Project Manager, Beauty Products

Welcome to IBG! IBG (Innovative Beauty Group) is a global one-stop beauty shop. By partnering with our clients as an extension of their teams, we bring beauty visions to life. IBG consists of more than 300 colleagues spread over 13 locations worldwide.

IBG North America specializes in turnkey solutions, private label and packaging in the beauty industry. Together, we are concept builders and boosters with global opportunities for well-known retailers and brands.

Our New York team is looking for a Project Manager who can take ownership of client projects from concept through to delivery. In this role, you will be responsible for managing new launches for full turnkey, stock packaging and fragrance projects and ensure on-time delivery, at a targeted margin, within respect of the customers quality & timing expectations.

This role is ideal for someone who has a strong project management background with hands-on product development experience. This is for an existing vacancy.

In this role, you will:

• Organize Kick off meeting with Sales, Quality & NPD management (once brief is assigned) & define best approach (approved vendors, risk assessments. etc)
• Source accessory, packaging and/or formula based on customer brief.
• Source and vet vendors compatible with project and regulatory requirements
• Negotiate with suppliers to get the right cost to meet IBG target margins & customer target price
• Prepare Costing sheets & monitor target margin.
• Request samples and compare for quality and performance before submitting to customer.
• Work with Quality/Regulatory team to ensure formula meets customer blacklist and is compliant with country of sell.
• Manage & lead new WON projects to meet expected target.
• Lead Communication between with Internal & External teams
• Create, monitor & communicate Timeline/Critical Path with Internal & External Teams