Sr. Marketing Professional - Proposal Specialist

Job Description

DPR Construction is seeking a strategic, detail-driven senior marketing professional to join our team, with a strong focus on managing, developing, and producing high-quality proposals. The ideal candidate will embody DPR’s four core values: Integrity, Uniqueness, Enjoyment, and Ever Forward.

This role will support the Nashville Business Unit while also contributing to marketing efforts across the Southeast Region. A significant part of the role involves leading the pursuit process - collaborating closely with project teams to craft compelling, client-focused responses to RFQs and RFPs. The ideal candidate is highly organized, an exceptional writer, and thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment where juggling multiple deadlines is the norm.

The selected candidate will develop sales and marketing materials associated with project pursuits, including but not limited to:

• Qualifications packages

• RFP responses

• Interview presentations

• Developing project information pages for website use

• Coordinating occasional events

• Overseeing project photography and project storytelling

Key Responsibilities

Get Work: Work with the pursuit teams to coordinate and develop qualifications packages, RFP responses and interview presentations/materials:

• Work alongside the project pursuit team to develop a project-specific, cohesive message

• Clearly communicate the information, deliverables, and content needed from the pursuit team, including associated deadlines

• Work with the pursuit lead to identify marketing deliverables deadlines (i.e., when drafts are expected, track and communicate progress and needs to meet deadlines, etc.)

• Coordinate and bring all content and materials into a single, cohesive document or presentation

• Work with the business developer or core market lead to develop any pre-sell materials

• Oversee the integrity and consistency of corporate identity standards in all materials produced by the business unit

Do Work: Coordinate, capture and develop business unit specific content and materials that help build a consistent and positive brand image and support DPR's key messages and business objectives.

• Develop project specific stories and content that illustrate DPR's technical expertise and leadership both within the business unit and nationally 

• Maintain and update project information in the CRM system and ensure consistency throughout all materials

• Assist with coordination/support of occasional events (internal and external)

• Design and develop advertising for local publications

Take Care of People: Collaborate with and support fellow marketers and pursuit teams in developing marketing materials:

• Work with teams from different departments to coordinate pursuit efforts

• Support fellow marketing team members for even distribution of workload

• Be a strong internal and external ambassador for the marketing group and protector of the DPR brand, both professionally and with deliverables’ standards

• Demonstrate through collaboration and proactive work approaches the strategic importance of marketing

Skills:

• 5+ years of proposal-writing experience in the A/E/C industry

• Ability to effectively lead or support marketing efforts

• Strong organizational and communication skills (written and oral)

• Solid meeting facilitation skills

• Effective interpersonal and leadership skills

• Proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop), Word, PowerPoint and Excel

• Familiarity with CRMs (Cosential/Unanet preferred)

• Strong writing, editing, and graphic design/layout skills

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, or related field preferred

• Available for minimal travel

DPR Construction is a forward-thinking, self-performing general contractor specializing in technically complex and sustainable projects for the advanced technology, life sciences, healthcare, higher education and commercial markets. Founded in 1990, DPR is a great story of entrepreneurial success as a private, employee-owned company that has grown into a multi-billion-dollar family of companies with offices around the world.

Working at DPR, you'll have the chance to try new things, explore unique paths and shape your future. Here, we build opportunity together—by harnessing our talents, enabling curiosity and