DECIEM | THE ABNORMAL BEAUTY COMPANY Looking for Manager, Online Projects – Global at Toronto, Ontario, Canada Full Time

Known as “The Abnormal Beauty Company”, DECIEM is the parent company of The Ordinary, NIOD, and other beauty brands & is an industry disruptor with a science-first approach to innovation. DECIEM was Co-Founded in 2013 by the late Brandon Truaxe, a visionary who set out to change the beauty industry through authenticity and transparency. He developed DECIEM to be a happy family (of people and beauty brands), rooted in kindness, creativity, diversity, and respect, alongside Co-Founder and CEO, Nicola Kilner.

We are growing rapidly and we’re looking for someone who shares this vision and wants to grow with us!

What We Are Looking For

We are seeking a Manager, Online Projects to join our e-commerce team. The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong organizational skills and tech savviness. You are a superior communicator who can rally cross-functional teams toward a common goal. You lead with positivity and confidence, and can guide a project through choppy waters. Your day-to-day will involve connecting with technical delivery teams, capturing status, unlocking challenges, scheduling meetings, and sharing updates. Your primary objective is to keep projects on time, on budget, and to communicate risk promptly.

This is a hybrid position, based out of our Toronto Head Office.

WHAT YOU’D BE DOING IN THIS ROLE

Project Management:

• Managing multiple projects concurrently
• Organizing people: creating timelines, defining milestones, hosting meetings, documenting progress, and communicating status.
• Maintaining an activity backlog and setting follow-up phases for continuous improvement.
• Assisting peers in unlocking challenges and seeking out SMEs who can help.
• Hosting retrospectives to share project highlights and lessons learned.
• This role requires a high level of communication with the objective of keeping all stakeholders informed of status and risk.

Project Approval and Documentation:

• Maintain a log of approved and unapproved projects.
• Assist the online tech director and product management in maintaining the delivery roadmap
• Govern the project approval cycle, ensuring all projects follow the agreed-upon steps before taking flight.
• Track project KPIs and share them with the group. (Ex. On-time %, Effort to budget)
• Use popular project management methodologies such as Waterfall and Kanban. Be flexible in your approach by prioritizing team action over adherence to methodology.
• Develop a common set of PM worksheets that can be reused across digital projects.

SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS NEEDED TO GET THE JOB DONE

• 3-5 years of project management experience, preferably in digital or IT.
• Excellent communicator. Comfortable leading large groups, capturing notes, and sharing readouts with senior leaders.
• High digital acumen with experience leading enterprise-wide projects for a large retailer.
• High proficiency in organization, documentation, and presentation.
• Can clearly articulate project status, and risks, and can translate technical complexities into plain English.
• Quick learner, strong collaborator, and operationally minded.

WHAT YOU’LL BE GAINING BY JOINING OUR TEAM

There’s a lot of good stuff that comes along with being a DECIEM team member. Here’s a few of our favourite perks and benefits, in no particular order…

• Generous Vacation & Personal Days, plus additional time off for volunteering in your community, voting, peaceful protesting, celebrating your birthday, and more.
• 6 months of paid time off for new parents (inclusive of all genders).
• Work from anywhere 4 weeks per year.
• A hybrid work model (for applicable roles).
• Summer Friday’s – get off at 1pm all summer long! (for applicable roles).
• Unlimited access to an Employee Assistance Program that includes mental health care, mindfulness programs, and more.
• Access to Development Grants & a LinkedIn Learning membership to help you keep growing and learning.
• A generous discount on DECIEM products for you, your family, and your friends.

BUILDING GROWTH TO POWER GOOD

We are a People first company that lives by our core values to…

• 😊 Do the right thing
• 💡 Create impact
• 🌱 Respect small things
• ❤️ Care too much
• 🚀 Be the future

These values continue to guide us in all that we do. Along the way, we’ve been honoured to win some pretty incredible awards, including a CEW Achiever Award, Best Skincare Brand at Sunday Times Style Beauty Awards, and Most Popular Sustainable Brand by The Cosmetify Index Global. We’re still blushing!

SUSTAINABILITY AND SOCIAL IMPACT

DECIEM’s objective is to build growth and do good things while prioritizing people, animals, and the Earth.

Our Sustainability strategy is focused on fighting climate change, improved waste management, responsible packaging, responsible sourcing and product lifecycle, and water conservation.

In 2020, DECIEM established the Good Fund to support both large and grassroots charities in response to global events.

CREATING A HUMAN WORLD OF BEAUTY

DECIEM is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) by creating meaningful, measurable change in the lives of our team members and in the communities where we operate. Achieving equality is critical to DECIEM and our future. You can learn more about our DEI commitment in our open letter, “

DECIEM is an equal opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination based on age, colour, disability, national origin, race, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, and any other legally protected class in accordance with applicable federal, provincial and local laws. We are also committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace. If you are contacted to be part of our recruitment process and require accommodation, please let us know.

WANT TO JOIN US?

Thank you for reading the whole thing! If you liked what you heard, kindly send us your resume. We really appreciate your effort in applying for this position. However, only those who have been shortlisted for interviews will be contacted.
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