Deal Based Marketing Manager

SAIC is seeking a Deal-Based Marketing Manager to drive high-priority government pursuit marketing initiatives and keep complex opportunities moving across deal teams, agency partners, and internal stakeholders. Based in Reston, Virginia, with remote work options, this role blends strategic messaging with hands-on program leadership, requiring strong ownership and cross-functional coordination. For the right candidate, the position can be fully remote.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the Senior Manager and Director to implement strategic marketing programs that support high-priority government pursuits across SAIC.
• Serve as the day-to-day marketing liaison for deal teams and senior internal stakeholders, establishing trust through proactive communication, responsiveness, and reliable follow-through.
• Direct work with agency partners by clarifying objectives, ownership, inputs, deadlines, review steps, and next actions.
• Identify risks, blockers, delays, scope changes, budget implications, and decision needs early, proposing recommended next steps for resolution.
• Oversee timelines, deliverables, reviews, communications, follow-ups, and project documentation to keep active pursuits moving and visible.
• Coordinate creative development for presentations, videos, digital assets, workshops, and customer-facing deliverables with agency and internal teams.
• Ensure all deliverables meet quality, brand, compliance, and stakeholder expectations before advancement.
• Contribute to messaging and content strategies, shaping how customer insights and solution differentiators are expressed across marketing assets.
• Utilize approved AI, automation, and collaboration tools where they enhance execution speed, quality, or team productivity.
• Monitor marketing trends, government procurement cycles, and competitor positioning, and regularly share insights to inform execution and strategic decisions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications, business, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in marketing, communications, campaign execution, project management, stakeholder engagement, or creative production.
• Experience supporting government, federal, defense, technology, or complex B2B pursuits is preferred but not required.
• Proven ability to manage multiple complex projects simultaneously in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
• Strong project management instincts, including owning timelines, risk tracking, follow-through, meeting preparation, and status reporting.
• Experience serving as a trusted point of contact for senior stakeholders, with the ability to communicate clearly, manage expectations, and build relationships.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience contributing to messaging, storytelling, and content strategies.
• Comfort presenting updates, recommendations, risks, and decisions to cross-functional teams and leadership.
• Experience leading work through creative agencies, production partners, internal creative teams, or cross-functional marketing teams.
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to maintain accurate project plans, trackers, source-of-truth documents, and stakeholder communications.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office and work management tools, including PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Smartsheet, Teams, SharePoint, and related platforms.
• Ability to operate in ambiguity, manage competing priorities, and make practical tradeoffs without losing control of the work.
• Proactive, organized, adaptable, and comfortable balancing strategic conversations with execution-heavy responsibilities.
• U.S. citizenship required.

Technologies

• PowerPoint
• Excel
• Word
• Smartsheet
• Teams
• SharePoint