Senior Manager of Strategic Marketing, Commercial & Institutional

About You

You are a strategic, highly driven marketing professional who understands that great marketing should directly support business growth. You bring 8+ years of marketing experience, ideally within the architecture, engineering, construction, commercial real estate, development, or related industries, and understand how complex capital projects come together.

You are equally comfortable developing strategy and executing the details. You can take complex project, design, and construction information and turn it into compelling stories that resonate with owners, developers, institutional leaders, architects, design professionals, and other key decision-makers. You take ownership, communicate with confidence, thrive in a fast-paced environment, and continuously look for ways to improve the playbook.

Most importantly, you see yourself as a business partner - someone who understands the connection between marketing, business development, and growth and is invested in delivering meaningful results.

A Day in the Life

As the Senior Manager, Strategic Marketing, you will serve as the dedicated marketing partner for ARCO's Commercial & Institutional sectors throughout the greater New York region. You will work closely with business development, pursuits, operations, and corporate marketing leaders to strengthen ARCO's brand, generate opportunities, and support strategic growth.

Your day-to-day responsibilities will include

• Develop and execute integrated marketing strategies aligned with the growth objectives of ARCO's Commercial & Institutional business.
• Build and manage marketing campaigns across digital, content, events, and direct channels, tracking performance, lead generation, pipeline contribution, and ROI.
• Develop positioning, messaging, thought leadership, case studies, technical content, presentations, and other materials that resonate with key decision-makers.
• Support business development through account-based marketing programs targeting corporate and workplace, higher education, healthcare, hospitality, retail, mixed-use, civic, cultural, institutional, and emerging markets.
• Attend project kickoffs and jobsites to understand ARCO's work and identify the stories, innovations, milestones, and outcomes that differentiate our projects.
• Turn project successes into compelling market-facing content through photography, video, digital content, signage, milestone activations, and other promotional efforts.
• Support strategic pursuits by developing proposals, capability statements, pursuit materials, and other client-specific content.
• Build relationships with owners, developers, architects, design firms, brokers, institutional leaders, and other industry influencers throughout the New York market.
• Support trade shows, industry events, association engagement, and sponsorships across the region.
• Monitor market trends and identify opportunities to expand ARCO's presence in established and emerging markets.
• Partner with corporate marketing and communications to maintain brand consistency while adapting messaging for local audiences.
• Provide leadership with clear reporting, insights, and recommendations on marketing performance and investment opportunities.

Necessary Qualifications

• 8+ years of marketing experience, with meaningful experience in architecture, engineering, construction, commercial real estate, development, or a related industry.
• Working knowledge of capital project execution, including design-build, EPCM, or comparable delivery models.
• Ability to communicate credibly about project lifecycle, design, cost, schedule, client objectives, and project risk.
• Experience marketing to or within commercial, institutional, corporate, higher education, healthcare, hospitality, retail, mixed-use, civic, cultural, or similar markets.
• Experience developing marketing programs and relationships within the New York or broader Northeast market.
• Proven ability to develop high-quality technical content, thought leadership, and marketing materials for senior-level audiences.
• Strong understanding of business development and how marketing supports revenue growth and strategic pursuits.
• Experience with CRM platforms; Microsoft Dynamics 365 preferred.
• Experience with marketing automation tools and digital marketing channels.
• Bachelor's degree in marketing, communications, business, or a related field; advanced degree a plus.
• Ability to travel throughout the New York region and domestically as needed.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, project management, organizational, and attention-to-detail skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, work independently, and thrive in a high-performance environment.

What We Can Offer You

At ARCO, you'll have the opportunity to play a meaningful role in shaping the marketing strategy for our growing Commercial & Institutional business in one of the country's most competitive construction markets. You'll work alongside experienced leaders and cross-functional teams while helping expand ARCO's presence across New York and the surrounding region.

We are dedicated to the well-being of our associates and are proud to be consistently recognized as a Best Place to Work. Our compensation and benefits package not only supports our associates and their families, but also benefits local communities and communities around the world.

• Industry-leading performance-based bonus program
• Employee Stock Ownership Program (ESOP)
• Traditional and Roth 401(k)
• Tuition reimbursement for associates
• Scholarship for associates' children up to $28,000 per child
• One-month paid sabbatical after every five years of employment, plus $5,000 for travel
• 15 business days of PTO, plus 8 paid holidays and 1 floating holiday
• One week of paid volunteer leave each year
• Family planning support
• 12 weeks of paid maternity leave
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage

Additional information

From recruiting, training, and hiring practices to selecting our subcontractors, we understand that diversity of all those involved in the construction process enhances our ability to deliver the best solutions to our customers. We hire the best and brightest from across the country, constructing a team of experts in architecture, design, engineering, project management, and business services.

Make Your Move

We are proud to be one of the fastest-growing, privately-owned companies in America, celebrating over 30 years of experience as design-build experts. We have completed over 7,500 design-build projects nationwide. We ranked #9 on ENR's Design-Build Firms list and #34 on ENR's Top 400 Contractors list of 2026. Most importantly, our clients like us, trust us, and want to do business with us.

We are looking for people with the same enthusiasm, passion, and respect for the hard work that brought us to where we are today. Are you a person who can make a difference at ARCO? If the answer is "Yes!" we look forward to meeting you.

ARCO does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third-party recruiting agencies without pre-approval from ARCO's Human Resources team. Pre-approval is required before any external candidate can be submitted. ARCO will not be responsible for fees related to unsolicited resumes and for candidates who are sent directly to our hiring managers. Agencies must have a fully executed vendor agreement in place as well as written approval to submit candidates from an ARCO TA Manager for a specific position before submitting candidates.