Senior Client Marketing Coordinator at Arup

The Opportunity

We are currently recruiting a multi-disciplinary team to drive the growth of our sustainable development services in the global south with a particular focus on climate and sustainability, cities planning and design and economic advisory services. This role will form part of a network charged with building strong relations with key clients – to work with them and the wider Arup business to tackle complex challenges and improve project and programme level outcomes.

Within this role you will be supporting a small number of international development and public sector client relationships that have been prioritised by the Global South Director and country offices in Africa for the impact they can have on the UN Sustainable Development goals with focus varying from insight gathering and research supporting the development of the engagement plan, stakeholder and perception mapping through to executing highly targeted campaigns and direct engagement with the client to improve positioning and influence. These include multilateral, national, sub-national, private and NGO / academic actors. The objective is to further Arup’s profile and work winning success as the sustainable development consultancy of choice in emerging markets with a particular focus on climate and sustainability, urbanisation ad economic advisory services. This is an exciting opportunity in the early stages of developing our client programme and expanding our client marketing expertise.

This position is based in the South African, Johannesburg office and responsible for driving Arup’s business in the space.

Is this role right for you?

We are looking for individuals with the following experience –

• Developing and implementing strategic engagement plans that deliver a deep understanding of target client programs and priorities to extend business and partnership opportunities with these clients creating measurable influence and impact through growth in revenue, relationship and reputation
• Knowledge and experience of International development clients and the public sector along with strong sustainable development related experience
• Confident abilities in designing and delivering strategic engagement plans
• Excellent grasp of the Sustainable Development goals and the potential that infrastructure and the built environment might play in contributing to these
• Working closely and collaborating with Sustainable Development and country office leads as well as client relationship teams, other client marketers, client coordinators and other business development professionals for insight gathering and research supporting the development of the client engagement plan