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Marketing and Communications Manager

ESSENTIAL DUTIES:

• Energize Pankow’s brand and associated collateral to keep it fresh, relevant and accurate in connection with our Vision, Mission, Values and Strategic Goals.
• Maintain Pankow’s brand identity and voice by overseeing the development and maintenance of all brand marketing efforts for both external and internal audiences.
• Potential to manage two or more team members.

What You’ll Be Doing:

Primary Accountabilities

People and Team

• Mentor Marketing and Communications staff.
• Ability to manage and align the Marketing and Communications staff to meet priorities of business including key partnerships with internal stakeholders.

Proposals

• Continuously improve and maintain proposal process and best practices with Culture and Communications, Planning Operations and Building Operations teams.
  • Oversee all qualifications, proposal and presentation preparation activities; participate hands-on in the production of all qualifications, proposal and presentation deliverables to ensure a winning submittal.
  • Ensure all proposals have consistent visual identity and on-point messaging, as determined by corporate-wide standards.
  • Support project go/no-go decisions with department leadership; assess each potential pursuit in regard to its ability to meet the firm’s strategic positioning and goals.
  • Partner with Director of Construction Planning, Project Executives and Pursuit Leads from the beginning of pursuit process to ensure team unity in strategic messaging, standards/process and approach through completion.
  • Collaborate with project teams to provide support in the facilitation of interview strategy sessions and develop presentations to empower the team to deliver well-crafted messages.
  • Ensure right teams and team members are involved in the proposal and interview process in collaboration operations, preconstruction and project development leadership.

Brand Management

• Maintain Pankow’s image by overseeing the development and maintenance of all brand marketing efforts for both external and internal audiences.
  • Oversee all systems and processes related to collateral and database management.
  • Review, edit and approve all marketing and communications collateral to ensure the content is compelling and properly conveys Pankow’s brand.
  • Develop content for newsletters, brochures, electronic mailers and other materials.

Communication

• Support the Director of Culture and Communications to ensure Pankow maintains a single, consistent voice and brand in all of its communication in alignment with long-term marketing and communications plans.
  • Develop and manage content of written materials ensuring well-crafted narrative that reflect a fresh and up-to-date message to market, i.e. proposal narrative, press releases, award submittals, presentations, Thought Leadership (website) and social media.
  • Provide sound advice and effective communications planning; create and deliver the right messages to the right audiences in the right way at the right time.

About YOU:

Education/Training

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential functions of the job may be considered
• Degree in English, Journalism, Marketing or Communications preferred

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities

• Strong written communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal and verbal communications skills; must be comfortable and effective interacting with Executive Leadership team
• Requires outstanding interpersonal skills and the ability to work in a deadline-driven environment
• Exceptional presentation skills and a high level of comfort communicating with a variety of audiences
• Organization and flexibility are key; drive for results, a high-energy, “roll-up-your-sleeves” attitude, and commitment to success are imperative; planning acumen to meet deadlines
• Demonstrated skills as a writer/editor with knowledge to work with a wide range of communications vehicles, including video, PowerPoint, social media tools and electronic publications
• Proficiency in the following software: Adobe Creative Suite, Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Prezi
• Ability to successfully communicate with a broad spectrum of audiences including associates, management, subcontractors, business partners and community groups to reinforce the company’s values, goals and good working relationships
• Good listening skills
• Demonstrated commitment to ongoing learning and professional development

Work Experience

• 5+ years of progressively responsible communications experience, including direct experience working with senior leaders in support of their communications requirements
• Creative problem solver with superior ability to conceptualize corporate and technical concepts
• Must possess the graphic design, critical thinking and communication skills necessary to help develop and translate storyboarded ideas into concrete visual and word metaphors

Who Are You?

• Persistent
• Likes having more than one ball in the air at once
• Gets along with all and builds consensus among teams—enjoys using that skill to complete projects from A to Z
• You’ve founded things yourself and thrive on the ideation process, with tangible examples to back it up
• You’re used to getting compliments on your communications style—verbal, visual and written

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Job posted: 2021-03-24