Marketing Project Manager

Yokogawa • Sugar Land, TX

15h • Hybrid

About The Position

Yokogawa, an award-winning provider of industrial automation and other systems, is seeking a highly organized Marketing Project Manager to coordinate campaigns and projects across their Marketing Services team. The role involves translating campaign briefs into clear plans, managing timelines and dependencies, and ensuring high-quality delivery of assets and activities across multiple channels. The company is committed to shaping a better future and United Nations sustainable development goals, fostering a global culture of respect, value creation, collaboration, integrity, and gratitude.

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.

What This Job Offers

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