Marketing Manager

Philadelphia, PA (Hybrid)

$95K/yr – $111K/yrMid Level7+ years exp

Posted 4 days ago

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Job Summary

The role owns and elevates pursuit operations across marketing management, strategy and growth initiatives, guiding a regional pursuit team, managing workloads and deliverables, shaping go/no-go and win strategies, and driving market-expansion efforts.

  • Pursuit leadership and team development
  • data-driven pursuit execution and asset management
  • go/no-go, capture planning, and win-strategy focus

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Marketing Management (40%): Coaches and mentors the regional pursuit team, focusing on continuous professional growth, tailored development opportunities, and goal setting
  • Manages regional pursuit workloads, balancing resource allocation, team capacity, and project priorities
  • Oversees quality control for pursuit-related deliverables and ensures critical data and marketing assets are accurately maintained in core systems
  • Partners with marketing leadership across regions to elevate best practices, streamline tools, and build team effectiveness
  • Pursuit Strategy & Execution (40%): Partners with studio and business leaders to develop and execute pursuit, interview, and client engagement strategies
  • Guides strategic go/no-go discussions, capture planning, and win strategy development
  • Coaches pursuit teams in developing compelling proposals, presentations, and interview content
  • Monitors pursuit performance metrics, win rates, and pipeline activity to identify trends and inform strategic decision-making
  • Prepositioning & Growth Strategy (20%): Leads or supports lead tracking, opportunity research, competitive intelligence, and capture planning efforts
  • Partners with regional and firmwide leadership to identify market trends, client opportunities, and strategic marketing initiatives that advance regional growth objectives

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Communications, or related field required
  • Minimum of 7 years of work experience in the A/E/C industry required
  • Minimum of 3 to 5 years of management experience required
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite and InDesign required
  • CPSM certification preferred
  • The ability to successfully mentor staff in a manner that supports continuous learning, team collaboration and career development
  • Excellent time and project management skills, passion for details and ability to work on multiple assignments simultaneously while maintaining a high level of quality and accuracy
  • The ability to think creatively and strategically
  • Strong technical, graphic, and presentation skills

Preferred

  • CPSM certification preferred
  • Experience with CRM, digital asset management, and proposal automation systems such as Microsoft Dynamics, OpenAsset, or similar platforms preferred

Benefits

  • flexible scheduling
  • hybrid work environment
  • 3 weeks of PTO within your first year of employment with the option of purchasing additional time off
  • 8 paid federal holidays
  • 15 extra Fridays off
  • medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • wellbeing resources
  • paid parental leave
  • flex spending account
  • voluntary insurance options
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SmithGroup is an award-winning, multi-national integrated design firm that employs research, data, advanced technologies and design thinking to help clients solve their greatest challenges. Working across 20 locations throughout the U.S., our network of 1,600 experts is committed to excellence in strategy, design and delivery. Across more than 20 design disciplines, we work collaboratively and creatively, sharing ideas and learning from one another. Our integrated design approach blends aesthetics with performance, sustainability, and resiliency to create a better tomorrow—for clients, employees, the community, the environment, and our collective future. Our unique culture and impact on the built environment have received recognition from top-ranking institutions, publications and design authorities the world over. In 2025, we were named a Top Workplace in the United States by Energage and USA Today.

Detroit, Michigan, USA
1.9K employees (768 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
57.4K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
48.3%
Direct
44.7%
Referral
5.6%
Social
0.7%
Paid
0.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~1.9K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
34 (2% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

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