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MARKETING MANAGER

OJB Landscape Architecture is seeking a Marketing Manager to be based in Solana Beach, CA. This hands-on leadership role is responsible for working with a team of dynamic and highly creative professionals with a focus on project pursuits, client communications, and collaborative engagement. As a full-time member of the Marketing Team, this person will be responsible for leading the proposal process, developing interview presentations, coordinating awards submissions, aligning messaging across all communications platforms to our brand, and communicating with leaders across the firm regarding market and project opportunities.

Job Functions: 

• Responsible for managing all stages of the proposal development process from prospect to interview. This will include preparing and developing content, graphic design, and layout to ensure compliance with solicitation documents, editing, and producing final deliverables within required timelines.

• Creating or offering suggestions for persuasive, strategic, and effective messaging, converting text to images/diagrams that will resonate with clients and align with OJB’s brand.
• Writing new text and/or tailoring existing materials, which may include interviewing staff/technical experts, to incorporate win strategies into text, meet RFP requirements, and provide customized, compelling, and effective RFP responses.

• Serving as a key member of the larger OJB marketing and business development team (Pursuit team), supporting firmwide marketing projects and efforts.
• Maintaining and developing new relationships with consultants, technical advisors, and other experts to assist the Pursuit Team in creating the most strategically positioned and technically competent team to win the work.
• Supporting lead tracking and marketing-related strategic decisions.
• Understanding the competitive environment as well as thoroughly researching the client groups to maximize project win potential.

At OJB, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants. OJB believes that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success as a company, and we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Landscape Architecture, Architecture, Interior Design, Graphic Design, Marketing, Journalism, Graphic Design, Communications or related field.
• A minimum of 5 years proposal and marketing experience in the design, engineering and construction industry is REQUIRED.
• Highly proficient in Adobe InDesign is REQUIRED.
• CRM experience preferred with Vantage Point CRM a plus.
• Excellent planning and organization skills.
• Ability to write and translate technical information in a variety of content styles.

Please apply by sending your resume to careers@ojb.com

About OJB

OJB Landscape Architecture is dedicated to creating landscapes that transform perspectives, evoke emotional responses, and create unique sensory experiences. The firm’s work imaginatively unifies the relationship between landscape and architecture, emphasizing place-making as a mechanism for healing, gathering, and celebration. With context and function always in mind, OJB seeks to creatively utilize materials that not only mitigate site and environmental challenges, but also promote healthy living. OJB is the recipient of more than 90 state and national design awards, including several prominent national awards for the creation of urban parks that return civic engagement to the forefront of cities. Notable awards include three ULI Urban Open Space Awards for Levy Park in Houston (2018), Myriad Gardens in Oklahoma City, OK (2015), and for Klyde Warren Park in Dallas (2014), among others. OJB was honored as the recipient of the ASLA Firm Award in 2015. In 2016, Jim Burnett was honored as the recipient of the prestigious ASLA Design Medal, an annual designation bestowed upon landscape architects for their ongoing commitment to the profession and an exemplary, sustained body of work.

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