Marketing Specialist I

Marketing Specialist I

Gilbane Building Company is seeking an enthusiastic Marketing Specialist I to support our efforts in developing sales, marketing, and communication deliverables in our Cleveland office. In this role, you will collaborate with local teams and departments within the organization. Additionally, you will create engaging deliverables that align with the company's growth goals and enhance the value we provide our clients. This position will maintain a visible and consistent presence in the office.

As a Top-10 ENR Contractor, Gilbane is a family-owned business with 45 offices that has been shaping communities since 1870. Consistently recognized as one of the most reputable construction management firms in the country, Gilbane is committed to delivering projects safely and on-time. You will have the opportunity to build schools, labs, hospitals, corporate offices, sports arenas and more.

We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

You are someone who acts inclusively, showing empathy and treating others with respect and dignity in order to uphold Gilbane's core value of Caring and "People First" workplace culture. You seek to listen in order to understand and can convey information clearly. You're a strong problem solver who can identify, prioritize, and implement alternatives for solutions, and you demonstrate adaptability by collaborating with others and supporting team members to achieve excellence. A self-starter who shows passion, commitment, and ownership all while delivering on business outcomes and driving results. You're someone who identifies opportunities for new and improved ways of doing things that result in value-add solutions.

Your core values match Gilbane's: Integrity, Caring, Teamwork, Toughmindedness, Dedication to Excellence, Discipline, Loyalty, and Entrepreneurship.

Gilbane offers employees multi-dimensional training opportunities through a number of resources. While managing your responsibilities to projects, you will be able to enroll in trainings through our award-winning Gilbane University to build leadership and technical skills. In addition, you would work with an experienced team which provides you with the opportunity to learn new industry skills every day. You will protect and promote the interests of both Gilbane and the client in all matters as well as demonstrating the personal characteristics of a developing leader.

Responsibilities

1. Support the development and production of client qualifications, proposals, and presentations with a focus on quality, creativity, and meeting client deadlines.
2. Develop the ability to tell stories—stories about clients, projects, people, and Gilbane—and incorporate these differentiators into deliverables that address each client's unique needs.
3. Ensure all external content and client deliverables align with Gilbane's brand standards and messaging guidelines.
4. Support the development of marketing content, including branded collateral, blog posts, social media posts, award submissions, and basic graphic design work, to increase Gilbane's market visibility.
5. Support the development of internal and external communications, including assisting with newsletter content development, press release writing, and creating basic content for the Gilbane website, social media, and other digital channels.
6. Organize and maintain digital assets, ensuring all photos, graphics, and media are approved, properly categorized, and easily searchable.
7. Support data maintenance and perform in-depth research of projects, team members, and market sectors utilizing our data management systems.
8. Coordinate and organize the high volume of information we collect for each of our projects and team members to ensure data integrity.
9. Assist close-out process of sales and marketing deliverables.
10. Develop a basic understanding of the AEC industry and Gilbane's capabilities across each sector, locally and nationally.
11. Begin to foster strong local relationships with operations to facilitate storytelling and identify value adds about our projects.
12. Begin to visit jobsites on a regular basis to build relationships with operations and enhance industry acumen.
13. Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality external content and client deliverables, ensuring clear communication, mutual support, and a cohesive approach to problem-solving.
14. Support multiple deliverables concurrently and has a strong ability to multi-task.
15. Participate in professional or community organizations.

Qualifications

• Associate's or Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, or related field
• 0-2 years relevant experience in the marketing and/or AEC industry
• Or equivalent combination of education and experience

Skills and Competencies:

• Technical Skills: Basic understanding and working knowledge of Adobe Create Suite, PPT, Canva, and Unanet
• Professional Development: Time management, organization, communication, writing, and teamwork
• Business Acumen: Basic understanding of Gilbane services; basic knowledge of key disciplines: marketing, internal and external communications, presentation, proposals

Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data. This role is open to the Cleveland, Ohio office location.

Gilbane offers an excellent total compensation package which includes competitive health and welfare benefits and a generous profit-sharing/401k plan. We invest in our employees' education and have built Gilbane University into a top training organization in the construction industry. Qualified applicants who are offered a position must pass a pre-employment substance abuse test.

Gilbane is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or disability status.