Freelance Creative Project Manager, Beauty

tms unites technology, marketing, and sourcing to drive transformational change for the world’s leading brands. With more than 1,400 employees across 28 countries, we offer an impressive range of solutions – from inspiration and innovation to category management and delivery.

Operating as a creative agency, a strategic consultancy, a sourcing business, and a technology provider, we engage with over 110 million customers every single day for our clients, including McDonald’s, T-Mobile, O2, Starbucks, and adidas.

Most importantly, we’re a place where you can achieve great things, and be recognized as the best.

Breakthrough, business-driving ideas come from extraordinary people with the freedom to be their most authentic selves henticity and diversity are critical elements of our business. They can only be realized when we create access and equity for all. We foster a culture of inclusion and belonging and aspire to be ever-evolving.

tms is a place where brilliant people are better together. If you want your ideas to be heard and to contribute to a culture of inclusion and authenticity, bring us your voice!

As Creative Project Manager, Beauty, you’ll be the engine that keeps work moving—owning intake, timelines, resourcing coordination, and day‑to‑day delivery for the client's creative work. Reporting to the Director, Creative Project Management, you’ll partner with creatives, production, marketing, social, and e-commerce teams to ensure briefs are clear, schedules are realistic, and deliverables land on time and on brand. This role is perfect for someone who loves operational excellence, thrives in a fast‑paced, digital‑ and social‑first environment, and takes pride in making high‑volume work feel organized, calm, and predictable.

• Own creative intake for the client—gathering requirements, clarifying objectives, and ensuring briefs include channel, specs, and deliverable needs
• Partner with stakeholders to prioritize work against timelines and business goals; facilitate escalation conversations when demand exceeds capacity
• Translate requests into actionable project plans (scope, milestones, owners, dependencies), ensuring alignment before work begins
• Maintain visibility into the work funnel and proactively flag gaps (missing assets, unclear feedback paths, shifting priorities)

• Build and manage project timelines from kickoff through final delivery for social/digital, paid media, e-commerce/PDP, retail, and campaign toolkits
• Drive day‑to‑day execution: schedule meetings, run status updates, track action items, and ensure the right people are aligned at the right time
• Manage scope, feedback, and approvals; maintain version control and ensure notes are consolidated, clear, and actionable for creative teams
• Anticipate risks and dependencies (e.g., product readiness, photography, claims/legal review, retailer specs) and propose mitigation plans early

• Coordinate resourcing with the Creative Director and team leads—balancing workloads across designers, copy, art direction, production, and external partners as needed
• Own traffic management: assign work, track capacity, and adjust plans to hit deadlines for the client
• Coordinate with production and vendor partners (freelancers, studios, retouching, post, localization) on schedules, deliverables, and handoffs
• Ensure deliverables are packaged and delivered correctly (specs, naming, exports, final file locations), supporting a smooth handoff to marketing/e-commerce teams

• Establish and reinforce clear workflows for briefing, reviews, approvals, and delivery—making it easy for stakeholders to engage and for creatives to execute
• Maintain documentation and templates (briefs, timelines, status trackers, QA checklists) that reduce rework and increase consistency
• Support quality by ensuring the right reviews happen at the right time (brand, claims/legal when applicable, retailer/spec checks) before final release
• Track progress and share…