L’Oreal Looking for Dir, Creative Operations – It Cosmetics at Jersey City, NJ

General Information

Job Title: Director, Creative Operations

Division: L’OREAL Luxe

Supervisor Title: VP, Creative Operations

Location: Jersey City, NJ

Job Summary:

The Director, Creative Operations – Product Launch Project Manager, will manage the day-to-day project management of all new launch campaign/reanimation materials being created and distributed across domestic and global regions/channels. They will drive the progress of assets from intake to release, providing end-to-end project management across 360 deliverable and Creative functions. The ideal candidate will establish and enforce process, ensure best practices are followed and project deliverables are on time/within scope. This person will promote the continuous improvement of Creative process and cross-departmental partnership.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage intake of project requests, identify resources needed, and create action plan with timeline.
• Monitor timelines to ensure efficient, on-time delivery of work while being able to problem solve and triage issues or concerns as they arise that may delay the project.
• Act as department and brand gatekeeper to make sure project requests are cohesive, actionable and within brand standards.
• Partner with VP, Creative Operations to drive continuous process efficiency.
• Manage and maintain branding and digital projects from concept through delivery.
• Provide continuous feedback within Creative team and with cross functional partners in order to improve our process by identifying workflows that can be optimized.
• Proactively developing solutions by creating tools for project requesters to help teach and streamline request content.
• Collaborate with art directors & retouching team to ensure project expectations are met and drive on time delivery.
• Own agenda for all project meeting as well as Global Creative Review meetings, takes official notes in the meetings and distributes pre and post documents.
• Own internal Branding/Social team meetings to ensure team members are aligned and equipped with most up to date information.
• Provide support for other disciplines when necessary.
• Foster positive and effective collaboration between cross-functional teams.
• Implement 360 mindset and ways of working.
• Streamline communication to ensure consistency across all departments.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree
• 8-10 years of project management or related experience
• Agency experience preferred
• Beauty experience a plus
• Tactical, organized, flexible and positive team player who can work independently and cooperatively in a diverse, perpetually changing environment
• Demonstrated organized self-starter who is able to manage multiple tasks deftly and see the big picture
• Excellent written and oral communication skills and successful at diplomacy
• Ability to assess and offer solutions to improve processes and workflows
• Superior problem solving and anticipation skills
• Ability to interpret and deliver against brand standards
• Ability to operate quickly and calmly within a high-pressure, dynamic environment, while setting and maintaining key priorities
• Microsoft Office skills (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) required
• Familiarity with Adobe (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and take pride in a diverse environment. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, marital or veteran status, medical condition or disability, or any other legally protected status.

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