Senior Marketing and Proposal Specialist

Description

• Planning, organizing, coordinating, and implementing strategies for marketing and business development efforts throughout the firm's West Central Region.
• Developing business development, marketing, facilitation, and writing skills through internal and external training sources and associations membership and committee involvement.
• Updating information in the CDM Smith firmwide database of resumes, project descriptions, proposals and qualification packages, and maintaining marketing and visual presentation information.
• Applying creativity/strategic vision and a theme-based approach to lead brainstorming, storyboarding, and other strategy development sessions.
• Being actively involved in the CDM Smith marketing discipline group by participating on task forces and committees, as available.
• Developing, writing, editing, and proofreading content for proposals, presentations, resumes, project descriptions, and related marketing materials of a complex nature for our municipal water and environmental clients.

Requirements

• Ability to effectively coordinate projects by communicating with remote team members.
• Experience with business development/marketing process models (such as Dag Knudsen, Miller-Heiman, Shipley).
• Practical experience in facilitating large and small groups in strategy and proposal development.
• Bachelor's degree.
• Excellent command of grammar and spelling.
• Excellent command of grammar, the AP Style Manual, and spelling.
• Proficient in MS Office 365, Adobe Creative Suite, and SharePoint applications.
• Demonstrated knowledge of business development models.
• Ability to organize, negotiate, and drive proposal schedules.
• 6 years of related experience.
• B.A. or B.S. in Communications, English, Business, Journalism or related degree.
• Proficient in MS Office 365, Adobe Creative Cloud, and SharePoint applications; advanced skills in Adobe InDesign, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft PowerPoint, including use of styles and templates.
• Equivalent additional directly related experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Previous experience working for an architectural, engineering, or construction firm.
• Ability to facilitate discussions and participate as a contributing member of a team.
• The ability to organize and negotiate on project schedules and manage multiple deadlines and assignments.
• Experience in editing/proofreading narrative written by technical professionals.
• The ability to work under rigid time constraints where a narrow margin for errors or delays is allowed.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance