Assistant Project Manager Fragrance

<p><strong>Company Description</strong> Slate Brands is a modern beauty brand incubator and accelerator focused on redefining how beauty brands are built. The company identifies white space in high-growth categories and leverages strategic partnerships to create distinctive, scalable brands. Using an omnichannel approach, Slate Brands drives cross-channel growth across digital, retail, and emerging platforms. Its portfolio includes talent-led, white-label, and in-house brands, offering team members exposure to diverse concepts and business models. Team members join a nimble, collaborative environment focused on innovation and long-term brand-building.</p><p><strong>Role Description</strong> This is a full-time, remote role for an Assistant Project Manager - Fragrance. The person in this role supports end-to-end project coordination for fragrance launches and ongoing product lines, ensuring timelines, budgets, and quality standards are met. Day-to-day responsibilities include tracking project milestones, preparing and updating project calendars, and coordinating with internal teams such as product development, marketing, operations, and finance. The role involves working with vendors and external partners to manage samples, component deliveries, and approvals, as well as supporting inspection activities and quality checks throughout the supply chain. The Assistant Project Manager will help monitor logistics and expediting needs, maintain accurate project documentation, and proactively identify and communicate risks, delays, or resource constraints to stakeholders. The role also supports cross-functional meetings, prepares status reports, and contributes to process improvements for fragrance project workflows.</p><p><strong>Qualifications</strong></p><p> </p><ul><li>Strong project coordination and project management skills, including timeline tracking, stakeholder communication, and risk monitoring.</li><li>Experience or familiarity with expeditor and expediting responsibilities, such as following up on orders, tracking deliveries, and resolving delays.</li><li>Knowledge of inspection and quality control practices, with attention to detail when reviewing samples, components, and finished goods.</li><li>Understanding of logistics management, including shipment planning, documentation, and coordination with suppliers and freight partners.</li><li>Ability to work effectively in a remote environment, managing priorities across multiple projects and deadlines.</li><li>Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across cross-functional teams and external partners.</li><li>Proficiency with project management and collaboration tools (e.g., Excel/Sheets, project tracking software, shared workspaces).</li><li>Prior experience in beauty, fragrance, consumer packaged goods, or a related industry is preferred but not required.</li><li>Bachelor’s degree in business, supply chain, project management, or a related field, or