Marketing & Business Development Director at GPAC

Job Summary:                     

Our client is local to Kansas City and is a full-service architecture and engineering firm that specializes in the design of Public Safety, Senior Living, Municipal/Government, Education, Recreation, Industrial, Office/Workplace, Healthcare, Financial Institutions, Multi-Family, and Hospitality projects throughout the region. Their growing firm offers an engaging and collaborative environment with the opportunity to work on impactful and gratifying projects across the country. Not only do they work hard to provide the highest level of service to their clients, they also believe in a positive work culture, camaraderie, and having a lot of fun along the way. 

Marketing & Business Development Director Requirements:

• Strong skills and experience with Adobe Suite, notably InDesign and Photoshop.
• Strong skills and experience with Wordpress and creating/maintaining web site content.
• Strengths for success: strong interpersonal and communication skills, design and creative skills, tip of the spear proactive nature and instincts, having a spirit of inquiry and determination, strong planning and organizations skills, meeting deadlines, follow-up with clients and partners.
• Degree in marketing, communications, journalism, business development, and graphic design. 
• 3-5 years of relavent experience.

Marketing & Business Development Director Responsibilities:

• Working with principals, identify, cultivate and secure project opportunities through direct outreach, trade shows, partners, EDCs and our other business organizations.
• Lead RFQ process within our firm and coordinate all engineering and other needed specialty partners. Responsible for all RFQ content and managing process including client engagement, submittals and interviews.
• Working with our principals, identify strategic partners in our top project types. Includes consultants, other specialty service providers, suppliers and others.
• Develop strategy and all content to keep our website updated with our most current and significant work and other branding content.
• Maintain strong relationships with our EDC partners to ensure we secure targeted projects and see the needed ROI from our memberships.
• Develop strategy and all content, coordinate and attend trade shows to support our efforts in top markets. Currently we attend six trade shows per year.

Architectural Designer Compensation:

• Negotiable depending upon experience.
• Excellent benefits package (401k, Health, Dental, profit sharing).

For more information or to be considered for this opportunity, please apply or reach out directly to Zach Huisken at

All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, age, color, sex (including pregnancy), religion, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, military status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable laws or regulations.

GPAC (Growing People and Companies) is an award-winning search firm specializing in placing quality professionals within multiple industries across the United States since 1990. We are extremely competitive, client-focused and realize that our value is in our ability to deliver the right solutions at the right time.