Marketing & Proposal Manager

About the role

The Christman Company is seeking a Marketing & Proposal Manager in their Grand Rapids, MI office. This role involves leading the development of qualification statements, proposals, and presentation materials to pursue new project opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Create strategy and win themes for project pursuit deliverables including qualification statements, proposals, and presentation materials by leading pursuit teams and writing, editing, and graphic layout of the documents meeting all requirements, deadlines, and delivering the highest level of quality.
• Guide, coach, and manage the strategy and development of teams preparing for oral interviews as well as the materials used in delivering the presentations.
• Lead the development, writing and creation of custom marketing materials and deliverables such as brochures and other collateral materials to generate client focused messaging, visibility and brand awareness for the company in the local marketplace.
• Write regional marketing strategic plans, schedule and coordinate goals/objectives/tactics, work with regional teams and corporate integrated marketing representative to identify strategic markets, raise brand visibility and increase profitable wins.
• Lead and create marketing deliverables as identified in the regional marketing plan by crafting custom content for each local initiative, which can include social media, video content, press releases, on-site story generation, photography, signage, award submissions, web development (including regional pages) and more as identified, that meet the marketing directives defined in collaboration with the regional stakeholders.
• Engage clients serving as the local marketing expert by planning and delivering a variety of marketing experiences in the region including corporate events, project events, thank you gifts, client correspondence and proof of outcomes (storytelling to span construction and project completion).
• Make recommendations on the appropriate marketing strategy and deliverables to meet the needs of the region, using creativity and a strong knowledge of the marketplace.
• Use similar strategies and skills as outlined above, demonstrate a commitment to each project and work effectively to get the job done under all circumstances; ensuring that deliverables meet or exceed expectations and agreed-upon deadlines.
• Participate in corporate strategic planning, marketing department strategy, and marketing-team based initiatives as appropriate to support corporate objectives of growth, brand awareness and message consistency.
• Partner with creative design representative ensuring the best and highest use of established marketing brand standards.
• Support the business development and marketing outcomes of the whole company through a variety of other activities as necessary.

  Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Business, Communication, or related focus.
  • Minimum five (5) years of overall experience in related job field.
  • Must have knowledge of marketing and strategic planning with deliverables.
  • Minimum three (3) years of proposal development or other directly related experience.
  • Must have intermediate to advanced Adobe InDesign skills.
  • Minimum four (4) years of proposal-specific experience, including professional writing, editing and/or technical proposal development, and processes.
  • Advanced knowledge of MS Office Suite applications.
  • Advanced knowledge of other Adobe software, such as Acrobat, Photoshop, and Illustrator.

  Qualifications

  • Excellent oral and written communication skills; must be proficient in grammar, spelling and punctuation, and have accurate proofreading skills.
  • Strong project management and organizational skills, including attention to detail and ability to work with minimal supervision.
  • Strong interpersonal skills and effective relationship building capacity with internal team members at different levels in the organization as well as external partners.
  • Confident, consultative style in expressing opinions in a collaborative work environment.

  Skills

  • Strong project management and organizational skills.
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills.
  • Strong interpersonal skills and effective relationship building capacity.
  • Confident, consultative style in expressing opinions in a collaborative work environment.

  Benefits

  The Christman Company offers a comprehensive benefits program, including health insurance, 401K contribution, professional development and tuition reimbursement, and more. They are also an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer that is committed to diversity.

  Pay

  Details on pay are not specified in the job posting.

  Schedule

  Details on the schedule are not specified in the job posting.