Marketing Manager

Dewberry • Rancho Cordova, CA

16d • $100,000 - $120,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Dewberry is seeking an experienced Marketing Manager to lead pursuit and proposal efforts supporting its Transportation, Construction Management, Environmental, and growth market sectors in California. The position is based in Rancho Cordova, California, with a hybrid schedule option. The role requires a marketing background in engineering, construction, or a related management consulting business. The Marketing Manager directs and quality-checks work by technical, proposal, and graphics staff from Dewberry, joint venture partners, and construction partners to produce compliant, compelling submittals.

The position works with Business Unit Managers, Project Managers, and subject matter experts to shape pursuit strategy, assemble teams, manage the proposal process, and develop responses. It oversees proposals from planning through submission and presentation, while managing capture plans, deadlines, meetings, and pursuit resources. The role also supports business development with market research and client intelligence, produces sales materials, and manages marketing coordinators and assistants. The ideal candidate is market-focused, self-directed, collaborative, and comfortable balancing multiple overlapping, deadline-driven assignments. Experience in collaborative delivery, heavy construction, or strategic pursuits is desired but not required.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of experience personally producing proposals and managing proposal efforts.
• Strong project management and organizational experience.
• Extensive experience with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Adobe InDesign.
• Exceptional written and oral communication skills.
• Effective proposal management skills, including planning, organization, problem identification and resolution, and resource management.
• Strong interpersonal skills and prior experience leading multidisciplinary teams and working collaboratively.
• Availability to work overtime as necessary to meet business requirements.
• Marketing background in engineering, construction, or a related management consulting business.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in collaborative delivery, heavy construction, or strategic pursuits.
• Experience with other graphics software and CRM databases.

Responsibilities

• Work with Business Unit Managers, Project Managers, and subject matter experts to determine forward-action decisions and pursuit win strategies, craft sales messages, assemble pursuit teams, manage proposal processes, and develop proposal responses.
• Manage the full proposal preparation life cycle, including state and local proposals, collaborative delivery proposals, technical proposals, qualification packages, and oral presentations.
• Manage capture plans, RFx directives, document cataloguing, individual and team deadlines, and meeting facilitation.
• Develop and maintain capture plans for critical pursuits and high-priority clients.
• Represent the firm appropriately with teaming partners and subcontractors, at events, and in business networking opportunities.
• Apply corporate standards to presentation graphics, proposals, resumes, and collateral materials.
• Write supporting sales materials, including project descriptions, resumes, service line overviews, and executive summaries.
• Support Business Development and operational personnel with market research, competitor analysis, and client intelligence.
• Manage marketing coordinators and assistants to meet proposal demands.
• Manage multiple proposal efforts and teams simultaneously across diverse markets and service offerings.
• Organize marketing materials for ease of use.

Benefits

• Hybrid schedule option.
• Work-life balance is a key value.
• Multiple marketing career paths, including training and flexibility to determine a career path within a growing team.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed