Job ID: 704452BR Date posted: Sep. 09, 2025
Description:This fast-paced role serves as the strategic and operational lead for high-profile corporate events and engagements that include CEO, COO, and executive leadership team members. The Senior Manager, Executive Protocol & Events will set the vision, strategy, and flawless execution for marquee events, such as the NOVA Awards, Senior Leadership Meeting and customer visits. Partnering closely with senior executives, internal stakeholders, and external partners, this leader ensures every engagement reflects the company’s brand, advances strategic objectives, and adheres to the highest standards of protocol and compliance.

Key Responsibilities

· Define the vision and long-term strategy for executive events, ensuring alignment with business priorities and leadership objectives.

· Plan and deliver high-profile internal and external events, including executive offsites, customer engagements, and corporate ceremonies.

· Develop briefing materials, run-of-show documents, scripts, and messaging to prepare executives and ensure impactful experiences.

· Partner with CEO/COO offices, communications, business development, and other teams to align objectives and messaging.

· Manage and develop a high-performing team of two professionals, fostering operational excellence and professional growth.

· Maintain financial accountability for all executive events, ensuring efficiency and ROI.

· Coordinate with protocol and events teams across the enterprise to drive consistency and share best practices. Monitors event metrics, identifying and recommending methods for continuous improvement.
Basic Qualifications:
10+ years of experience in executive event management, communications, or corporate protocol, preferably within aerospace, defense, or a similarly complex industry.

· Proven success leading executive-level engagements with internal and external stakeholders.

· Deep expertise in event strategy, planning, and execution with strong knowledge of industry trends and best practices.

· Exceptional organizational and project management skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

· Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, including experience crafting executive communications and briefing materials.

· Demonstrated leadership experience, including managing teams and budgets.

· Strong relationship-building skills with executives, colleagues, and partners at all levels.

· Familiarity with compliance requirements and protocol standards for executive and customer-facing events.
Desired Skills:
• Ability to effectively analyze and present options and alternatives and solutions for future engagements to a senior-level audience to enable effective decision making.
• A self-starter that requires has experience delivering clear recommendations at a high level.
Demonstrated ability to use creative problem-solving skills to take corporate events from the every-day to the extraordinary both internationally and domestically.
• Prior exposure to military or diplomatic protocol.
• Experience managing and advising CEOS, other high-level executives and their staff, especially in relation to ceremonial or business engagements.
• Awareness of the hospitality industry and industry standards in catering and event planning.
Clearance Level: None
Other Important Information You Should Know
Expression of Interest: 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: Part-time Remote Telework: The employee selected for this position will work part of their work schedule remotely and part of their work schedule at a designated Lockheed Martin facility. The specific weekly schedule will be discussed during the hiring process.
Work Schedules: Lockheed Martin supports a variety of alternate work schedules that provide additional flexibility to our employees. Schedules range from standard 40 hours over a five day work week while others may be condensed. These condensed schedules provide employees with additional time away from the office and are in addition to our Paid Time off benefits.
Schedule for this Position: 4x10 hour day, 3 days off per week
Pay Rate: The annual base salary range for this position in California and New York (excluding most major metropolitan areas), Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, Vermont, Washington or Washington DC is $124,900 - $220,225. For states not referenced above, the salary range for this position will reflect the candidate’s final work location. Please note that the salary information is a general guideline only. Lockheed Martin considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/ training, key skills as well as market and business considerations when extending an offer. Benefits offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, EAP, Education Assistance, Parental Leave, Paid time off, and Holidays. (Washington state applicants only) Non-represented full-time employees: accrue at least 10 hours per month of Paid Time Off (PTO) to be used for incidental absences and other reasons; receive at least 90 hours for holidays. Represented full time employees accrue 6.67 hours of Vacation per month; accrue up to 52 hours of sick leave annually; receive at least 96 hours for holidays. PTO, Vacation, sick leave, and holiday hours are prorated based on start date during the calendar year. This position is incentive plan eligible.
Lockheed Martin is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified candidates will be considered without regard to legally protected characteristics.
The application window will close in 90 days; applicants are encouraged to apply within 5 - 30 days of the requisition posting date in order to receive optimal consideration.
Join us at Lockheed Martin, where your mission is ours. Our customers tackle the hardest missions. Those that demand extraordinary amounts of courage, resilience and precision. They’re dangerous. Critical. Sometimes they even provide an opportunity to change the world and save lives. Those are the missions we care about.

As a leading technology innovation company, Lockheed Martin’s vast team works with partners around the world to bring proven performance to our customers’ toughest challenges. Lockheed Martin has employees based in many states throughout the U.S., and Internationally, with business locations in many nations and territories.
Experience Level: Experienced Professional
Business Unit: CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS
Relocation Available: Possible
Career Area: Public Relations
Type: Full-Time
Shift: First