Marketing Manager – Chicago
Would you like to play an influential role in an exceptional design firm?
Do you enjoy using your marketing and communications skills to develop core messages that shape perception and drive client development?
Are you a connection-maker and catalyst who is eager to identify and pursue client and project development opportunities?
Are you seeking not just another job, but an opportunity to grow with a firm and become part of a culture in which architecture is intended to inspire and improve life?
Krueck + Sexton would like to know more about you.
K+S is seeking an experienced professional with the talent and experience to work closely within their leadership group to guide the firm’s marketing and business development strategies.
A Transparent House II • Gulf Coast FL
© Bill Zbaren, 2016
130 North Franklin • Chicago IL
© Krueck + Sexton, 2016
Role + Responsibilities
The Marketing Manager should be self-motivated, organized, and detail-oriented, with strengths in traditional and digital marketing, communications, and social engagement. In addition, the Marketing Manager must understand, embrace, and communicate the spirit of the Krueck + Sexton practice, characterized by a flawless aesthetic, impeccable detailing, functional and technical excellence, fulfillment of purpose, and a dedication to the art of building.
Marketing + Business Development Leadership
- Pursue strategic initiatives for client acquisition and maintenance
- Elevate the K+S message to the community and public/client realm
- Engage in ear-to-the-ground networking to get an early “scoop” on project leads
- Identify, research, and follow-up on project leads
- Plan and execute internal strategy and planning sessions
- Conduct project/client research, intelligence, and discovery
- Execute publicity campaigns for completed projects, including editorial and awards submissions
Marketing Resources Management
- Provide updates during monthly management meetings
- Develop and review the marketing budget with principals
- Work with principals to track business development activities
- Work with principals, senior staff, and other marketing/PR team members to design, write, and produce proposals, presentations, and other marketing collateral
- Script and coach interview presentations
- Solicit, write, and produce RFQ and RFP responses
- Drive preparation of award nomination materials
- Serve as internal resource for the firm’s portfolio
- Liaise with PR and BD consultants as required
“We hold the belief that the qualities which define architectural excellence — relevance, form, light and shade, fitness of structure, materiality, propoertion, balance — are based on universal truths and are not influenced by style or fashion of any architectural era. The fruits of this belief are timeless structures and spaces that are — as a result — beautiful.”
In Pursuit of Excellence
Krueck + Sexton has a highly collaborative studio model that reflects its core values and hands-on working style, enabling them to produce a body of work noted for thoughtful and provocative exploration of the possibilities of Modernism.
The Marketing Manager will collaborate with the partners and staff who seek to inspire one another while sharing new ideas, creating innovative design, and doing what they love.
Their core values —
- Their collaborators are the firm’s greatest asset
- They foster personal and professional growth
- They are committed to applying scientific methods in design and work.
- Their joint aim is to become wiser and faster
- They preserve their core values and purpose while adapting their business strategies and operating practices in an endlessly changing world