Shape Your Career with CDM Smith Australia –Marketing and Growth Specialist

Melbourne- based

This is not a brochures-and-social-posts role

If you measure your success by the number of LinkedIn posts published or brochures produced, this role is not for you. If you measure it by work won, clients kept, and technical experts who are known in their market, read on.

CDM Smith Australia is a specialist environment, water, and digital consultancy. Our clients are mining companies, government, defence, utilities and energy proponents. They don’t buy our services because they saw an advertisement. They buy because they’ve heard of us, they trust us, they read something we wrote that made them think, or someone they respect recommended us.

We are looking for a Marketing and Growth Specialist who understands that distinction, and who can turn deep technical expertise into market influence and revenue.

What you’ll actually do

Become a student of our business. In your first three months you will learn enough about mining approvals, water resources, asset and mine closure, environmental planning, contaminated land and GIST to ask informed questions and spot opportunities. You won’t be the technical expert, but you will be able to explain what we do in plain language.

Build a thought leadership engine. Technical articles, client success stories, regulatory commentary, conference abstracts, webinars and expert profiles, planned on a calendar, not produced on request.

Sit with business development, not beside it. You will work directly with our National Sales Lead, Market Sector Leads,



Client Service Leads and Technical Practice Leads on target clients, upcoming opportunities and growth sectors.

Support pursuits and bids. Positioning material, capability statements, client-specific collateral and win-theme support for major submissions.

Interview technical people and write. You will sit with a Principal Hydrogeologist or Environmental Scientist, understand what makes their work matter, and publish something a client wants to read.

Build our sector presence. Speaking opportunities, industry roundtables, conference participation and sector campaigns that put our people in front of the right audiences.

Strengthen our employer brand. Support recruitment and retention in a competitive technical market.

Measure what matters. Report on business impact, pipeline influence, share of voice, qualified engagement, not activity volume.

What we’re looking for

We will prioritise the following over traditional marketing credentials:

Skilled services marketing experience, engineering, environmental, legal, technical or consulting

Exposure to business development, pursuits, bids or major submissions





The ability to interview technical specialists and write credibly about complex subject matter

Strategic thinking, you can connect a marketing activity to a commercial outcome and explain why.

Commercial curiosity and confidence to hold your own in a room with senior technical leaders

Self-direction, this is a national role with real autonomy and no large team behind you

Useful, but genuinely less important than people assume:

Graphic design, Adobe expertise, social media scheduling, event coordination and marketing automation platforms. These can be learned, supported by our global marketing resources, or outsourced.

Why CDM Smith Australia

A national SME with an ambitious growth plan, your work will be visible and will matter

Direct access and support from the senior leadership cohort

Genuine flexibility, hybrid working and flexible hours

A rare opportunity to build and shape the marketing function locally, backed by global expertise, brand strength and central design and digital support.

CDM Smith Australia is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and from candidates of all backgrounds.

Join Us – Make Your Mark

Ready to start your career with a team that values your potential? At CDM Smith Australia, we invest in our people and our clients by delivering sustainable solutions for industry’s toughest problems.

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If you want to be heard, valued, and inspired, let’s shape your NOW and your NEXT, together.

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📌 Marketing and Growth Specialist (Melbourne)
🏢 CDM Smith
📍 Melbourne