Project Manager, Program ​/ Project Manager

Dermalogica is the leader of the professional skincare industry and the number one choice of professional skin therapists around the globe. Our focus is to continue to drive and support the professional skin therapist and our global accounts with exciting programs that foster their growth and success with Dermalogica, while at the same time, continuing to further our engagement with the consumer and enhancing their experience with the brand from all aspects.

Our Global Marketing team has an opening for a talented Project Manager to support global initiatives. This position is responsible for driving the ongoing strategy, quality, and lifecycle of Dermalogica’s core product portfolio. This role focuses on reformulations, SKU management, artwork updates, and cross functional alignment to ensure our hero products remain competitive, compliant, and consistent across global markets. The position reports to the Associate Director of Global Core Innovation and works closely with R&D, Regulatory, Operations, Creative, Education and International Market teams.

• Lead the development and execution of reformulations, compliance driven updates, pack changes, and other lifecycle initiatives across the core product portfolio.
• Manage SKU stewardship including artwork updates, claims revisions, component changes, discontinuations, and version control.
• Initiate project workflows by issuing required documentation and ensuring clear objectives, timelines, and expectations across cross functional teams.
• Partner with R and D, Operations, Creative, Education, Sales, Regulatory, and Regional Marketing to bring updates to market smoothly and on schedule.
• Serve as primary point of contact for anticipating, tracking, and resolving developmental, operational, and regulatory challenges.
• Ensure programs meet strategic, financial, and compliance requirements and maintain alignment with global brand standards.
• Use product, regulatory, and performance insights to inform lifecycle recommendations and category improvements.

• Lead product registration initiatives for the China market by defining scope, deliverables, timelines, and expectations across US and China teams and external partners.
• Act as a liaison between US cross-functional team (R&D, Supply Chain, Regulatory, Creative, Quality Control, top management) and external partners, removing work silos and ensuring risks and knowledge gaps are addressed timely.
• Build relationships with key stakeholders and project resources to drive key decisions and identified and mitigated risks with action plans, ensuring smooth and timely delivery of projects.
• Update Global leadership regularly on the state of the China business – with a focus on product registration, product portfolio performance, and forecasting.
• Serve as the main point of contact for colleagues based in China, ensuring their needs are addressed by global teams – not limited to product registration but also marketing-related tasks.
• Guide and help China local team to make informed assortment selection in the commercial context with the knowledge of the global team to optimize product structure.

• 3-5 year’s experience in beauty, working on new product launches and/or promotional programs that have been executed at a global level
• Exceptional communication skills are a must, as is the ability to build and develop internal and external relationships
• Proficiency in Mandarin, both spoken and written, is preferred.
• Strong analytical, leadership, conceptual, and project management skills required
• Excellent written and oral communication, excellent presentation skills, ability to personally organize and set priorities, and to drive other people
• Knowledge of the functions of product development, packaging design, advertising, and sales and their effect on product marketability
• Computer literacy in PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Outlook, and the Internet

• To find success within this role, the candidate must demonstrate the ability to see the “big picture” and work at a strategic level, thinking…