Director Project Management

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.
• 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.

Primary Responsibilities

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 openness to innovation, including the application of AI and emerging technologies within creative workflows.
• Proficiency in Asana, Wrike, Microsoft programs, Sharepoint, Google Workspace.