Senior Marketing Consultant

This Opportunity

WSP is hiring for a full-time Senior Marketing Consultant to join the Pacific Mountain West Strategic Growth team in our Seattle, WA office.

This is an opportunity to be a part of delivering critical infrastructure that supports the safe and sustainable growth of the communities in which we live, work and play with a focus on the Pacific Mountain West territory. The Senior Marketing Consultant will work with a variety of staff (from planners and engineers to designers and construction managers) across the vertical and horizontal infrastructure markets (Transportation, Water, Advisory, Energy, and Property and Buildings) to support and lead the development of proposals, qualification packages, award submittals, resumes, project descriptions, and data management. The Senior Marketing Consultant will be responsible for supporting or leading key pursuits, serving as a proposal manager and/or interview coach, and will work closely with the marketing manager to support successful implementation of strategic growth initiatives and client engagement plans.

We are looking for a motivated people-person with excellent writing and communication skills to lead the proposal process and support our fast-paced workflow. The position requires strong marketing and business development leadership skills for a large, multidisciplinary engineering operation. While our ideal candidate will bring experience in the AEC or professional services industries, what we're looking for someone who is collaborative, strategic, and has a special knack for creativity and persuasive storytelling. The right candidate will be an empathetic leader who works to build community through positivity and who can bring home the win!

This position offers opportunities for growth as an individual and as a professional. WSP's Strategic Growth Team philosophy allows for and supports the development of the individual, with many options for growth based on the individual's personal and professional goals (operational focus, staff development focus, strategy development focus).

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Your Impact

The main responsibilities for this position include

• Provide client management and pursuit strategy support to business leaders in the PMW territory

• Provide oversight for pursuits and proposal development

• Ensures the various aspects of proposals and other marketing materials are compliant, accurate, compelling, and delivered in a timely manner

• Works with individual pursuit teams to develop pursuit strategies, including providing business intelligence on clients, competitors and WSP

• Organizes and facilitates pursuit strategy meetings

• Collaborates with technical staff to write original content and reviews/edits content for clarity, compliance and key messages

• Organizes and coaches technical staff in the interview phase of a pursuit

• Supports client engagement teams by preparing materials for internal and external meetings, as well as participating in client engagement team meetings

• May supervise work of marketing coordinators (I, II and III)

• Follows WSP's high standards for ethical behavior and quality in all marketing activities

• Other duties as assigned

Who You Are

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

• Minimum 5-7 years of experience in the AEC industry preferred, background in journalism, publishing or communications ideal

• Experience supervising and developing marketing and business development acumen across technical and marketing teams

• Excellent communication and coordination skills (both oral and written)

• Proficient with Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suite, SharePoint, and other communications-related software programs

• Advanced skills in InDesign is a plus

• Possesses a strategic mindset

• Excellent organizational and editorial skills along with liaison capabilities and knowledge of business development procedures is required

• Demonstrated ability to lead large, diverse pursuit teams towards a positive outcome

• Demonstrated ability to handle multiple projects and details simultaneously

• Demonstrated experience managing standard and complex proposals from onset to conclusion with general guidance

• Strong interpersonal, organizational and time management skills

• Strong attention to detail and high level of accuracy in completing tasks

• Proficient in common grammar, punctuation, proofing and business writing

• Knowledge of AEC industry, terms, and definitions is highly desired

• Ability to produce high quality materials under deadline pressure

• Ability to train others on company policy and procedures

• Ability to work independently and as part of a team

• Willingness and ability to travel within the district and region, as needed

WSP Benefits

WSP provides a comprehensive suite of benefits focused on a providing health and financial stability throughout the employee's career. These benefits include coverage related to medical, dental, vision, disability, and life; retirement savings; paid sick leave; paid vacation (or other personal time); paid parental leave; and paid time off for purposes of bereavement, voting, and/or attendance at naturalization proceedings.

Compensation

Expected Salary (all locations): $87,400 - $116,000

WSP USA is providing the compensation range that the company in good faith believes it might pay and offer for this position, based on the successful applicant's education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities in addition to internal equity and specific geographic location. WSP USA reserves the right to ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and offer additional benefits and other compensation, depending on circumstances not related to an applicant's sex or other status protected by local, state, and/or federal law.

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About WSP

WSP USA is the U.S. operating company of WSP, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services firms. Dedicated to serving local communities, we are engineers, planners, technical experts, strategic advisors and construction management professionals. WSP USA designs lasting solutions in the buildings, transportation, energy, water and environment markets. With more than 15,000 employees in over 300 offices across the U.S., we partner with our clients to help communities prosper.

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WSP provides a flexible and agile workplace model while meeting client needs. Employees are also afforded a comprehensive suite of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, life, and retirement savings focused on providing health and financial stability throughout the employee's career.

At WSP, we want to give our employees the challenges they seek to grow their careers and knowledge base. Your daily contributions to your team will be essential in meeting client objectives, goals and challenges. Are you ready to get started?

WSP USA (and all of its U.S. companies) is an Equal Opportunity Employer Race/Age/Color/Religion/Sex/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity/National Origin/Disability or Protected Veteran Status.

The selected candidate must be authorized to work in the United States.

NOTICE TO THIRD PARTY AGENCIES:

WSP does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters, employment agencies, or other staffing services. Unsolicited resumes include any resume or hiring document sent to WSP in the absence of a signed Service Agreement where WSP has expressly requested recruitment/staffing services specific to the position at hand. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers or other business leaders, will become the property of WSP and WSP will have the right to hire that candidate without reservation - no fee or other compensation will be owed or paid to the recruiter, employment agency, or other staffing service.