Basic Qualifications
To be effective, you will need to possess these basic qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited college in a related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education.
- 10+ years of professional experience in the brand communications and/or marketing field.
- Experience successfully managing extensive budgets.
- Previous formal leadership experience.
- Experience in aerospace and defense and/or high-tech industries.
- Ability to travel within the United States up to 20 percent of the time.
Job Description
The mission matters. So do the people behind it. With advancing defense technology at our core, what sets us apart is a culture of collaboration, purpose, and impact.
What is the mission?
Space is a critical domain, connecting our technologies, our security and our humanity. While others view space as a destination, we see it as a realm of possibilities, where we can do more— we can innovate, invest, inspire and integrate our capabilities to transform the future.
At Lockheed Martin Space, we aim to harness the full potential of space to cultivate innovation, reduce costs, and push the boundaries of what technology can achieve. We’re creating future-ready solutions, focusing on resiliency and urgency through our 21st Century Security® vision.
What does this role look like?
The Lockheed Martin Space Communications team is seeking a strategic, hands-on thought leader to oversee the Brand & Marketing Communications team.
The successful candidate should be an energetic, creative, and project-oriented marketer, who has demonstrated leadership experience with planning, shaping, and executing marketing, brand, social, digital and advertising strategies, including overseeing trade show events. This role is accountable for developing stories that support business priorities and advance initiatives through strategic and bold campaigns. Additionally, as a member of the Communications leadership team, the candidate must possess the ability to coach, mentor, and drive employee development.
In this role you will have the following daily key responsibilities:
- Manage and mentor a team of marketing and trade show event experts.
- Partner with Corporate Communications to define and uphold brand voice, guidelines and standards across all marketing assets and platforms.
- Advise senior leaders and executive leadership across the business on brand strategy and messaging.
- Partner with other disciplines within Communications and across the business (i.e., business development, government affairs, etc.) to drive larger enterprise-wide stories.
- Strengthen new business captures and keep sold programs through integrated campaigns aligned to business and communications priorities; possess strong ability to reach government and business audiences with customized targeted messages.
- Develop and oversee the digital and social media strategy for Lockheed Martin Space.
- Lead the development of standard processes and marketing metrics; apply data-driven guidelines to improve content readership and target audience reach.
- Ensure exhibit booth design and overall presence at trade shows and events position the company as the industry authority and creates a welcoming environment for customers and partners.
This position does not support teleworking; the preferred candidate will be located near our Lockheed Martin Space facility one of the Coolest places to work: Denver, Colorado , and be expected to work in the office.
Desired Skills
To be effective, ideally, you should also have:
- Masters degree in communication or marketing.
- Ability to deliver results, shape the future, build effective relationships, energize the team, and model personal excellence, integrity, and accountability.
- Proven exceptional and high quality strategic communication skills, including written, verbal, and presentation, to effectively communicate business cases to all levels including executive leadership.
- Experience as 'leader of leaders;' leading and developing other leaders.
- Proven success in leading teams and large-scale projects.
- Demonstrated experience producing effective marketing campaigns and a strategic mindset to connect multiple stories into a single narrative.
- Ability to use digital tools to ensure precision targeting of audiences and analyzes results to fine-tune campaign and achieve desired outcomes.
- Good judgment and discretion along with a professional demeanor and interpersonal style that elicits trust from leadership, staff, and partners.
- Comfortable interfacing with internal and external stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
- Strong sense of urgency and attention to detail.
- Self-starter with the ability to manage multiple tasks and projects at the same time, effectively managing a heavy workload independently and without close supervision.
PLEASE NOTE-Other Important Information
- By applying to this role, you are expressing interest in this position and could be considered for other career opportunities, within Lockheed Martin, where similar skills and requirements have been identified as a match.
- Should this match be identified you may be contacted for this and future openings.
- Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
Benefits Of Employment
Our employees play an active role in strengthening the quality of life where we live and work by volunteering more than 850,000 hours annually.
Learn more about Lockheed Martin’s competitive and comprehensive benefits package here.
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Other Important Information
By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in this position and could be considered for other career opportunities where similar skills and requirements have been identified as a match. Should this match be identified you may be contacted for this and future openings.
Ability to work remotely
Onsite Full-time: The work associated with this position will be performed onsite at a designated Lockheed Martin facility.
