Thought Leadership Portfolio Delivery Lead

Project Management Institute, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 95,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

Project Management Institute, Inc. is seeking a hands-on Thought Leadership Delivery Lead to run the department's production process from initiation to publication across research, content, and engagement.

You will stand up project documents, build schedules, run meetings, and ensure the portfolio remains on track so leadership has a clear view of progress. The role emphasizes coordination with multiple functions, delivering initiatives on time, and surfacing risks early to act.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in 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.
• 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).

Responsibilities

• Run the Thought Leadership department's production process from initiation through publication across research, content, and engagement.
• Stand up project documents, build and maintain schedules, run project team meetings, and hold the portfolio to its commitments.
• Ensure that the work lands on time and to standard so leadership has an accurate view of where every initiative stands.
• Coordinate with contributors across functions; the role does not manage them.

Skills

Excellent communication

Stakeholder management

Ability to work under pressure

Education

Bachelor's degree in business, project management, communications, or related field

Tools

Monday.com

Asana

Smartsheet

Job description

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).

Originally posted on Himalayas