This opportunity is with a Chicago-based and employee-owned professional engineering firm. This firm is actively working with federal, state, and local governments to improve rail corridors and implement enhanced passenger and freight rail services.
Since its founding, this firm has expanded nationally with 8 offices comprised of professionals dedicated to rail planning, engineering, and program management making us one of the largest "pure" rail engineering firms in the Midwest. In 2016, this firm established a structural engineering division, featuring a team with over 40 years of experience in the transportation industry on bridge and structural engineering solutions.
This firm is looking for an experienced marketing and proposal coordinator to assist the team in developing dynamic client presentations to win the job!
Qualifications:
* Transportation industry experience
* BA/BS, preferably in Journalism, English, Communications, Marketing, or a related field plus a minimum of 2 years of managing design proposals, in particular winning work for transportation projects.
* US Citizenship is required
* The initiative, skill, and personal commitment to manage multiple projects and details concurrently, follow up, and bring tasks and projects to full completion
* Ability to produce accurate, compliant, and compelling work independently and with others
* Proven organizational and administrative skills, including the ability to complete varied work tasks on schedule, and lead deliverable efforts by others; and the proven ability to manage documents
* An ability to meet non-negotiable client deadlines, sometimes with very fast turnaround times
* Experience demonstrating leadership qualities
Responsibilities:
* This position will develop and coordinate proposals for multiple transportation business opportunities, edit technical sections, provide creative layouts, and organize large amounts of information for the pursuit team
* Manage the end-to-end proposal/interview process from initial planning through delivery for all aspects related to the proposal process including proposal storyboarding, outline, schedules, workflow, and graphic resource requirements
* Develop proposal messaging (written and visual), write original content, and collaborate with graphic designers and other proposal coordinators when necessary
* Provide QC review on proposal materials developed by other proposal coordinators within Transportation Team
* Work with technical staff to develop strategic win plans
* Conduct market research to assist technical staff in identifying and prioritizing clients and key pursuits
* Work with technical staff to develop consistent content to carry over from statements of qualifications, proposals, and interview presentations
* Coordinate and organize large amounts of technical information, including photography, external sub-consultant data, and marketing materials including brochures, posters, etc
* Develop, conceptualize, and collaboratively work with the graphics team to create visually appealing marketing material
* Collaborate with technical staff and graphic designers to develop and complete Award submissions for technical associations and trade publications through the entire process to final delivery after approval
Benefits & Perks:
- ESOP employee program
- COMPETITIVE SALARY
- Health care Benefits
- Relocation Assistance
- PTO package
- Company outings& events
- Public and private clients including Michigan DOT, Wisconsin DOT, Illinois DOT, Indiana DOT, Ohio DOT, Minnesota DOT, Iowa DOT, Missouri DOT, Colorado DOT, and Pennsylvania DOT
Do not hesitate to apply!
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