CannonDesign has an exciting opportunity for a Regional Marketing Team Leader based in our Chicago, IL office, and supporting our Chicago, Buffalo, and Toronto offices. Take a look at the description below. If you think your skills and experience make you a good match for this position, we’d love to hear from you. We’re looking for creative, curious, empathetic people to join our Living-Centered Design movement.
ABOUT OUR FIRM
CannonDesign is an integrated design solutions firm focused on helping people continuously flourish. Whether designing for innovations in health, new scientific discoveries, equity in education or the next big idea in business, we use our Living-Centered Design approach to help organizations realize widespread change. Our ability to design transformational places, plans and strategies is why Fast Company named us a World Changing Company and one of the most innovative design firms in the world.
ABOUT THE ROLE
As a Team Leader, you’ll be a regional leader and part of our Marketing Team, which sits within Brand, Marketing and Business Development (BMBD). You’ll join our regional team leaders in marketing and work in partnership with our markets, offices and services, who rely on our marketing talents to advance their message and win pursuits. You’ll collaborate across the BMBD community—with fellow team members in Marketing, Graphics, Communications, Operations, Market Strategy and Business Development—to deliver marketing excellence across proposals, presentations, collateral, local brand-building, community engagement efforts and more.
KEY COMPETENCIES
- Excellent interpersonal skills and sensitivity to the complexities of a multi-faceted firm
- Comfortable “managing up” and facilitating work with senior leaders to drive results
- A passion for managing and developing people as well as processes
- Strong speaking and writing skills—can communicate with impact and influence
- Able to prioritize, adjust to changing priorities and mobilize teams to deliver in a deadline-driven environment
- Able to use initiative and judgment to move things forward—can get “unstuck” independently
- Strong service orientation, work ethic and attention to detail
WHAT YOU WILL DO
LEADERSHIP
- Serve as a trusted advisor and strategic partner to regional leadership. Proactively and independently identify and analyze problems, develop solutions and deliver results.
- Participate as part of a Marketing Leadership Team in cascading initiatives and best practices to regions, as well as bringing forth new ideas and opportunities to evolve Marketing.
TEAM DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT
- Effectively build and manage a team—operational and culturally—ensuring that direct reports are empowered, engaged, respected and encouraged to grow in their expertise, experience and ability to contribute in new and meaningful ways.
- Manage Senior Marketing Specialists and Marketing Specialists in your respective region —balancing workloads, coaching and keeping an awareness of all team and office activity, and knowing when to intercede.
- In conjunction with Marketing leadership, coordinate needs assessments for new hires and work with human resources on recruiting, onboarding and integration into the BMBD team.
- Plan and facilitate training that supports continuous learning and future development of Marketing team members.
PROPOSAL AND BRAND MARKETING
- Maintain a careful watch over significant pursuits approaching, key pursuits in progress and our pursuit pipeline.
- Deliver strategic input for proposals considered “must wins” for the region. As needed, lead large, strategic and complex client pursuit and deliverable process from pre-positioning activities to proposal development through interview. Partner with Client Leaders and BMBD team members on deliverables and strategy, including interview coaching.
- Manage Senior/Marketing Specialists in the execution of proposals, interviews and other marketing materials using our design templates as inspiration and working within our brand standards.
- Lead and manage Senior/Marketing Specialists in local/regional marketing activities, such as sponsorships, award submissions, social media campaigns, events and photography, that align with our PR/Communications objectives and increase our brand visibility.
- Monitor key metrics—shortlisting, win rate, tracking “must wins” and more—to proactively identify opportunities to improve performance.
- Provide management and peer review and oversight for accuracy and quality of content.
FIRM KNOWLEDGE & SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTISE
- Develop advanced knowledge of firm portfolio, personnel and assets, with the ability to leverage for successful pursuits.
- Develop subject matter expertise (across markets, typologies, services, technology or other) that adds value to our marketing initiatives and pursuit activities.
ABOUT YOUR QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s degree in marketing or related field of expertise
- 9+ years’ experience in similar/related role in a professional services environment preferred
- Advanced working knowledge of MS Office applications (Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint) and Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign)
- Experience with CRM (Salesforce and/or MS Dynamics), Miro and Sharepoint is a plus
- Some travel may be required
ABOUT WORKING HERE
- We are relentless in our pursuit of client adoration (not simply satisfaction). Consistent delivery of the best service is what we are about.
- We are committed to ensuring our practice is equitable for all employees, representative of the communities around us – and focused on the future of design. We advocate for equity, diversity, and inclusion efforts through the leadership of our DEI Council, Employee Resource Groups and other community advocacy initiatives.
- We’re about communication and transparency here. If you want to talk to someone about an idea you have, or a challenge that needs addressing, we’re ready for you.
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As a condition of employment, all employees are expected to complete mandatory training, including compliance training, within required timeframes and adhere to our internal policies and our Code of Conduct.
CannonDesign recognizes the value of diversity in our workforce. We are committed to equal opportunity. We consider all qualified employment applicants without regard to race, religion, color, gender, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, partnership status, protected veteran status, disability, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law. Individuals who hold legal work authorization applicable to employment at CannonDesign in the United States will be considered without regard to citizenship/alienage.
