Senior Marketing Specialist

Summary

Join CannonDesign's Blue Cottage as a Senior Marketing Specialist and lead proposal development, brand marketing initiatives, and contribute to firm knowledge. You will collaborate with various teams, manage projects, and ensure marketing excellence across proposals, presentations, and collateral. This role requires a Bachelor's degree, 5+ years of relevant experience in professional services, and strong skills in strategic thinking, writing, and design. The position offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and remote work options. Preference is given to candidates with experience in AEC and those located near CannonDesign offices. Apply through CannonDesign's careers site.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in business, marketing, communications or a related field required
• A minimum of 5 years of related work experience required
• Related experience working in a marketing or communications role for a professional services firm required
• Must be proactive, self-driven, organized, detail-oriented and have an enthusiasm for innovation
• Strong time and project management skills are essential, along with the ability to work in a deadline-driven environment
• Must have the ability to drive large, complex pursuits end-to-end
• Solid skills in strategic thinking, writing and design—with the potential and/or interest to further develop/excel in at least one of these areas
• Strong proficiency with InDesign, Word, Excel and PowerPoint

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of proposal materials including coordination and production of deliverables across all stages of the process
• Drive large, strategic, and complex pursuit process from proposal coordination through interview. May lead visual theme and strategic messaging. Able to develop creative ideas for proposals and interview content
• Collaborate with Marketing teammates, other BMBD team members and Client Leaders to develop pursuit strategies—starting with client engagement, leading to proposal then interview—to secure the win
• Create and update resumes, portfolio pages, presentations and related marketing materials using our design templates as inspiration and working within our brand standards
• Participate in the development of collateral that supports our markets, offices, and services
• Provide marketing research for overall market/office strategy, as well as for individual clients and pursuits
• Lead local/regional marketing activities, such as sponsorships, award submissions, events and photography, that align with our PR/Communications objectives and increase our brand visibility
• Develop strong, in-depth knowledge of the firm’s portfolio, personnel and offerings
• Develop subject matter expertise (across markets, typologies, services, technology or other) that adds value to our marketing initiatives and pursuit activities
• Work with Regional Marketing Team Leader to support training and ongoing development of Marketing Specialists
• Provide peer review and oversight for accuracy and quality of content
• Self-review all work for accuracy and quality of content
• Maintain and update Salesforce for clients and pursuits
• Properly and accurately maintain a proposal filing system
• Internalizes marketing best practices
• May participate in external marketing activities
• May perform other duties as required

Preferred Qualifications

• 7 years of related work experience
• Related experience working in the Architecture, Engineering, and/or Construction industry
• Familiarity with Deltek CRM Vision, Salesforce and Miro

Benefits

• The salary range for this position is $71,300 to $89,100 annually
• Employees may be eligible for discretionary bonuses
• We offer a full benefit package including medical, dental and vision coverage and flexible spending account options and voluntary insurances
• We have paid time off, flex-time summer hours, remote work options and a 401k plan and employee perk programs