The Project Manager is a key member of the centralized Marketing and Brand Experience Project Management Office (PMO), responsible for leading Tier 1 and Tier 2 campaign initiatives from intake through delivery across the communications and marketing function at Leidos.
This role partners closely with Brand, Marketing, Creative, Digital, Experience, Technology, and internal and external partners to bring structure, visibility, and coordination to complex, cross-functional work. The Senior Project Manager ensures initiatives are clearly scoped, prioritized, and executed efficiently while helping protect team capacity and reduce last-minute disruption.
The role is highly collaborative and delivery-focused, balancing strategic planning with hands-on execution. The Project Manager also plays an important role in shaping PMO standards, workflows, and reporting, using the project management tool (Workfront) to drive consistency and transparency across function-wide delivery.
Responsibilities
Project Leadership & Delivery (40%)
- Lead Tier 1 and Tier 2 campaign initiatives from intake through completion
- Translate intake requests into clear scopes, timelines, and delivery plans
- Manage milestones, dependencies, risks, and issue resolution across workstreams
- Ensure initiatives deliver against defined objectives, timelines, and success metrics
Intake, Planning & Prioritization (20%)
- Partner with PMO leadership to review intake, confirm project tiering, and align on prioritization
- Support planning decisions based on capacity, urgency, and business impact
- Ensure work entering execution is approved, ready, and clearly defined
Stakeholder & Cross-Functional Coordination (20%)
- Serve as the primary point of contact for assigned initiatives
- Coordinate closely with Brand, Marketing, Creative, Digital, Experience, Technology, and vendor partners
- Manage stakeholder expectations and communicate risks, changes, and trade-offs proactively
Tools, Reporting & Process Improvement (20%)
- Manage initiatives within the project management tool (Workfront), maintaining accurate timelines, statuses, and documentation
- Contribute to PMO reporting, dashboards, and portfolio visibility
- Identify opportunities to improve workflows, templates, and delivery standards
- Support adoption of PMO processes and best practices across MBX
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, business, or a related field and 8+ years of experience in project management, marketing operations, or a related discipline. Additional years of experience will be considered in lieu of degree requirements.
- Demonstrated experience leading complex, cross-functional campaign or initiative delivery
- Hands-on experience using project management tools to manage intake, timelines, and reporting (Workfront preferred)
- Strong organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills
- Proven ability to manage multiple initiatives simultaneously in a fast-paced environment
- Comfortable partnering across creative, experience, and operational teams to drive delivery
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Original Posting:
January 23, 2026
For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.
Pay Range:
Pay Range $92,300.00 - $166,850.00
The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.