Washington Water Marketing Services Manager

At HDR, our employee-owners are fully engaged in creating a welcoming environment where each of us is valued and respected, a place where everyone is empowered to bring their authentic selves and novel ideas to work every day. As we foster a culture of inclusion throughout our company and within our communities, we constantly ask ourselves: What is our impact on the world?

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We believe water is more than a resource, it's a shared responsibility. As part of our Water Business Group, you'll help shape how communities manage water for generations to come. From delivering safe drinking water and treating wastewater responsibly to developing sustainable water supplies and protecting lives and property through flood control, your work will directly support public health, environmental sustainability, and infrastructure resilience. We bring together experts across disciplines to solve complex challenges with bold thinking and technical excellence. Whether you're modernizing aging systems or pioneering innovative approaches, your contributions will make a meaningful difference in people's lives. This isn't just a job, it's a chance to lead change, drive progress, and leave a lasting legacy.

Each and every role throughout our organization makes a difference in our ability to change the world for the better. Read further to learn how you could help make great things possible not only in your community, but around the world.

In the role of Washington Water Marketing Services Manager, we'll count on you to:

• Lead, mentor, and supervise proposal and marketing staff, including hiring, onboarding, workload management, and professional development.
• Apply HDR's go/no-go process and oversee capture planning to shape win strategies, key messaging, and pursuit direction.

Guide teams in developing compliant, persuasive proposal and interview materials, including schedules, quality reviews, and interview coaching.

• Engage and coordinate appropriate marketing services resources across all pursuits in the Washington WBG.
• Build scalable processes, workflows, tools, and templates (including AI enabled solutions) to improve marketing and proposal efficiency.
• Facilitate debriefs, track competitiveness, and celebrate pursuit milestones and successes.
• Support strategic planning, growth initiatives, client plans, and business development relationship-building (including teaming partners).
• Develop marketing collateral, digital content, thought leadership pieces, and brand elevating campaigns, including conference and association engagement.
• Manage CRM and financial systems to support reporting, dashboards, and informed decision-making.
• Coordinate internal communications, meetings, photography, branded materials, and other marketing or business development needs as assigned.
• Other duties as assigned.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field: Marketing, English, Journalism, Communications.
• Deep knowledge of A/E/C industry procurement and professional services.
• 10 years leading or managing proposal efforts or relevant industry experience.
• Proven self starter with a record of delivering high quality work with limited oversight.
• Demonstrated ability to motivate, mentor, and inspire teams in fast paced, deadline driven environments.
• Experience in sales and developing effective capture and win strategies.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; proficient in Microsoft Office and Adobe InDesign.
• Demonstrated success securing high value contracts and writing compelling content based on technical input.

Required Qualifications

• A minimum of 8 years relevant industry experience
• Demonstrated "self-starter" with a history of completing projects with limited oversight
• Demonstrated ability to motivate and inspire others
• Experience in sales and developing effective win strategies
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications, including Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Proficient in Adobe Creative Cloud applications, including InDesign
• Ability and desire to travel and engage with others in-person
• Demonstrated experience in winning high-value contracts in the A/E/C industry
• Demonstrated experience in writing compelling content based on information from technical staff

What We Believe

HDR is our company. Together, we build on each other's life experiences and perspectives to make great things possible every day. This shapes our collaborative culture, encourages organizational trust and connects us closer to the clients and communities we serve.

Our Commitment

As employee owners, we all have a role in creating an inclusive environment where each of us is welcomed, valued, respected and empowered to bring our authentic selves to work every day.

Our eight Employee Network Groups (Asian Pacific, Black, Hispanic/Latino(a), LGBTQ , People with Disabilities, Veterans, Women, Young Professionals) help create a sense of belonging and foster a supportive environment where everyone is empowered to engage and contribute. Each group has an executive sponsor and is open to all employees.