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Regional Marketing Manager - WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff - Chicago, IL

Regional Marketing Manager
WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff
Chicago, IL
WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff, one of the world's leading engineering and professional services consulting firms, provides services designed to transform the built environment and restore the natural one. The firm’s expertise ranges from environmental remediation and urban planning, to engineering iconic buildings and designing sustainable transport networks, to developing the energy sources of the future and enabling new ways of extracting essential resources. Approximately 34,500 employees, including engineers, technicians, scientists, architects, planners, surveyors, program and construction management professionals, as well as various environmental experts, work for this dynamic organization in more than 500 offices across 40 countries worldwide. wsp-pb.com/usa

WSP|Parsons Brinckerhoff is currently looking to hire a Regional Marketing Manager to work in the Chicago, IL office. The selected candidate will be responsible for the execution of marketing activities and working with the regional team to deliver annual sales and funding goals. The selected candidate will report to the Regional Business Development Director (RBDD).

Major Duties Include:

  • Lead the regional marketing team in the development of proposals and presentations that are responsive
  • Incorporate sales messages
  • Manages and develops marketing department staff that produce responses to solicitations and presentations
  • Serve as proposal manager and/or pursuit manager for multiple proposals
  • Work with area managers and local staff to identify growth opportunities and to better market and position the company in their communities
  • Drive the creation and delivery of exceptional marketing deliverables that incorporate the sales messaging and represent the value of selecting WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff to our clients.
  • Participate in developing business strategies and market initiatives that foster growth and cross-sector synergies across the WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff organization
  • Lead pursuit teams through the strategy development, execution, and marketing deliverable development implementation process on major projects
  • Ensure major pursuits are staffed appropriately, that pursuit managers are assigned early, and that pursuit progresses under the leadership of the pursuit manager
  • Ensure adherence to mandated business development processes and, with RBDD, create new processes as needed
  • Manage, lead, and develop sub-regional marketing managers, who manage marketing deliverable workload and have direct supervisory responsibility for marketing coordinators and graphic designers
  • Support RBDD and Regional Business Manager (RBM) with creating period reports (i.e., monthly management reports that present progress in key metrics)
  • Direct and work closely with marketing information administrator to develop reports necessary for understanding and communicating business development and marketing performance to RBDD, RBM, and Area Managers (AMs).
  • Other duties as assigned
Education Required:
Bachelor’s degree in professional services field such as engineering, planning, architecture, or marketing, communications, or a similar field

Experience/Skills Required:
A minimum of 10 years of experience in engineering, planning, and/or architecture or other directly related field

Must be able to perform all duties in the job description

EOE / Veteran/ Disability/ Gender (M-F)/Gender Identity/ Sexual Orientation

Details, here.