Proposal Specialist

Messaging & Strategy

Analyze and interpret Practice portfolios and associated market expertise along with key trends and drivers that impact the market and translate them into actionable marketing content and win strategies.

Serve as the marketing liaison to studio principal(s).

Participate in brand building including the development of key market-level messaging.

Serve as a subject matter expert on, advocate, and actively follow marketing and brand guidelines and procedures.

Proposal and Pursuit Presentations

Serve as project manager for the coordination, writing, editing and production of statements of qualifications, proposals, presentations and other marketing collateral.

Guide the development and execution of go/no-go decision-making, planning, and win strategies to successfully capture work.

Participate in pre-interview planning and presentation rehearsal with design teams and help develop and apply the established win strategy in presentation materials.

Develop/maintain sector focused boilerplate to be used as master in proposals.

May lead the development of proposal sections of major strategic pursuits.

Coordinate, write, edit/tailor, and perform research for non-technical proposal sections.

Solicit and coordinate information from allied professionals, sub consultants and other team members for inclusion in proposal and presentation materials.

Information Systems & Administration

Maintain firmwide database with employe, project and proposal information.

Gather, format and maintain accurate, up-to-date firm marketing information including staff bios, project descriptions and statistics.

Qualifications

• Minimum of five years of related experience in the A/E/C industry required.
• Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, Journalism, Public Relations, English or related field (preferred).
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite and InDesign required.
• Knowledge of Dynamics and OpenAsset preferred.
• Excellent knowledge of marketing fundamentals.
• Solid understanding of A/E/C industry terminology and delivery methods.
• Able to understand the principles of layout and graphic as they relate to the development of marketing and sales collateral.
• Able to communicate complex concepts and storytelling in both written and graphic form.
• Excellent time and project management skills, passion for details and ability to work on multiple assignments simultaneously while maintaining a high level of quality and accuracy.
• The ability to think creatively and strategically.
• Strong technical, graphic, and presentation skills.