Job Description

The Practice

DIALOG is a multi-disciplinary collaborative of architects, interior designers, urban designers and planners, structural, mechanical and electrical engineers, and landscape architects who design for community wellbeing and urban vibrancy.

They are driven by design excellence and are creating places that positively impact the end-user as well as the environment. Their mission is to leverage the collective creativity and innovation within DIALOG to deliver design solutions to the many challenges we face globally - from climate change and equity to social wellbeing.

DIALOG professionals are passionate about design and believe it can and should meaningfully improve the wellbeing of our communities and the environment we all share.

True comradery is a tangible part of their culture that extends beyond departments or offices, and team members regularly collaborate across departments and studios in Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Toronto and San Francisco. Youll find the people you work alongside to be enthusiastic, energetic and down to earth, as they embrace the highest levels of professional and design excellence.

The Role

The Director, Marketing and Business Development is a key member of DIALOGs senior management team - operating practice-wide (i.e., global) - and will serve as a strategic collaborator and resource to the practices and its Partners. Reporting to the Managing Partner, the Director will lead an international team to support the organizations overall business objectives.

How you will make a difference:

By providing practice-wide leadership

• Build, lead, and nurture DIALOGs Marketing and Communications mandate, operating model, and team, including the creation and execution of targeted marketing and business development strategies, reputation-building, and internal and external communications.
• Steward DIALOGs multiple communication platforms, including DIALOG website, intranet, social media, marketing collaterals, award submissions, events, and relationships with our marketing and PR consultants.
• Articulate and execute practice-wide strategies to refine our market strategy, prioritize market sectors and project opportunities, clarify and express our value proposition, and elevate DIALOGs reputation in targeted sectors as a high-value, purpose-driven, design practice.

By enabling a high performing and aligned team

• Lead an international team; coaching, mentoring and promoting the highest level of service and support to the Partners in their marketing, business development and community/industry engagement efforts.
• Enable data-rich processes to allow us to track project opportunities, measure performance, identify trends, and inform our approaches and policies for continual improvement.
• Empower the strategic management of DIALOGs marketing investments and financial plans, including reporting and performance, and as applicable with resources including but not limited to vendors and suppliers.

By being highly collaborative

• Develop collaborative relationships and trust with DIALOGs Partners, Management Team, project teams, and other stakeholders to achieve the objectives outlined in DIALOGs Strategic Plan.
• Enable the highest level of service to Partners and project teams in their marketing, business development, and community/industry engagement efforts so that they are well equipped to position themselves in the marketplace and win work.
• Create and execute a Marketing and Communications Plan for DIALOG, with short-, medium-, and long-term horizons, working closely with the Managing Partner and Practice Chair.

Who you are:

• Creative and Strategic Thinker. Able to inform the prioritization of initiatives and efforts.
• Aspirational Leader. Able to guide the team towards effective execution, providing organizational capacity, leadership, and direction.
• Collaborative. Naturally engaging across the practice (and beyond) to generate the understanding, support, and buy-in needed to achieve ambitious goals. Able to provide leadership and work collaboratively with a diverse, geographically dispersed, and high-performing marketing and communications team.
• Experienced. Knowledgeable of the subject-matter means and methods, including traditional and emerging media - with minimum of 8 years Director level experience in a professional services organization overseeing strategic and operational marketing, business development, and communications functions. Experience with design practices an asset.
• Articulate. Strong communicator, through different platforms: presentations, written, interpersonal, and other.
• Positive. Dynamic, motivated, self-directed, and pro-active.
• Inspiring. With proven track record of coaching and motivating teams.
• Organized and Responsive. Able to manage a team across multiple studios and engage with the diverse needs of Partners.
• Versatile. Able to adapt to the needs and priorities of the practice as the role evolves, plans unfold, and success milestones are achieved.

Great package on offer with fantastic perks & benefits such as continued growth through Learning & Development support, RRSP matching and competitive medical and dental benefits coverage upon the first day of employment and a parental leave top-up program for all parents upon the birth or adoption of a child are just a few of the benefits that DIALOGers enjoy.

Equal Opportunity
DIALOG celebrates diversity and is an equal opportunity employer. They are committed to an inclusive environment for all, free of discrimination and harassment. Employment-related decisions are made without regard to sex, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, age and race.

Please apply now to this strategic role where you will add value and contribute to the firms long-term growth and strategy

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