Freelance - Sr. Creative Project Manager

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end project management for assigned Creative initiatives, from intake and briefing through execution and final delivery.
• Manage complex Creative projects across multiple workstreams, with a primary focus on Packaging.
• Build and manage realistic timelines, milestones, dependencies, and critical delivery dates.
• Ensure briefs, inputs, and requirements are complete and actionable before work begins.
• Coordinate reviews, feedback, approvals, routing, and final handoffs across Creative and cross-functional partners.
• Manage multiple concurrent workstreams and proactively identify risks, delays, scope changes, or resource conflicts.
• Challenge unrealistic timelines and help drive clear decisions around priorities, ownership, sequencing, and deliverables.
• Serve as the primary operational project lead for Packaging, driving alignment on timelines, ownership, routing, and key decisions across cross-functional teams.
• Manage key Packaging inputs and dependencies including copy, translations, dielines, whites, mechanicals, proofs, and final production files.
• Partner closely with Creative, Product Development, Engineering, Procurement, Regulatory, Legal, Production, and Brand Marketing.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in creative project management, creative operations, packaging project management, or a related discipline.
• Strong experience managing Packaging projects from concept through artwork development, mechanical release, and production is required.
• Experience within beauty, skincare, cosmetics, fragrance, luxury, or consumer goods preferred.
• Proficiency in Wrike, with demonstrated experience building and optimizing workflows, templates, routing, approvals, timelines, and reporting.
• Exceptional organizational and communication skills, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously without losing the detail.
• A self-starter who can operate independently, adapt quickly, and bring others along with them.
• Strong cross-functional instincts — comfortable working across brand, marketing, e-commerce, design, and copy teams globally.