Temporary Project Manager – Beauty, Marketing & Creative Operations
Industrial Color
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: El Segundo • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $100,000 - $120,000 per year
About the role
- Act as the day-to-day operational liaison between Marketing, Creative, Digital, Social, Legal, and external partners
- Translate marketing inputs into clear, actionable creative briefs
- Ensure all teams are aligned on scope, timelines, deliverables, and approval paths
- Drive projects forward by proactively identifying gaps, risks, and dependencies
- Maintain momentum across multiple workstreams without sacrificing accuracy or quality
- Own project planning from brief approval through final asset delivery
- Develop and maintain detailed project plans including timelines, milestones, dependencies, and resourcing
- Track all projects in a centralized, transparent system visible to all stakeholders
- Ensure deadlines are met and escalation happens early when risks arise
- Establish clear communication structures (status updates, meetings, documentation)
- Set expectations and hold teams accountable to timelines and agreed workflows
- Ensure feedback is gathered, consolidated, and delivered clearly, consistently, and on time
- Keep leadership informed of progress, risks, and decision points
- Oversee asset organization, file naming, tagging, and delivery across campaign types (launch books, institutional, digital, social, and medical assets)
- Perform quality control to ensure assets meet technical specifications, naming conventions, and rights requirements
- Partner with external vendors and agencies to ensure compliance with established systems and standards
- Monitor ongoing operational performance and project health
- Identify inefficiencies and recommend workflow or process improvements
- Support consistent adoption of systems and best practices across teams
- Facilitate creative reviews and feedback sessions
- Ensure feedback is specific, actionable, aligned, and documented
- Manage approvals across marketing leadership, legal, and brand teams
- Confirm final assets are approved, properly organized, and delivered to the correct platforms or teams
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in project management, creative operations, or production management
- Direct experience within cosmetics, beauty, or luxury beauty brands
- Deep understanding of marketing-to-creative workflows, approvals, and timelines
- Proven ability to manage complex, cross-functional projects with multiple stakeholders
- Exceptional communication skills with a strong ability to give clear direction and timely feedback
- Highly organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable operating at speed
- Experience working with agencies, creative teams, legal partners, and external vendors
- Experience within a large, global beauty organization (Nice to Have)
- Familiarity with matrixed teams, layered approvals, and regional workflows (Nice to Have)
- Experience working with DAM platforms and rights management tools (Nice to Have)
Benefits
- Major medical, dental and vision insurance
- FSA
- HSA
- Employee discounts
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
project managementcreative operationsproduction managementmarketing-to-creative workflowscross-functional project managementquality controlworkflow improvementsrights management
Soft Skills
communication skillsorganizational skillsdetail-orientedability to give directiontimely feedbackproactive problem-solvingaccountabilitycollaboration