Project Manager

Project Manager

Our client, a cosmetics company, is seeking a Project Manager to join their team.

Role: Project Manager

Location: 501 West 30th Street, New York, NY 10001, United States (Hybrid - 3 days in office, 2 days WFH)

Duration: 8+ months (Potential to extend beyond EOY)

Key Job Responsibilities

• Actively manage the Zone transformation portfolio, overseeing the health, progress, and value realization of more than 50 projects across divisions, métiers, and functional domains.
• Conduct bi monthly portfolio reviews with project teams to track milestones, risks, dependencies, and resourcing needs, ensuring accuracy and continuity in updates.
• Evaluate emerging risks and trends across the portfolio, escalating patterns, structural blockers, and systemic issues to leadership with clear recommendations for action.
• Onboard new teams and initiatives into the portfolio, ensuring alignment to transformation governance, standards, and strategic priorities.
• Serve as the central steward of project health, maintaining the integrity of status, KPIs, timelines, and interdependencies to ensure enterprise wide visibility and decision readiness.
• Lead and develop the project manager community, fostering shared standards, peer learning, capability uplift, and cross project collaboration.
• Strategize and plan for future PM needs, including PM bench planning, talent forecasting, and organizational capability mapping.
• Serve as the Zone lead for the PM talent tool (Graphite), partnering with HR and functional leaders to support PM role clarity, talent visibility, and mobility pathways.
• Promote PM excellence through community cadences, forums, training sessions, and best practice dissemination.
• Act as a transformation catalyst by identifying opportunities to enhance operational efficiency and cross divisional collaboration.
• Partner on the design and evolution of transformation learning strategies, supporting the development of capability programs that elevate PM and transformation competencies.
• Manage core PM frameworks and methodologies, including ownership of PRIME (project lifecycle framework), ensuring consistent adoption and disciplined execution across teams.
• Serve as the Center of Excellence for project tools and standards, advising teams on tool usage, governance expectations, and best in class PM practices.
• Oversee all PM tool data within Wrike, ensuring accuracy, structure, and completeness across the Zone portfolio.
• Continuously optimize data hygiene, reporting, tagging, and hierarchy models, enabling reliable insights, dashboards, and leadership reporting.
• Lead tool enhancements and capability rollouts, partnering with IT, global transformation, and portfolio management teams to improve usability and project transparency.
• Collaborate closely with business, tech, finance, and global teams, ensuring seamless information flow, alignment on project implications, and visibility of risk.
• Support executive storytelling and strategy reviews through portfolio insights, synthesis, and narrative development.
• Enable operational continuity and readiness, ensuring teams understand, adopt, and embody transformation standards and expectations.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree
• 5-8+ years in transformation, PMO, operations, or project management leadership (cross functional or enterprise PMO experience preferred).
• Proven track record managing large, complex portfolios with multiple stakeholders and interdependencies.
• Strong command of project governance, data accuracy, risk management, and PM tooling.
• Skilled at building trusting cross functional relationships and engaging teams at all levels.
• Ability to anticipate issues, diagnose systemic trends, and drive clarity in complexity.
• Exceptional communication, synthesis, and facilitation skills.