Director Project Management

About Us

Orveon is a new kind of beauty company launched in December 2021 when we acquired our three iconic brands - bare Minerals, BUXOM, and Laura Mercier. Operating in 40+ countries, we're a truly global business. Our headquarters are in New York, with additional locations in major cities worldwide.

We love our brands and are embarking on a powerful shift:
To change how the world thinks about beauty. We are a collective of premium and prestige beauty brands committed to stark honesty, co-creation, and making a sustainable cultural impact.

People here are passionate, entrepreneurial and most of all, bold. This is an inspirational group of talented, silo-busting, confident and humble people, working together to build something better. We are looking for the best talent to join us on that journey. We believe we can accomplish more when we #Face Forward Together!

About

The Role

The Director, Project Management role plays a pivotal role within Creative, shaping how work moves from idea to execution across Orveon's brands and global markets.

This role leads a team of Creative Project Managers and oversees complex creative workflows defining a 360 social first, digital-led approach for global product launches, packaging artwork, and store design visual merchandising (SDVM). Working closely with brand leads, marketing, digital teams, and the Creative Studio, the Project Management Director brings clarity, momentum, and consistency.

With a strong balance of strategic thinking and hands-on execution, this role is ideal for someone who enjoys building structure, evolving processes, and enabling creative teams to do their best work-while continuously looking for smarter, more innovative ways to operate. Includes the thoughtful integration of AI and new technologies into creative planning and workflows. Reporting to the Executive Director, Creative Operations, this role is critical to fostering a collaborative and high-performing team in a fast paced environment.

Primary Responsibilities

Creative Project Management & Execution

* Lead the end-to-end project management of global creative initiatives, from intake and briefing through execution and final delivery, ensuring alignment on scope, timelines, and deliverables.

* Lead the comprehensive program management for campaign concepting, from initial ideation through to launch for both new and existing products.

* Drive process innovation and documentation, evolving our operational frameworks and deliverables across intl markets.

Cross-Functional & Creative Studio

* Fluency in project management tools Wrike and Asana with an ability to implement best practice.

* Work closely with brand leads and the Creative Studio to align priorities, plan work, and support high-quality creative output.

* Serve as a key connector between Creative, Brand Marketing, Digital, Global Visual Merchandising, PDP, and external partnership.

* Enable strong collaboration across teams by creating clarity around timelines, ownership, and decision-making.

* Provide clear visibility into project status, risks, and resourcing to senior leadership.

Process, Innovation & Continuous Improvement

* Own and evolve creative project management processes, tools, and ways of working to support scale, speed, and consistency.

* Identify opportunities to modernize workflows, including the thoughtful adoption of AI-enabled tools to support creative development, production planning, and operational efficiency.

* Proactively identify risks, resourcing constraints, and process gaps; recommend solutions and drive continuous improvement.

* Ensure new processes and tools are well planned, clearly documented, and consistently adopted across the team.

* Establish best practices for creative project management, ensuring consistency, accountability, and high performance across the team.

* Lead and actively participate in critical cross-functional meetings, including Creative Reviews, Marketing Reviews, Legal Reviews, and Resource Allocations, effectively presenting creative work, tracking status, and circulating notes.

Qualifications

* 8-10 years of experience in creative project management, creative operations, or account management.

* Ability to automate timelines (Excel formulas) and an expert understanding of beauty timelines and workflow is essential

* Meticulous attention to detail and a strong understanding of how to build a 360 approach to creative workflow

* In-house beauty brand expertise strongly preferred; agency experience is also a plus

* Strong organizational and communication skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.

* Self-starter with the ability to work independently and adapt quickly in a fast-changing environment

* Demonstrated experience managing creative workflows, timelines, and production deliverables.with a flexible and contingency based approach

* Comfort partnering cross-functionally and globally with brand, marketing, ecommerce, social, designers, and copywriters.

* Demonstrated curiosity and…