Water Marketing Coordinator

About the Role

As a Marketing Coordinator within HDR's Water Business Group, you will support business development, marketing, and pursuit activities. You will work alongside business development leaders, project managers, marketers, and technical professionals to strengthen client relationships, elevate HDR's brand, and position HDR for success in the marketplace. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to a variety of marketing and business development initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

CRM & Marketing Systems

• Maintain accurate client, contact, opportunity, project and resume information within client relationship management and business development systems.
• Support business development reporting, metrics and dashboards through effective management of client relationship management and financial systems.

Proposal & Pursuit Support

• Monitor client, agency and industry websites for procurement opportunities, solicitation status, capital programs, strategic initiatives and market developments.
• Support pursuit teams in developing persuasive qualifications, proposals, interview materials and presentations.
• Coordinate proposal schedules, compliance requirements, content collection, document production and submittal activities.
• Assist pursuit teams with client-focused messaging, win themes, differentiators and presentation development.
• Support interview preparation, rehearsal coordination, presentation materials and logistics.
• Organize and maintain proposal, presentation and marketing resources.
• Administer implementation of the go/no-go decision process.

Internal and External Communication

• Support development of engaging internal communications, presentations, webinars and meeting materials related to Water Business Group growth and marketing activities.
• Support external marketing and business development activities.
• Research clients, funding opportunities, market trends and competitors.
• Support development and implementation of client plans, including tracking outreach activities, client intelligence and follow-up actions.
• Support solicitation and documentation of formal client feedback.
• Support development of annual and long-term strategic plans and implementation of approved growth initiatives and investments.

Conferences, Industry Engagement & Brand Visibility

• Coordinate HDR participation in water industry conferences, workshops, association events, client outreach activities and community engagement opportunities.
• Support fulfillment of conference sponsorship benefits, including speaker coordination, promotional materials, exhibit logistics and post-event follow-up.
• Assist with development and promotion of conference abstracts, technical presentations, award submissions, articles and other thought leadership content.
• Support content marketing and social media campaigns.
• Coordinate development of marketing collateral, digital content, project photography and visual assets.
• Support local and regional market visibility efforts through engagement with industry associations including CWEA, AWWA, APWA, WEF, WateReuse, CASQA.
• Maintain inventory of branded materials.

General

• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements & Tech Stack

Required Qualifications

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications, including Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Proficient in Adobe Creative Cloud applications, including InDesign.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong writing, editing, and storytelling skills.
• Strong time management, organizational and marketing communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work under tight deadlines.
• Willingness to travel within the Southern California Area as needed.
• Ability to compose documents onscreen and to communicate graphically.
• Ability to work collaboratively with technical professionals, business development leaders and marketing team members.
• Interpersonal and communications skills with people both inside and outside the firm including clients and sub-consultants.
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize, and work independently as well as in team environments.
• Enjoy working with different personality styles and management levels.
• Requires little or no direction in area of specialization.
• Positive outlook and attitude.
• Experience supporting pursuit planning and proposal development for competitive A/E/C pursuits.
• Water industry experience a plus.
• Demonstrated experience in writing compelling content based on information from technical staff.