Revolution Beauty is looking for a Critical Path Manager to join our team. The Critical Path Manager will be responsible for overseeing the planning, coordination, communication and execution of the end-to-end product development of new product launches, ensuring they are delivered on time and within scope. This role will focus on managing and optimizing the critical path of project schedules to minimize risks, improve efficiency, and ensure seamless coordination across various departments and stakeholders. The ideal candidate will possess exceptional organizational skills, a keen eye for detail, and the ability to foresee and mitigate potential project delays.

What you’ll do:

• Identify, monitor, and manage the critical path of multiple projects to ensure timely completion. Regularly review and update project schedules.
• Ensure there is a clear and achievable critical path and activity workflow for new product development on the launch calendar of Revolution Beauty brands.
• Organise and facilitate cross functional meetings to ensure that required dates are met to deliver ‘fast beauty’ to our end customers - assessing impact on other functions and ensuring all required approvals are in place.
• Work with all relevant functions to ensure operational alignment including Product Development, Sales, Demand, Brand, Visual Merchandising and Operations to ensure a common understanding of priorities and milestones, that timelines are maintained and that each team is held accountable for delivery.
• Build a “centre of excellence” in relation to understanding NPD end-to-end processes and their inter-connectedness across Revolution Beauty, our supply chain and international customer base
• Monitor the flow and progress of projects via regular meetings, using appropriate and comprehensive escalation process and risk assessment reporting to ensure teams and senior management have full visibility of project status and risks and that they are actively engaged so that projects hit deadlines
• Monitor and report the progress and performance against the critical path, keeping key stakeholders informed at all times
• Manage, mitigate and communicate any potential risks that may occur and propose creative solutions to resolve any issues
• Proactively propose creative solutions in order to overcome obstacles that arise.
• To actively engage with all internal teams to ensure timings work across the breadth of our customer base.
• Support organisational needs from other functions where project management skills are required.
• Identify and facilitate process improvements as appropriate.
• To perform other related duties as assigned or requested.

What you’ll have:

• Detail-oriented and highly organized.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously.
• Strong interpersonal and team management skills.
• Proactive and self-motivated with a problem-solving mindset.
• Previous experience within beauty and personal care
• Strong ability to analyse project data, identify critical tasks, and predict potential delays.
• Demonstrated experience in managing complex projects and solving issues related to time management and resource allocation.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present information clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and manage competing priorities in a dynamic environment

Being part of Revolution

Our purpose is to create incredible quality, socially driven, cruelty-free and vegan AFFORDABLE BEAUTY that every person can enjoy. We feel exactly the same about working for us, there should be something for everyone and we want to create an environment that everyone enjoys and feels empowered it. Our roles offer a lot of autonomy and opportunity – to deliver, to grow and to collaborate. Inclusivity is at the heart of what we do, everyone has the chance to make a difference, and what we do, we do together.