Senior Marketing and Bid Coordinator

Fortitude Valley, QLD, Australia

Bligh Tanner is one of Australia’s most awarded engineering consultancies. We work on innovative and complex engineering projects, including engaging public artworks, playgrounds, solar farms, ecotourism projects, community facilities and the restoration of urban creeks.  We have a strong focus on projects that utilize our technical expertise and make a significant contribution to our society and the environment. 

The business has a proud 30-year history, and we’re looking for someone to help leverage this strong reputation and contribute to the next phase of the company’s success. At our core we are a company built around our culture and our people. We are inclusive, collaborative and believe in working together to solve complex problems. We seek to attract and retain the best talent available and invest in their development to ensure they have the training, tools and resources they need to perform at their potential.

We expect staff to become leaders in their fields, and we motivate and retain employees by providing a sense of genuine autonomy, mastery and purpose in their work.

The Bligh Tanner team members:

• are high performing individuals who operate well under pressure
• are collaborative rather than competitive 
• are inquisitive and seek to learn and evolve
• are solution-focused and display high integrity and resilience in dealing with unexpected challenges 
• welcome the opportunity to lead or contribute to projects
• have an attitude that no task is above or below them 
• have autonomy and a flexible work environment based on trust instead of rules 

We offer competitive salaries, flexible working conditions and open access to the business and industry leaders. We invest in the training and development of our people, and support developing specialist skills and project management skills. 

+ The Opportunity

This is a newly created position that will see you working in Bligh Tanner’s Fortitude Valley office, and taking responsibility for:

• Protecting and enhancing the Bligh Tanner brand.
• Executing a Marketing Plan aligned with Bligh Tanner’s strategic priorities, with an emphasis on face-to-face engagement between the Bligh Tanner team and our key clients and collaborators.
• Leading the preparation of engaging tender submissions. This will include monitoring tender opportunities, coordinating project teams and technical content, and ensuring Bligh Tanner’s key value proposition is articulated in a clear and compelling way.  
• Managing Bligh Tanner’s website and social media presence in line with the Marketing Plan. 
• Preparing marketing collateral.
• Ensuring the application of a consistent style guide across Bligh Tanner’s outputs (documents, drawings, presentations). 
• Additional tasks as required to support the effective functioning of the business.
  
  

+ About you

We’re looking for someone with a passion for branding and marketing, and who thrives on pressure, and enjoys the thrill of winning tenders. 

This person is calm under pressure, open and eager to problem solve. You will understand what it takes to keep the business and people running, you will know that no task is too small.

+ Selection Criteria - Please provide a written response to all selection criteria in your application

1. Tertiary Qualifications in Marketing or Communications with 5+ years’ experience
2. Experience in successful tender/bid preparation 
3. Strong written and oral communication skills 
4. Experience in the built environment sector
5. Graphic design skills 
   
   

+ Life At Bligh Tanner

We have strong values tied to our people, our work and our conscience. We are collaborative, inquisitive and hardworking. We want to ensure our people have everything they need to be successful professionally and personally.