Business Attraction Program Manager
About The Position
The City and County of Denver is seeking a full-time, unlimited Program Manager to join their Business Attraction Team within Denver Economic Development and Opportunity (DEDO). This role will perform high-level economic development activities supporting the City’s business attraction, expansion, and retention efforts. The position involves managing domestic and global business attraction efforts, including coordinating promotional activities for Denver to businesses of various sizes and industries. The Business Attraction team focuses on identifying business prospects, promoting Denver's unique attributes, building stakeholder relationships, and responding to inquiries. Responsibilities include supporting business recruitment and retention campaigns, preparing briefings and remarks, managing prospect pipelines, and utilizing economic business incentive tools and CRM systems. The role may require travel up to 10-20% of the time and involves after-hours, off-site, and weekend events.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Public Administration, Management, Sociology, Psychology, Political Science, or a related field.
- Three (3) years of full performance professional level experience developing, implementing, and administering programs.
- Resume
- Cover letter with details about your local and international business relationship experience and your interest in the role.
Nice To Haves
- Extensive experience with program management working with business growth on a local and international level.
- A strong collaborative and team-focused mindset, where being adaptable, ease with fast paced and versatile cross-functional mobilization are strong suits.
- Bilingual skills are strongly desired, as well as cultural competency, and international business and diplomacy decorum.
- Experience with working at ease with VIP guests, visitors and foreign dignitaries.
- Well-networked and connected, with a strong familiarity with Denver businesses and the local Denver ecosystem and stakeholders.
- Professionalism and engagement.
- Strong desire and preferred experience working with C-suite-level and international businesses.
Responsibilities
- Conduct research for business prospects.
- Support preparation of presentation materials.
- Identify opportunities to lead business recruitment missions or participate in relevant conferences or tradeshow exhibitions.
- Coordinate logistics for business attraction activities.
- Actively participate in and respond to any additional downtown Denver economic projects.
- Identify opportunities, and present value-driven proposals to promote Denver as a destination for business expansion and growth.
- Guide new and existing businesses through the start-up, scale-up, relocation or expansion process.
- Provide site selection assistance.
- Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders when responding to RFPs, organizing site visits and when programming speaking engagements for executive leadership team.
- Maintain a wide and varied network of partners and serve as a liaison with other city departments and agencies to leverage networks and expertise when promoting Denver.
- Maintain organized records, documents, and project files to ensure accuracy and transparency.
- Manage Salesforce and ensure frequent entry of relevant data.
- Draft reports, briefing memos, event flyers, speaking remarks and data points.
- Work with DEDO’s Mar/Comms team to create social media content and business recruitment campaigns.
- Maintain updated content on marketing collateral including website information, rankings, and industry overviews.
- Assist with designing layout and creating content for marketing materials – both printed and electronic versions (including flyers, brochures, invitations, PowerPoint presentations, and website).
- Establish, enhance, and maintain relationships with local business leaders, commercial brokers, local Chambers, industry associations, business service providers, and Denver International Airport to strengthen understanding of the challenges, opportunities and shared efforts in sustaining our local business environment.
- Compile information for monthly reports and tracking monthly prospect information.
- Regularly attend community events to maintain and strengthen relationships with community partners, including after-hour events and activities.
- Conduct market research and analyze data to include in briefing papers, presentations, and for targeting foreign direct investment prospects.
- Collaborate with other DEDO teams and other city agencies.
- Respond to and compile information necessary for RFPs.
- Assist as needed with agency project deadlines and reports with a team-based approach.
Benefits
- Competitive pay
- Great benefits
- A guaranteed life-long monthly pension, once vested after 5 years of service
- 457B Retirement Plan
- 140 hours of PTO earned within first year
- 12 paid holidays
- 1 personal holiday
- 1 Wellness Day
- 1 volunteer day per year
- Competitive medical, dental and vision plans effective within 1 month of start date
- Flexible spending account option specifically for parking
- City-sponsored RTD EcoPass
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
