Marketing Specialist

Responsibilities

• Lead strategy and delivery for complex, high-priority, multi-consultant, and compressed-schedule pursuits.
• Partner with Principals and pursuit leaders to develop positioning, differentiators, win themes, content strategies, and pursuit plans.
• Provide strategic guidance throughout the pursuit lifecycle, helping teams identify the strongest approach for communicating qualifications, experience, and value.
• Facilitate pursuit planning and strategy discussions and translate strategic direction into clear, actionable proposal content.
• Support go/no-go discussions by contributing relevant pursuit knowledge, market context, competitive considerations, and resource implications.
• Exercise sound judgment in identifying pursuit risks, priorities, and opportunities and recommend appropriate approaches to pursuit teams and marketing leadership.
• Serve as a trusted marketing advisor and resource to Principals, technical staff, and pursuit teams.
• Lead development of proposals, qualifications packages, interviews, presentations, and other pursuit-related materials from strategy through final delivery.
• Write, edit, and refine persuasive, audience-focused content that clearly communicates the firm’s qualifications, experience, differentiators, and value.
• Translate complex technical information into clear and compelling messaging appropriate for client and selection-committee audiences.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with 5–7+ years of relevant marketing experience, preferably within the A/E/C industry , or equivalent relevant A/E/C marketing experience without a degree.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex, high-priority, multi-consultant pursuits under demanding schedules and deadline pressure.
• Strong understanding of pursuit strategy, positioning, differentiators, proposal development, and client-focused messaging.
• Exceptional writing, editing, and storytelling skills, with the ability to translate technical information into clear and persuasive marketing content.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor, coach, and develop less-experienced marketing professionals, with a genuine interest in helping others grow.
• Ability to provide constructive feedback, delegate effectively, and support team members in developing greater independence and professional judgment.
• Strong leadership, collaboration, facilitation, and interpersonal skills, including confidence working directly with Principals and senior technical staff.
• Strong working knowledge of proposal, qualifications, and solicitation compliance requirements.
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe InDesign and Acrobat for proposal production, document development, and quality control.
• Excellent organizational, prioritization, and project-management skills, with the ability to oversee multiple complex pursuits and competing priorities.

Preferred

• Familiarity with the SMPS Six Domains of Professional Services Marketing preferred; CPSM certification encouraged.

Benefits

• 7 paid holidays, and 2 floating holidays for you to use each year.
• 2 weeks of vacation annually, with competitive seniority-based accruals.
• 2 weeks of personal and sick time to care for yourself and your family members.
• KPFF will contribute 3% of your base salary to your 401 (k) regardless of your contribution.
• KPFF Paid Family Leave: Provides 60% of your base salary while on an approved leave for up to 6 weeks in a rolling 12-month period.
• 40-hour work schedule, Monday through Friday.
• Flexible scheduling – core hours of collaboration are 9:30-3:30 pm
• Professional certification bonus and testing fee reimbursement opportunities
• Monthly Cell Phone Stipend
• Monthly Way We Work stipend for remote work and transit expenses