Marketing Advisor

Posted: 22 Nov 2011
Apply deadline: 20 Dec 2011
Location: Adelaide, SA, Australia

Job Description:

Golder Associates is one of the world's most respected ground engineering and environmental services companies and we are proud to have been delivering technical excellence to our clients for 50 years.

Golder Associates is seeking a Marketing Advisor to join their National Marketing team as a generalist, looking after the marketing requirements of Golder's Adelaide office and assisting with our newly opened Darwin office. With over 100 employees, the Adelaide office has enjoyed continued strong growth over the past two years and to support this growth, we are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic marketing professional.

This exciting opportunity is a 12 month maternity leave contract, commencing in February 2012. As the marketing resource for South Australia and the Northern Territory regions, this position offers a wide variety of opportunities working across a number of technical disciplines. Being part of a national marketing team of nine, with the National Marketing Manager based in our Brisbane office, the person in this role will have the benefit of being part of a supportive team environment. As a global organisation, the person in this role will be involved in contributing to national and often global projects.

Responsibilities:


- Provide strategic marketing advice and seeking opportunities and activities to increase brand awareness;

- Prepare marketing plans (incorporating communications plan) and assist to drive actions;

- Build strong relationships with key internal stakeholders, including engineers, scientists, business development leaders and the Human Resources Department;

- Conduct client and market research to support business development and relationship building efforts;

- Contribute to the Australian marketing intranet site and related content and initiatives;

- Manage/oversee local compliance with global templates and style guidelines;

- Coordinate advertisement design and placement working with Golder's graphic designer;

- Proactively seek to identify media opportunities (such as topics for editorial comment, potential articles and press release topics);

- Identify and maximise opportunities to increase Golder's profile through memberships of related Associations;

- Preparation of marketing collateral eg: Brochures;

- Review and manage sponsorship opportunities and participation at relevant industry conferences in conjunction with administrative support;

- Provide support for significant Tenders, Expressions of Interest and Statements of Qualifications, including review of resumes;

- Identify, co-ordinate and prepare Award submissions;

- Assist with co-ordination of client functions, including seminars;

- Assist local Human Development with recruitment related branding requirements, advertising and recruitment fairs;

- Seek opportunities and co-ordinate advertisements;

- Ensure contact management data is maintained, with administrative support.

Job Requirements:

Ideally, you will have at least five years experience, preferably with exposure to a variety of marketing functions including the preparation of proposals and other credentialing materials, event and sponsorship co-ordination, database management, research and planning support.

You will also possess the following:

- Qualifications in Marketing or a related discipline along with demonstrated experience (ideally in a professional services environment);

- Strong communication skills - both written and verbal;

- Strong interpersonal and influencing skills;

- An eye for detail;

- Skills in project management/co-ordination with a focus on delivery;

- Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team;


- Ability to work to tight timeframes;
- Enthusiasm;

- Experience using Microsoft Office products.

Additional Information:

As mentioned above, Golder Associates is one of the world's most respected ground engineering and environmental services companies and we are proud to have been delivering technical excellence to our clients for 50 years. We offer a unique employee-owned structure that encourages all our people to become stakeholders in Golder Associates and to help shape the company's future.

Golder Associates recognises excellence and rewards innovation. We support our people's professional and personal growth every step of the way.

The winner of 12 BRW Client Choice awards, our unique, employee-owned culture fosters technical excellence. We continue to expand, now operating in more than 160 offices located throughout Africa, Asia, Australiasia, Europe, North America and South America.

Golder Associates' staff benefits include:

- Career and personal development opportunities and support.

- Employee mentoring program.

- Work life balance initiatives such as additional leave options.

- Corporate fitness programs and subsidised gym memberships.

- Option to purchase shares in Golder Associates.

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