Reports To: Marketing Manager - West Region, Denver, CO
Location: Denver, CO (3 days onsite and 2 days WFH), no relocation available
To gain a full understanding of your work experience and goals, candidates must supply a cover letter with their resume and provide any past proposal writing experience to be considered.
How Your Role Will Shape Our Success
As a member of the corporate marketing team, this position will perform advanced marketing support and strategic initiatives for business development directors, marketing coordinators, and project managers in each of our six offices within the Western Region and companywide. Must be able to plan and execute marketing activities requiring independent judgment and adaptation of standard techniques that support a wide variety of marketing and storytelling initiatives. Majority of the marketing coordinator role is to create concise and compliant proposal and statement of qualification documents with the goal to win new projects.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
· Supports the project pursuit effort through a lead role in managing proposal activities towards the delivery of outstanding written content in response to Request for Information (RFIs), Request for Qualifications (RFQs), and Request for Proposals (RFPs), other similar project/client pursuits, and presentations/interviews. The marketing coordinator will work in a highly collaborative environment in which communication with key stakeholders and internal clients plays a key role. The marketing coordinator works within Strategic Pursuits in the Corporate Marketing Department while working across all departments in the company.
· Manages time-sensitive proposal activities and writes proposal sections and general marketing correspondence to include: resumes, project descriptions, boilerplate information, and social media announcements. Ensures the various aspects of the proposals (technical scope, staff qualification, experience, biographical data, etc.) and other marketing materials are accurate and delivered in a timely manner.
· Serves as the lead and final quality control for the delivery of outstanding marketing content related to proposals, qualifications, and similar business documents. Produce proposals, including typing, editing, graphics, reproduction, binding, and mailing/final delivery to ensure that all RFQ/RFP criteria are met. Identifies and complies with specific RFIs, RFQs, and RFPs response requirements including client-specific submission via online portal and/or mail delivery.
· Writes and edits new marketing content responsive to RFIs, RFQs, and RFPs questions. Ensures that all materials related to responding to RFPs, RFIs, and RFQs or similar documents meet firm consistency standards. Ensures that all materials related to responding to RFP, RFI, RFQs, or similar documents are excellent written representations Walker’s capabilities (i.e., putting the firm in the best possible position to win work through the RFP process) incorporating the company’s style and branding guides in a deadline driven environment.
· Maintains an up-to-date content library of prior responses. Maintains systems to extract, categorize, and retrieve information related to personnel, prior projects, prior submissions, consultants, boilerplate, visuals, etc.
· Coordinates project follow-up process to collect feedback, communicate lessons learned, trends and report results including tracking win/loss information and similar designations. Identifies opportunities to improve the process, tools and/or reference resources used to prepare proposals, presentations, pursuits, and other business development content. Develop marketing strategies that may include promotional campaigns, trends analysis, and client research.
· On-going maintenance of CRM proposal database (Deltek Vantagepoint), and media library (OpenAsset).
· Coordinate regional PR activities, including creating press releases and announcements and coordinating project awards and other special PR-related projects.
· Works independently and/or with technical staff, such as writers, graphic designers, and marketing assistants to develop proposal sections and scopes of work. Organizes technical staff in presentation rehearsals and provides coaching support.
· Tracks leads and follows up with regional team members, business development representatives, or managing principal on sales contacts.
· Coordinate special events and local conferences.
The ideal candidate will possess:
- Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, English, journalism, or equivalent experience.
- Minimum of 3-7 years of relevant proposal experience in marketing, within the A&E industry, is preferred but not required.
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite and working knowledge with Adobe InDesign Creative Suite.
- APMP or SMPS member preferred, but not required.
- Demonstrate interest and curiosity in the work that is reflected in the attention to detail.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, as well as organizational and problem-solving skills.
- Think creatively and strategically and successfully complete work in a team-based environment.
Compensation & Benefits
At Walker Consultants, we are committed to maintaining fairness and equity in our pay practices. For this role, the estimated base salary range is $60,000 – $70,000 per year. The final salary offered may vary based on factors such as experience, qualifications, skills, location, internal equity, and other considerations permitted by law. We value open conversations about compensation and welcome the opportunity to discuss more about base salary and Walker’s total rewards philosophy during the recruiting process.
We offer a robust total compensation and rewards package designed to support our employees’ well-being, growth, and diverse needs, including:
- Annual discretionary bonus program
- Opportunity to purchase Walker stock – Walker is 100% employee-owned!
- Medical, dental, vision, company-paid life insurance
- Mental wellness benefits
- Health Savings Account with company contribution
- 401(k) with company match
- Flexible Spending Accounts and Commuter Spending Accounts
- 529 college savings plan
- A minimum of 3 weeks of Paid Time Off per year
- 9 paid holidays per year, including 3 paid floating holidays
- 5 days of bereavement leave and PTO Donation Bank to help during difficult times
- 100% compensation replacement during short-term disability leaves
- Paid parental leave that allows an additional week of paid time alongside short-term disability leave and/or applicable state paid leave programs
- Paid community involvement hours
- Tuition and licensure reimbursement and sponsorship of professional memberships
- Internal conferences and professional development opportunities
- Employee Resource Groups and Affinity Groups
Why Walker Consultants?
Over the past 60 years, Walker has become recognized as a leader in the parking industry and provides a wide range of engineering, planning, and architecture services to facilities of all kinds. Walker also provides Forensic, Restoration, Building Envelope, and Vertical Transportation Consulting Services, a fast-growing part of our business in the last 10 years.
Walker hires exceptional people to remain among the top-performing firms in the business. We reward our employees for their effective contributions, challenge them, and provide professional development opportunities and the autonomy needed to grow. As a learning organization, our senior experts routinely share their knowledge in a collaborative environment, ensuring that best practices are carried forward to the next generation of leadership.
Walker is proud to be an employee-owned firm with an open-book philosophy that highly values integrity, honesty, and fairness. We encourage new ideas and contributions. We work hard and have fun doing what we love. This is who we are.
Join Us!
We know that great talent comes in many forms. If you're excited about this role but don’t meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply! You might just be the right person for this role—or another opportunity on our team.
At Walker Consultants, we are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive. We welcome and encourage applications from individuals of all abilities. If you require any accommodations during the application or interview process, or in the workplace, please let us know—we will work with you to ensure a fair and accessible experience.
Walker Consultants is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). We invite all qualified applicants to apply and do not discriminate against individuals because of their race, color, religion, national origin, gender, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or age.
