Become Part of our Team

As an industry leader Balfour Beatty offers employees a comprehensive benefits package with competitive salaries and more including:

• Medical, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance 
• Health Savings Account
• 401(k) with company match
• Flexible Spending Accounts (Dependent & Medical Reimbursement)
• Vacation Time
• Sick Time
• Holidays
• Paid Personal Days
• Paid Volunteer time
• Tuition Assistance
• Employee Referral Bonus

Summary

At Howard S Wright Construction, a Balfour Beatty Company, we are seeking a Senior Marketing Project Lead. This role manages marketing and communications projects such as proposals, presentations, advertising, brochure development, events, direct mail or other marketing campaigns. In addition, the Senior Marketing Project Lead ensures adherence to company policies, consistency in message, and coordination of efforts in alignment with the BBC brand. Likewise, this role provides support services for acquiring new business and for internal and external communications.

Essential Functions 

• Assists Marketing Manager or Director with department administration activities (work flow and processes, delegating responsibilities among team members).
• Leads the preparation of responses to requests for proposals, qualifications, and other information required (schedule, plan, strategy, strip out assignments and follow-up, editing, kickoff/status meeting schedule, review, etc.).
• Assists with responses to requests for proposals, qualifications, and other information required.
• Works with executives and business unit leaders to support company’s visibility in target markets.
• Contributes ideas and development in the strategic planning process.
• Manages budget and financial accountability for projects as assigned.
• Improves, refines and updates boilerplate proposal information and presentations on a continual basis.
• Coordinates with team to ensure efficiencies in sharing and archiving resumes, proposals, presentations, boilerplate, graphics, debriefs, etc.
• Assists with presentation strategies.
• Establishes and maintain relationships with outside vendors including photographers, design consultants, printers and suppliers to support in-house resources.
• Establishes and maintain relationships with owner and design team partners in pursuing projects, responding to client requests, and coordinating events (team kick-off meetings, design-build proposals, final photography, award submittals, press release and direct mail review, etc.).
• Leads in internal and external communications projects including awards nominations, new people announcements, newsletter, website and direct mail, as assigned.
• Coordinates photo shoots (people and projects).
• Actively participates in industry association to professionally represent and promote Balfour Beatty either by committee involvement or committee/association leadership.
• Provides training and guidance to and review work of marketing coordinator(s) and/or senior marketing coordinator(s).
• Participates in Vision updates and maintenance.
• Builds effective relationships with customers, design team, subcontractors, suppliers, and user groups that reflect and support company core values and meets or exceeds the customer’s expectations.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in marketing, communications, technical writing or related field required.
• 6 years or more of marketing experience. 
• Proficiency using a personal computer (PC) and company communication tools, such as email, the internet, and Microsoft products (e.g., Word, Excel, Office, Outlook).
• Experience creating construction industry RFP responses and presentations.
• Experience with social media outlets such as LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook.
• Adobe CC – especially InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator.
• Experience maintaining database information.

 Preferred Experience

• Current or previous A/E/C industry marketing experience, highly desired. 
• Ability to collaborate and work independently and drive to be a positive team member.
• Very strong writing, editing and communication skills.
• Ability to maximize sponsorship/event exposure.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Promote our Code of Conduct and our Creed’s four pillars of Zero Harm, Zero Waste, Client Advocacy and Employee Inspiration.

About us

Balfour Beatty US is an industry-leading provider of general contracting, at-risk construction management and design-build services for public and private sector clients across the nation. Performing heavy civil and vertical construction, our teams build the unique structures and infrastructure that play an important role in how people live, work, learn and play in our communities. Our teammates have an instinctive passion for innovating that is fueled by a relentless curiosity, a drive to employ lean practices and processes and the determination to find a better way. Through Zero Harm®, we are challenging the construction industry’s assumptions about safety. We believe that no level of harm should come to anyone as a result of our business.

Consistently ranked among the nation’s largest building contractors, by Engineering News-Record, our US business is a subsidiary of London-based Balfour Beatty plc (LSE: BBY).

Balfour Beatty is an equal opportunity employer that recognizes the value of a diverse workforce. All qualified individuals will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other criteria protected by federal, state or local law.