About the position
Hourglass Cosmetics is a vegan and cruelty-free beauty brand, redefining luxury cosmetics with high-performance products, innovative formulas, and award-winning franchises. The Director, Marketing Operations project manages and supports the cross-functional teams to successfully lead go-to-market plans and drive strategic growth initiatives for the company. The right person for the role will have a proven track record of creating effective systems and project planning tools. They will have the ability to quickly identify risks, solve roadblocks, and concurrently drive multiple projects forward while coordinating teams. This role will be responsible for leading, managing, planning, and tracking strategic and tactical steps of a brand or product launch campaign through the marketing lifecycle, considering critical inputs from other business units. This role will focus on leading overall project plans, communication, risk analysis, and implementation of highly visible multi-faceted GTM campaigns.
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end and track project plans and timelines for annual brand and product launch campaigns
- Design the overall project plan, and the development of project timelines; from product sign-off to consumer live date with a focus on marketing activities and key milestones
- Manage and monitor the end-to-end project timelines for 3-4 yearly GTM initiatives, leading regular status meetings with key stakeholders to ensure all critical milestones are achieved in the plan
- Lead collaborative relationships with key stakeholders at all levels, ensuring they are kept appropriately informed of project activities and kept accountable for respective steps
- Deliver clear, concise, and effective executive level communication
- Identify, secure, and coordinate implementation of internal and external resources and expertise to achieve project objectives, ensuring the team is appropriately staffed for upcoming projects
- Ensure that projects are proceeding according to timelines, meeting milestones and budget
- Anticipating and planning for changes in project as necessary to achieve project success
- Provide status reporting regarding project milestones, deliverables, dependencies, risks and issues, communicating across leadership
- Effectively delegate tasks and responsibilities to appropriate team or outside partners
- Define success criteria and disseminate them to involved parties throughout project life cycle
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in marketing, advertising, communications or business. Agency experience preferred
- Minimum of 7 years of experience within project management
- Ability to effectively communicate with executive leadership and all levels of an organization
- Strong leader with the ability to clearly communicate and gain alignment with cross functional team members
- Entrepreneurial and ambitious, with the ability to spot opportunities and work independently with minimal supervision
- Works creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment demonstrating teamwork and innovation
- Listen intently to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking the right questions when appropriate, and allowing for professional courtesy in conversations
- Proven ability to work in an ambiguous environment and collaborate cross-functionally in order to reach common business objective
- Interpersonal skills to influence and spur change, facilitate, and enhance performance within a cross-functional environment
- Demonstrates decisiveness in resolving problems, making decisions, and identifying priorities
- Strong organization skills, detailed oriented with excellent follow through skills
- Focused and versatile team player that is comfortable under pressure
- Fast and responsible, deadline driven
- Must be able to work from Corporate Office at least 60% of the time
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Accident insurance
- Critical illness insurance
- Disability insurance
- Retirement savings plans and company match
- Paid family leave
- Education-related programs
- Paid holidays
- Discretionary vacation time
