Marketing Coordinator

Summary Description:

Lamar Johnson Collaborative (LJC) is seeking a passionate Marketing Coordinator to join our dynamic team to support firmwide marketing efforts. This is a full-time position in which the ideal candidate understands the importance of meeting client and company goals from a branding and storytelling perspective. We are looking for a team player who can also work independently in a deadline-driven environment. Candidates must be curious, organized, and able to communicate clearly with colleagues and potential clients. We are looking for someone who shares our passion for creativity and can help us tell our visual and written stories while being able to develop a working knowledge of the industry. The position will be based out of our St. Louis or Chicago office.

LJC is a full-service architecture and design firm committed to creating and enhancing the quality of the human experience and improving how design and architecture can impact each individual's emotional being. Youthful in outlook, seasoned in experience, and innovative in approach, LJC offers its clients a diverse portfolio of expertise across a range of project scales and typologies, including commercial, industrial, institutional, residential and community.

LJC is the design practice of Clayco, a full-service, turnkey real estate development, masterplanning, architecture, engineering, and construction firm that safely delivers clients across North America the highest quality solutions on time, on budget, and above and beyond expectations. With $3.8 billion in revenue for 2020, Clayco specializes in the "art and science of building," providing fast track, efficient solutions for industrial, commercial, institutional and residential related building projects.

Responsibilities:

• Analyze, coordinate, and produce responses to RFPs and RFQs, often on tight deadlines.
• Work with senior market leaders, technical staff, and consultants across a variety of sectors to produce qualifications and proposal packages as well as presentations that meet the project specific requirements.
• Work with Marketing and Communications teams to create and write clear and compelling marketing collateral to support launches and updates of multiple projects in different markets for social media, website, and project pages
• Assist with other marketing efforts as they arise, including but not limited to award submissions, internal newsletters, and LJC's design annual publication.
• Write and/or update new project and personnel resumes to be used for marketing purposes.
• Contribute to the maintenance of CRM, Knowledge Management, and Marketing Drive, etc.
• Collaborate with designers, architects and other professionals on other projects as needed.
• Maintain LJC brand across all marketing channels.
• Manage multiple projects with varying timelines.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or Associate degree in Design, Marketing, or a related discipline
• 3 years of experience working in marketing in a professional service field, preferably in the built environment (architecture, engineering, construction, development, and/or real estate)
• Experience with producing and responding to RFP responses
• Ability to multi-task and work effectively in a creative environment with multiple deadlines
• Proficient with Adobe Creative Suite, particularly InDesign, and Microsoft Office Suite, preferably PowerPoint
• Graphic knowledge in layouts, typography and marketing design language
• Excellent writing, editing and proofreading skills
• Collaborative and proactive personality
• Conscientious problem solver
• Ability to work independently or as part of a team
• Excellent time management skills
• Detail oriented

Bonus:

• Knowledge of the AEC industry
• Experience in the AEC industry Marketing Department
• Experience with administering CRM programs (Deltek/Vantagepoint strongly preferred)