About the position
The Marketing Proposal Specialist partners closely with market sectors and their leaders as a trusted advisor and communication expert. Areas of focus include market research; identifying, vetting, and leading pursuits from first rumor to final outcome; strategizing and developing awards submissions and helping to build out our ever-growing collection of data to be leveraged in creative ways in the future.
Responsibilities
- Track project opportunities using systems relevant to the assigned projects.
- Manage, and serve as point person for pursuits, including managing the process of producing statements of qualifications and proposals.
- Coordinate efforts of teams comprising technical staff, marketing coworkers, and others as needed.
- In collaboration with pursuit champions, define strategy and contribute creative ideas for innovative delivery and communications approaches.
- Develop, author, or edit content; manage content delivery from teammates.
- Develop, format, and populate documents using InDesign, Google Slides, or other tools as determined on a case-by-case basis.
- Provide QA/QC.
- Ensure timely delivery and follow up communications.
- Coordinate and collaborate on interview prep.
- Engage in client and market research as directed.
- Facilitate business development and internal pursuit kickoff meetings.
- Manage social media platforms.
- Maintain Marketing infrastructure in collaboration with teammates, including project pages, resumes, boilerplate, graphic resources, and other ready-to-go content.
- Develop blogs, presentations for conferences and events, and other standalone reputation-building projects.
- Coordinate and develop awards submissions with design teams.
- Coordinate project photoshoots.
- Website maintenance as needed.
- Respond and redirect social media requests.
Requirements
- BS or BA degree in Marketing, Journalism, Communications, or a related field preferred.
- Minimum of 3 years’ professional experience in the marketing department or commensurate demonstrated experience.
- Advanced experience with the proposal process and interview preparation.
- Established familiarity and interest in best practices within the AE Marketing field.
- High level of skill with Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office Suite, and Google Slides required.
- Critical thinking, advanced writing skills, and verbal and written communications skills are indispensable.
- Editing and proofreading capabilities and experience juggling head-down and highly collaborative work will be extremely valuable.
- Familiarity with Deltek Vantagepoint preferred.
- Advanced creative and technical writing skills, grammar, and spelling, and editing and proofreading capabilities.
- Advanced verbal communication skills.
- Advanced ability to work under tight deadlines, coordinating several projects at once.
- Advanced project management skills: Ability to define tasks and timeline for getting projects to the finish line, and ability to execute, keeping projects on schedule and achieving defined objectives and milestones.
- Goal oriented, strategic thinker, self-directed.
- Established collaborative work style in a team environment.
