Head of Marketing for Infrastructure Advisory

Olathe, KS (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level12+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Lead Infrastructure Advisory marketing and demand-gen programs to support sales growth across global segments and campaigns.

  • Own global marketing strategy and demand campaigns for Infrastructure Advisory.
  • Must-have: 12+ years of progressive B2B marketing/management experience.
  • Standout: Large-scale, cross-functional program leadership with regional execution.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Building and advancing business relationships within Infrastructure Advisory including the President and leadership teams, solution and market teams, as well as key relationships with market segment Presidents and leadership teams throughout Black & Veatch to build value propositions and campaigns to cross-sell services.
  • Market research and understanding of target segments, organization types, buyer and influencer types and engagement opportunities. Responsible for understanding the current and emerging competitive landscape across market segments and buyer groups for Infrastructure Advisory.
  • Strategic marketing planning, campaign strategy, demand strategy, performance marketing, budget management and execution across global stakeholder groups.
  • Defining customer decisions journeys for services areas with sales and engagement touchpoints across the buyer cycle. The role will work closely with sales, client relationship and pursuit teams to provide campaigns and tools that support the sales and lifecycle processes.
  • Creating and testing messaging that resonates with audiences across the segments, subsegments and buyer groups targeted with Infrastructure Advisory services, and message consistency across all platforms and channels, including digital, print, and in-person communications.
  • Paid media strategies, tactics and measurements to monitor and adjust campaigns, promotions and spend as part of performance marketing cycles.
  • Outcomes-driven demand generation and funnel-building campaigns to build awareness of Black & Veatch Infrastructure Advisory business and its portfolios.
  • In-person and virtual events including industry trade and Black & Veatch hosted events supporting sales, client relationships, research and industry relations.
  • Presence and integration of Infrastructure Advisory services across the digital landscape with stakeholders including the full client lifecycle.
  • Keen understanding of sales and marketing metrics and ability to set and track KPIs throughout marketing performance lifecycles and make agile adjustments for continuous performance improvement.
  • Leading a small team of direct reports and a much larger team of influential functional and commercial partners in collaboration and execution.
  • Developing relationships and collaborating with marketing, business and regional teams, searching for win-wins to grow Infrastructure Advisory as part of segment value propositions.
  • Collaborating with marketing leaders and peers to build and execute marketing programs from start to finish, building consensus with stakeholder groups and strong internal communications networks with sales teams and account executives across the company.
  • Infrastructure Advisory portfolio positioning across applicable global markets including collaborating with regional sales and marketing leaders on regional/country-specific marketing plans.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in related field or equivalent experience.
  • 12+ years progressive management experience in related areas. Industry experience.
  • All applicants must be able to complete pre-employment onboarding requirements (if selected) which may include any/all of the following: criminal/civil background check, drug screen, and motor vehicle records search, in compliance with any applicable laws and regulations.

Preferred

  • Preferred Qualifications
  • — Proven record of building businesses and providing commercial support to grow new and current customer relationships within a matrix consulting organization.
  • — Experience working with infrastructure and energy solutions.
  • — Strong skills in writing in various mediums, message development, story and presentation development.
  • — Full strategic marketing planning and execution skill set.
  • — Technical aptitude to translate highly technical offerings into value propositions and content for targeted audiences.
  • — Strong project management, budgeting and measurement skills.
  • — Experience marketing professional and managed services as well as technical solutions.
  • — Minimum of 15 years of strategic marketing experience in B2B including strong digital marketing and demand generation experience.
  • — Bachelor's degree in marketing, marketing communications, business marketing or related field. Master’s degree preferred.
  • — Experience as a head of marketing in a matrix consulting organization with responsibilities across marketing domains supporting business sales, solution sales and regional account teams required.
  • — Advanced marketing communications skills include writing, presenting and speaking including courageous and polished strategy pitches to senior leadership.
  • — Advanced personal skills in excel required as well as analytics/data analysis skills.
  • — Previous successful experience in customer segmentation, analytics and campaigns leveraging MarTech and SalesTech systems such as Sales Force. Successful experience and ability to design and execute complex marketing campaign management across digital channels for client and prospect segments.
  • — Experience in partner and ecosystem marketing as well as client marketing including collaboration with marketing and sales executives on client value/story promotions and marketing tactics.
  • — Deep experience in demand generation includes building prospect and current customer engagement across traditional and new mediums including content strategy and architecture by organization type and role, outbound communications to clients and bi-directional client insight/experience loops to improve client satisfaction.
  • — Requires aptitude and discipline to autonomously research, explore, learn and understand the lifecycles of highly technical solutions and services.
  • — Experience building industry partner and sponsor relationships, developing creative new ways to reach key audiences with sponsor organizations and planning and executing virtual and in-person executive events.

Benefits

  • Our comprehensive benefits portfolio is a key component of this commitment and offers an array of health care benefits including but not limited to medical, dental and vision insurances along with disability and a robust wellness program.
  • To support a healthy work-life balance, we offer flexible work schedules, paid vacation and holiday time, sick time, and dependent sick time.
  • A variety of additional benefits are available to our professionals, including a company-matched 401k plan, adoption reimbursement, tuition reimbursement, vendor discounts, an employment referral program, AD&D insurance, pre-taxed accounts, voluntary legal plan and the B&V Credit Union. Professionals may also be eligible for a performance-based bonus program.
  • We are proud to be a 100 percent ESOP-owned company. As employee-owners, our professionals are empowered to drive not only their personal growth, but the company's long-term achievements - and they share in the financial rewards of the success through stock ownership.