Senior Marketing and Proposals Specialist
- Vancouver, BC
- Permanent
- Temps-plein
- Oversee and/or lead the preparation of competitive proposals, qualification packages, and interview presentations delivered by the wider teams in Western Canada.
- Guide prepositioning and oversee bidding for major pursuits locally.
- Oversee and/or facilitates capture planning strategy sessions and assist in client and market focused research activities.
- Work with our technical leaders, guide the development of client-focused win strategies for proposals and statements of qualification to successfully capture work.
- Guide the development and execution of go/no-go decision-making.
- Oversee pre-interview planning and presentation rehearsal, and help develop and apply established win strategy, themes, and discriminators in presentation materials.
- Oversee the management and maintenance of collateral, provide feedback, and actively engage in improving our marketing content, including project sheets, resumes, and other collateral.
- Develop new marketing content such as presentations, brochures, and project examples to support Western Canada.
- Work with our Americas marketing team to bring the best of our global experience to our local clients.
- Captures project win nuggets to share internally and in collaboration with the broader MCBD team promote new project wins internally and externally, as appropriate.
- Maintain consistent quality, corporate identity, and graphic standards.
- Support the Head of Geography Marketing to ensure the geography team data is aligned with Client Systems processes.
- Responsible for ensuring Western Canada data quality meets global and regional standards.
- Degree, postgraduate qualification in Marketing, Communications, Business Development or other relevant qualification.
- Certification with APMP desirable.
- 7 or more years' experience working in pursuits and bids in the AEC industry or similar.
- Demonstrated experience in managing complex pursuits and bids.
- Experience of prepositioning and bidding lifecycle and bid delivery in Western Canada.
- Knowledge of current AEC bidding trends and procurement methods.
- Working with the technical staff and marketing team to ensure proposal process is followed, and to ensure quality and consistency in all proposal/qualifications documents.
- Conducting and tracking activities related to project pursuits in CRM pipeline management tools.
- Strong skills in analysis and problem-solving.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills.
- Proficiency in marketing and communications related technologies.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Ability to work under pressure and manage multiple priorities.
- Strong time management and people management skills
- Able to quickly build strong and highly collaborative and inclusive working relationships with peers, leaders and other stakeholders.
- High level of personal integrity, professionalism, and inclusive leadership.
- Commitment to exemplifying Arup's aims, particularly those of being a 'humane organisation', maintaining 'quality of work', and 'straight and honourable dealings'.