About the role
This is a varied and exciting position in which you will support the London marketing and business development team, engaging with studio staff as well as the wider marketing and communications teams around the practice to streamline BDP’s work-winning efforts.
This role would suit someone looking to start their career in marketing, and give the ideal candidate the opportunity to learn and develop their knowledge and skills across client focused marketing tasks within a global context.
The role will involve feeding into bids and preparing documents in Word, Powerpoint and InDesign, maintaining marketing collateral, maintaining marketing database and registrations on client portals and assisting at events as well as other marketing related tasks.
You will be organised and methodical with strong writing and interpersonal skills. Prior marketing roles and experience within the design or construction industry would be ideal but other backgrounds will be considered.
Tasks:
1. Support the North marketing team in the bid process. This will include reading and understanding key bid deliverables, helping produce and format content for submission documents
2. Coordinating and preparing marketing materials
3. Helping organise internal and external events
4. Collating and maintaining sector / group / professional marketing information on BDP Marketing Information Systems
5. Tracking industry events and updating relevant calendars
6. Supporting client-focused marketing and business development initiatives
7. Supporting other marketers around the practice in marketing related tasks if required.
Skills:
8. Excellent communication skills, especially written English
9. Organised and methodical
10. Ability to compile, edit and proofread texts
11. Experience working in Microsoft Office applications (Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel) and Adobe applications (InDesign knowledge would be advantageous)
12. Willingness to learn and use BDP’s Marketing Information Management systems effectively (Open Asset, Zoho, Deltek) and provide guidance to other staff in their proper use
13. Ability to manage workload and work under pressure and meet deadlines
14. Ability to work collaboratively as part of a team
15. Possess a proactive, understanding and flexible approach to dealing with issues and achieving collective goals
16. Ability to act in a confidential manner when dealing with all BDP activities and not divulge any information concerning the work being undertaken or any other BDP business, either internally or externally.
BDP offers
In return, BDP can offer you a wide range of learning opportunities to encourage personal and professional career development. From sponsorship to profession-led events, we also offer annual appraisals and a mentoring program which is supported by our online internal learning platform.
We are committed to being an employer of choice and offer a competitive remuneration and benefits package as well as interesting work, a rewarding and friendly environment, excellent office space, and a respect for the work-life balance of our people through hybrid working. All permanent employees can participate in BDP’s stakeholder pension arrangement to which the company contributes, the BDP Profit Share Scheme and tax-efficient Smart Benefits, Life Insurance, Long Term Sickness Insurance, Private Medical insurance and health screening, interest-free season ticket loans and enhanced maternity and paternity provision, plus many more.
We offer regular international and studio-based social, sporting, and charitable activities. Some recent events include themed month-end socials, a hiking club, weekly complimentary yoga, wellbeing webinars, and toolbox talks. Our variety of employee forums drives the development of new ideas, giving everyone the platform to have a voice and be heard. To find out in more detail about what BDP can offer you, please follow: https://www.bdp.com/en/careers-at-bdp/why-join-bdp