to 33% of the time.

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA or advanced degree.

• Experience in outside customer sales in the role of account executive

• Experience supporting data center, mission-critical facilities, advanced manufacturing, or other industrial markets.

• Familiarity with portfolio management, governance models, or business relationship management frameworks.

• Experience working in decentralized or matrixed organizations. #LI-AK1