Thought Leadership Portfolio Delivery Lead

Project Management Institute; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work options

Global network

Bonus opportunities

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Project Management Institute is seeking a senior professional to lead the Thought Leadership production process from initiation through publication across research, content, and engagement. You’ll stand up project documents, build schedules, run team meetings, and coordinate contributors to deliver on plan.

This hands-on role requires managing multiple initiatives, surfacing risks early, and maintaining a predictable portfolio rhythm while working across functions and ensuring high-quality

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, PM, communications or related field.
• 7+ years of project or program management experience.
• Demonstrated experience managing content, editorial, research, or campaign production from initiation through publication.
• Experience holding delivery accountability across contributors not directly managed.
• Experience developing project charters, schedules, and risk/issue logs.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Thought Leadership production process from initiation through publication across research, content, and engagement.
• Stand up project documents, build and maintain schedules, run project team meetings.
• Coordinate contributors and manage delivery to plan with early risk surfacing.
• Ensure the portfolio operates to a predictable rhythm and leadership has accurate status.

Skills

Project management

Content production

Stakeholder management

Scheduling and planning

Risk & issues

PM platforms

English fluency

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Monday.com

Asana

Smartsheet

Job description

Are you a dreamer, innovator, thinker and a do-er who believes in contributing to something that makes difference?

Pursue your passion. Join PMI.

How You’ll Make a Difference

You will run the Thought Leadership department’s production process from initiation through publication across research, content, and engagement — standing up project documents, building and maintaining schedules, running project team meetings, and holding the portfolio to its commitments.

This is a hands‑on delivery role, ensuring that the work lands on time and to standard so that leadership has an accurate view of where every initiative stands at any point. The role works across every function in Thought Leadership and coordinates contributors it does not manage. Success is measured by projects delivering to plan, by risks surfacing early enough to act on, and by the portfolio operating to a predictable rhythm.

What You’ll Bring to the Role

• Bachelor’s degree required (business, project management, communications, or related field).
• 7+ years of experience in project or program management, running multiple concurrent initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience managing content, editorial, research, or campaign production from initiation through publication.
• Demonstrated experience holding delivery accountability across contributors the role does not manage.
• Experience developing project charters, schedules, and risk and issue logs as standard practice.
• Hands‑on experience administering project management platforms (e.g. Monday.com, Asana, Smartsheet).
• PMP, PgMP, and/or PfMP certification preferred.
• Experience working in complex, matrixed, or global organizations.
• Familiarity with thought leadership, research, or content production environments strongly preferred.
• Strong project and program management discipline, applied consistently rather than selectively.
• Ability to build schedules from realistic effort assumptions and defend them under pressure.
• Ability to hold contributors to commitments without positional authority.
• Early escalation instinct — surfacing risk rather than absorbing it.
• Strong facilitation skills, including running working sessions to clear decisions and actions.
• Sound judgement on sequencing and trade-offs when initiatives compete for the same capacity.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder‑management skills.
• Highly organized and detail-oriented, with the discipline to keep records accurate over time.
• Comfort working at pace across many concurrent initiatives.
• Fluent in English (PMI’s business language).

What you can expect from us

We value and nurture an environment of inclusivity and diversity, and a culture of communication and collaboration. Your health, safety and well‑being come first, and we believe that you should have time for your work, but you should also have time for you.

Join Us And You’ll Get

• an excellent total package, with compensation and benefits based upon your geographic location.
• skill development opportunities, to help you grow now and into the future.
• access to a global network, to enrich your professional experience.
• flexible options to help balance work time and your time
• award and bonus opportunities.

The salary offer will be based on several factors, including the candidate’s demonstrated skills, qualifications and relevant experience.

Let’s help make the world work better for everyone.

Project Management Institute, Inc. is committed to providing equal employment opportunities without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.