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AHBL Marketing Proposal Manager in Tacoma, Washington
Do you enjoy applying your superior skills to new challenges? Are you looking for a nimble firm where you can work closely with clients, stakeholders, and internal team members? Would you enjoy teaming up with people in multiple departments to help get projects from a concept to being built? If so, we're AHBL and we've been looking for you! At AHBL, we're not just shaping cities - we're creating vibrant communities where the work is rewarding, and every project is an adventure. Our teams enjoy coming to work and flourish through innovation and creativity. Join us and be part of a dynamic company that's as enthusiastic about transforming and designing spaces as we are about our daily office banter and team-building activities. We're a multi-disciplined engineering, planning, landscape architecture, and land surveying firm that has been offering creative design solutions to public and private sector clients since 1969. AHBL has consistently been recognized as one of the premier local consulting firms in the Northwest and a top place to work. Our people love it here because we don't do cookie-cutter work; we work collaboratively on the most diverse, complex, and fascinating projects. WHAT YOU WILL DO The Marketing Proposal Manager is an integral part of the marketing team and a key leader in communicating the AHBL Mission & Vision, culture, capabilities, and competitive differences to current and potential clients, to the extended A/E/C, development, and owner community and internally to AHBL employees. The Marketing Proposal Manager manages the scheduling and preparation of proposals as well as the end-to-end process to ensure a quality product (meeting all internal QA/QC processes) that meets our clients' expectations. In addition to proposals, this position manages rosters, statements of qualifications, subconsultant qualifications and presentation development that supports of all our disciplines across the organization. If you enjoy working with a team that values creativity, where successes are celebrated, and the team supports each other through challenges, then AHBL is the place for you! In this role you will: manage and assign proposals, rosters and SOQs to yourself and marketing coordinator staff; ensure workload balancing across the department; contribute to strategic discussions on winning pursuit strategies and coordinating proposals; manage the end-to-end proposal/interview process from initial planning through delivery for all aspects related to the proposal process including proposal outline, kick-off meetings with technical staff, project scheduling, quality control reviews, workflow, presentation boards, interview materials, and resource requirements; communicate status to marketing director and team in weekly meetings; lead the collection and assembly of materials for proposals and SOQs; prepare proposal materials by writing drafts of the project organization, related experience, and qualifications sections; engage the Marketing Coordinators to support on-going proposal and business development efforts by sector; drive business results through business development efforts for all assigned business sectors; work independently and collaboratively to develop marketing initiatives for all assigned market sectors; and host monthly marketing meetings as assigned; distribute and communicate after action reporting for all internal and external meetings. WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR Organized: A highly organized, self-starter that communicates extremely well to help us drive projects to completion. Thorough: You take care to review the details because you know that details make a project successful. Passion: A genuine enthusiasm and a desire to make a positive impact in the communities we serve. Fast-paced: Our work is often on a critical path for clients, so our schedules can be compressed. You love a deadline and rise to the occasion when the pr