Marketing Specialist
Posted 31ds ago
Employment Information
Job Description
Marketing Specialist for CannonDesign, supporting the Great Lakes region. Focused on collaboration and delivering marketing excellence across proposals and presentations.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and/or support the development of proposal materials including coordination and production of deliverables across all stages of the process.
- Assist with production tasks on complex pursuits in collaboration with pursuit team.
- 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.
- Support 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.
- 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.
- Establish highly responsive, trusted relationships with pursuit leaders.
- May participate in external marketing activities.
- May perform other duties as required.
- Travel may be required to CannonDesign offices in the Great Lakes region, including Chicago, Buffalo, and Pittsburgh.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, communications or a related field required.
- A minimum of 3 years of related work experience working in a marketing or communications role for a professional services firm/company required.
- Related experience working in the Architecture, Engineering, and/or Construction industry preferred.
- 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.
- Fundamental abilities in strategy, design, and writing, with demonstrated capacity for advancement in at least one of these areas.
- Proficiency with InDesign, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
- Familiarity with Deltek Vantagepoint, Sharepoint, Open Asset, and Miro is a plus.
Benefits:
- medical coverage
- dental coverage
- vision coverage
- flexible spending account options
- voluntary insurances
- paid time off
- flex-time schedules
- remote work options
- 401k plan
- employee perk programs


















