SSG Marketing Launch Process & Project Manager
Marketing & Communications, Operations · Full-time
Bratislava, Slovakia · Bratislava Region, Slovakia
EUR 22,700-33,220 / year
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Description and Requirements
The WW SSG Marketing Launch Process & Project Manager is a key role within Lenovo’s Solutions and Services Group (SSG), responsible for driving the governance and execution of marketing launches for new offerings, portfolio enhancements, and strategic capabilities. Reporting to the Director, Product Marketing, you will manage launch roadmaps, milestone tracking, gate reviews, executive reporting, and cross-functional coordination to ensure successful, on-time launches.
Partnering closely with Product Marketing Managers, Offering Marketing Leaders, and Marketing Executives, you will bring visibility, accountability, and operational excellence to complex launch programs while proactively managing risks, dependencies, and critical business decisions.
- Own the day-to-day governance of the WW SSG Marketing Offering Launch process, ensuring launches progress through required stages, milestones, approvals, and gate reviews on time.
- Maintain and track the launch roadmap, dashboards, and status reports, providing visibility into timelines, deliverables, dependencies, risks, and critical actions across active launches.
- Coordinate launch governance activities, including Launch Cadence meetings, Gate Reviews, and stakeholder forums, managing agendas, documentation, follow-up actions, and decision tracking.
- Support the integration of SSG Marketing launches with Concord, monitoring required documentation, stage alignment, milestones, and handoffs while identifying and escalating gaps or inconsistencies.
- Apply and enforce launch-process standards, templates, checklists, and RACI frameworks, ensuring teams follow established processes and best practices throughout the launch lifecycle.
- Proactively identify, assess, and escalate launch risks, blockers, delays, and ownership issues, partnering with Product Marketing Leaders and Marketing Executives to drive resolution.
- Prepare concise, executive-ready updates on launch pipeline health, milestone progress, business risks, decisions required, and support needed to keep launches on track.
- Manage and continuously improve the Offering Marketing Launch SharePoint and knowledge repositories, maintaining current documentation, templates, dashboards, recordings, guidance materials, and onboarding support for new team members.
- 5+ years of experience in project management, program management, launch management, product marketing, or a similar cross-functional role within a fast-paced business environment.
- Proven ability to manage complex, multi-workstream initiatives involving multiple stakeholders, dependencies, competing priorities, and tight deadlines.
- Strong expertise in project planning, milestone management, status reporting, meeting governance, process documentation, and operational execution.
- Experience leveraging AI tools, automations, and AI-driven solutions to streamline workflows, improve reporting, simplify governance processes, and enhance program management efficiency.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex information into clear, concise, and executive-ready communications that support decision-making.
- Advanced presentation and storytelling skills, including the ability to create polished leadership materials that clearly communicate progress, risks, key decisions, and required actions.
- Demonstrated success working in a global, matrixed organization, effectively collaborating across distributed teams, functions, and geographical regions.
- High proficiency with Microsoft 365 collaboration tools, project-tracking platforms, dashboards, data analysis, and knowledge-management systems; experience in IT solutions and services marketing, product marketing, sales enablement, or launch-related activities is highly preferred. A Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, Communications, Project Management, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience) is advantageous, along with an interest in enterprise technology and its business impact.
- Opportunities for career development & growth
- Performance based rewards
- Hybrid working model (homeoffice/office)
- Up to 3 paid Personal Days annually
- Additional vacation days
- 100% sick leave compensation up to 2 months per year
- A broad selection of soft / hard skills trainings and individual mentoring
- Employer contribution to the Third Pillar Pension System
- Life & life events insurance, fully covered by company