Originally founded as a small construction company in 1949, Nabholz is now a team of more than 800 industry leading professionals working together to serve our clients, communities, and each other. Over the last 65 years, we've grown into a national multi-service contractor offering a full range of construction, industrial, civil, and environmental services.
We are proud to offer you:
- Medical, Dental and Vision Care
- 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with Company Matching Contributions
- Long-Term Disability Insurance
- Company-Paid Life Insurance
- Supplemental Voluntary Life and Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance
- Dependent Voluntary Life Insurance
- Accident Elite Insurance
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Paid Holidays and Vacation
- Direct Deposit
- Wellness Program with Incentives
Typical Duties:
These are the areas you will be responsible for “owning” and developing to produce the necessary outcomes. We procure our projects by competitively creating written proposals that demonstrate our unique approach to solving our customers’ problems; your role will be to create these proposals in addition to developing exciting presentation media for our team.
- Become completely familiar with and thoroughly understand every element of the Customer’s proposal request and formulate our team’s approach to developing our response
- Providing technical writing, and editing to creatively communicate technical matters in an easy to understand language.
- Be the marketing lead person on individual project pursuit teams with responsibility to produce pre-qualification materials, proposals and presentation materials along with writing or developing key sections of proposals while coordinating the development of remaining sections that will be created by others.
- Production coordination, document management, and content development on client reports or proposal documentation
- Creating, accumulating and maintaining proposal resource materials. This includes project profiles, resumes, photos, and general company narratives including safety, environmental, quality management, project management, schedule, public involvement, field operations and community relations for SOQ and proposal use
- Play a key role as a team member in planning, organizing, coordinating, and implementing strategy for marketing and business development efforts including proposals, interviews, and project award submittals
- Researching, developing, writing, editing, and proofreading content for proposals, presentations, resumes, project descriptions, and related marketing materials of a complex nature.
- Applying creativity/strategic insight while participating in brainstorming, storyboarding, and other strategy development sessions.
- Utilizing corporate standards for your work while working creatively to present unique points to make us stand out when compared to our competitors
- Troubleshooting existing business development and proposal processes and systems to make improvements where possible.
- Updating and maintaining project information in the corporate document management system.
- Ensuring that marketing and visual presentation information and files are maintained and up-to-date.
- Social Media updates
- Formal and informal letter writing
- Being actively involved in the Nabholz marketing group by participating on task forces and committees, as available.
- Developing business development, marketing, facilitation, and writing skills through internal and external training sources and associations (SMPS, WTS, APMP or other related society) membership and committee involvement.
- Provides overall management of each individual pursuit design and production process with responsibility for quality, scheduling and on-time delivery.
- Works with the Business Development Manager to help develop and craft best in class messages, layouts and presentations of Nabholz themes, win strategies, ideas, skills and capabilities.
- Represents the marketing/proposal group as the subject matter expert and collaborates with other internal stakeholders to educate and share industry best practices.
- Attending evening functions, board meetings, and civic events outside normal business hours as required
Qualifications:
- You must have creativity to develop a fresh approach to “present” our company to others but working within our corporate standards, look and feel,
- Working well within a team is critical; there will be last minute changes, tight timelines and multiple activities happening at the same time,
- Social presence and persuasiveness; we want you to feel comfortable meeting with all personality types, enjoying the process of working as a team while contributing individually,
- Internal and external customer care is a key talent that must come naturally for you,
- Superior problem solving/problem prevention through forward looking, pro-active efforts.
Education and Experience Requirements
- Prefer 5 or more years of experience developing technical or marketing proposals or client deliverables for the A/E/C Industry
- Bachelor‘s degree required (Graphic Design, Journalism, Marketing, English, Communications, or related area of study is preferred). Significant work experience may be considered in lieu of a degree
- Strong research skills, and the ability to transform findings into meaningful strategy and proposal response
- Excellent command of grammar, the AP Style Manual, and spelling. Must have a strong working knowledge of InDesign, Word, Prezi, and PowerPoint; Experience with Keynote is preferred
- Must be able to follow work processes, maintain close attention to detail, and meet schedules under strict deadlines
- Understanding of the Architectural / Engineering / Construction industries a plus
- Formal meeting facilitation experience (preferred).
AA/EOE. Women, Minorities, Veterans, and Disabled People Encouraged to Apply
Employment at Nabholz is subject to post offer, pre-employment drug testing. Nabholz is a drug-free workplace and an E-Verify employer. The above description covers the principal duties and responsibilities of the job. The description shall not, however, be construed as a complete listing of all miscellaneous, incidental, or similar duties which may be required from day-to-day.