MARKETING PROJECT MANAGER

Yokogawa • Houston, TX

21h

About The Position

Yokogawa, an award-winning company in asset monitoring and digital twin technology, is a leading provider of industrial automation, test and measurement, information systems, and industrial services across various industries. The company aims to shape a better future by supporting the energy transition, biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and industrial cybersecurity, aligning with the United Nations sustainable development goals. With 18,000 employees in over 60 countries, Yokogawa's mission is to "co-innovate tomorrow." They seek dynamic colleagues passionate about technology and the planet, offering career growth in a global culture valuing respect, value creation, collaboration, integrity, and gratitude. The role of Marketing Project Manager involves coordinating campaigns and projects within the Marketing Services team, translating campaign briefs from Industry and Product Marketing Managers into clear plans, managing timelines and dependencies, and ensuring high-quality delivery of marketing assets and activities across multiple channels.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, business, project management, or a related field.
• 3–5 years’ experience in project management, marketing coordination, or a similar role within a marketing or agency environment.
• Demonstrated experience managing multiple concurrent projects with cross-functional stakeholders and tight deadlines.
• Proven organizational and time-management skills, with a track record of on-time delivery.
• Ability to translate high-level campaign briefs into structured project plans with clear milestones, responsibilities, and dependencies.
• Strong capacity planning and workload management across multiple specialists and campaigns.
• Competence in risk identification, mitigation planning, and proactive escalation.
• Comfort using project management methodologies (e.g. agile/kanban, basic waterfall) and adapting them pragmatically.
• Excellent facilitation skills for kick-offs, status meetings, and retrospectives.
• Ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders at different levels (e.g. Marketing Director, PMKs, Digital, specialists, and occasionally Sales or Product Management).
• Skilled at translating subjective feedback (e.g. creative notes) into clear, actionable tasks and next steps.
• Strong relationship-building skills; able to influence without direct authority and navigate competing priorities.
• Comfort with basic data and metrics to track project performance (e.g. on-time delivery, throughput, cycle times, rework rates).
• Ability to interpret core marketing metrics (e.g. event registrations, webinar attendance, campaign timelines vs. impact) to inform planning.
• Proficiency in project management and collaboration tools, including setting up dashboards, boards, and reporting views.
• Understanding of the typical lifecycle of marketing campaigns (briefing, creative development, approvals, production, launch, reporting).
• Awareness of key marketing channels (events, social, PR, advertising, internal comms, digital) and their typical lead times.
• Ability to spot cross-channel dependencies, such as when event timelines affect PR, social, and email plans.
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and calm under pressure.
• Proactive, solution-oriented mindset; able to anticipate issues and propose options instead of just flagging problems.
• Flexible and comfortable with change; able to re-plan quickly when priorities shift.
• Strong sense of ownership and accountability for delivery, even without being the content “creator.”

Nice To Haves

• 5+ years’ experience as a marketing project manager, program manager, campaign manager, traffic manager, or similar role.
• Experience in B2B and/or technical or industrial sectors, working with complex product portfolios or multiple product lines.
• Background coordinating integrated campaigns across several channels (events, social, PR, brand/creative, digital).
• Experience working in a matrix organization with product marketing, central/shared services, and digital teams.
• Formal project management training or certification (e.g. PRINCE2, CAPM, PMP, ScrumMaster) is an advantage.
• Familiarity with marketing and collaboration tools (e.g. CRM/marketing automation, CMS, social schedulers, analytics dashboards, Teams/Slack).

Responsibilities

• Translate campaign briefs into structured project plans with clear milestones, owners, and deadlines.
• Coordinate work across social, creative, PR, internal communications, events, and digital stakeholders.
• Manage a centralized marketing calendar, ensuring visibility of key launches, events, and campaigns.
• Run regular status meetings, track progress, and proactively identify risks, dependencies, and bottlenecks.
• Balance capacity across specialists and recommend trade-offs or rescheduling when needed.
• Maintain accurate project documentation and keep project management tools up to date.
• Support post-campaign reviews with data and insights on timelines, process issues, and improvements.

Benefits

• Great career opportunities to grow yourself in a truly global culture where respect, value creation, collaboration, integrity, and gratitude are highly valued and exhibited in everything we do.
• Diverse, equitable and inclusive culture.
• Employee Referral process!

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees