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**The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.** is one of the world’s leading manufacturers, marketers, and sellers of quality skin care, makeup, fragrance, and hair care products, and is a steward of luxury and prestige brands globally. The company’s products are sold in approximately 150 countries and territories under brand names including: Estée Lauder, Aramis, Clinique, Lab Series, Origins, M·A·C, La Mer, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, Aveda, Jo Malone London, Bumble and bumble, Darphin Paris, TOM FORD, Smashbox, AERIN Beauty, Le Labo, Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle, GLAMGLOW, KILIAN PARIS, Too Faced, Dr.Jart+, the DECIEM family of brands, including The Ordinary and NIOD, and BALMAIN Beauty.

Description

**PRINCIPLE OBJECTIVE:** The Global Brand NPL (New Product Launch) Finance Team drives financial rigor and governance across New Product lifecycle to maximize accretive profitable innovations. The Global Brand NPL Finance Director facilitates standardization of NPL financial planning and analysis across the Global Brands, identifies and shares best practices, drives continued process improvements, and monitors tracking and governance. The Director reports to the SVP Finance & Strategy, Global Brand Cluster, and partners closely with Brand Finance, Marketing, Business Planning and Value Chain teams.

ACCOUNTABILITIES:

+ Enterprise/Cluster-level NPL Standardization, Escalation and Governance

+ Deploy and monitor standard NPL financial planning process, definitions, and requirements across all Global Brands

+ Manage and serve as single source of NPL financial data for other ELC planning workstreams (e.g., management reporting, IBP, MPR) across the organization

+ Coordinate and run quarterly NPL escalation reviews with Executive Group Presidents to monitor program status, accretion/dilution, ROI, and drive cure or cancel decisions

+ Facilitate communications across ELC to ensure transparency of NPL progress, risks, post-launch performance, and maintain timely updates to ELC Leadership

+ Drive continued NPL financial process improvements, leveraging OneSource and automation and sharing best practices across brands

+ Serve as NPL Finance SME and responsible for training new Global Brand Finance team members

_Support Brand-level NPL Financial Planning and Analyses at Small Brands_

+ Work with Brand Finance VPs to set NPL guardrails and deliver program ROI analyses

+ Partners with Brand Finance, Marketing, Business Planning and Value Chain teams to develop NPL program financial analyses (with vetted assumptions on volume, net extra, COGS) to support go/no-go decisions throughout NPL stage gates

+ Liaise with Regional partners to collect financial, consumer, retail, and inventory for post-launch program tracking

_Leverage Technology and Systems to Deliver Long Term Automated Solution_

+ Develop expertise in our platforms to facilitate NPL planning efficiency and reporting

+ Design and update existing enabling platforms for workflow and reporting

+ Leverage analytic tools, services, and resources to lead and train brand colleagues and functional partners

+ Manage and provide on-going process and tool enablement training to Global Brands, Regions and Functions

Qualifications

+ BA/BS in finance or related field and minimum of 8 years work experience

+ Excellent oral and written communication skills, including the ability to organize, synthesize complex data and effectively communicate recommendations to stakeholders

+ Exceptional analytical, quantitative and problem-solving skills with experience in influencing business leaders with well thought out and data-driven recommendations

+ Ability to manage multiple tasks, strong project management skills, and partner with cross functional teams to ensure adoption

+ Solution-oriented and ability to build, manage and collaborate with business partners across global, regions and functions

+ Experience with analyzing large amounts of data and proposing data-driven solutions that are actionable and measurable

+ Proficient in Excel and PowerPoint; Experience with PowerBI and Tableau preferred but not necessary

+ Familiarity with Finance, Marketing, Business Planning and Supply Chain is preferred

Pay Range:

The anticipated base salary range for this position is **$120,550.00** to **$208,200.00** . Exact salary depends on several factors such as experience, skills, education, and budget. Salary range may vary based on geographic location. In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for participation in a highly competitive bonus program as well as participation in the share incentive plan. In addition,

The Estée Lauder Companies offers a variety of benefits to eligible employees, including health insurance coverage, wellness and family support programs, life and disability insurance, retirement savings plans, paid leave programs, education-related programs, paid holidays and vacation time, and many others. Many of these benefits are subsidized or fully paid for by the company.

Equal Opportunity Employer

It is Company's policy not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), gender identity or gender expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, protected medical condition as defined by applicable state or local law, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws and ordinances. The Company will endeavor to provide a reasonable accommodation consistent with the law to otherwise qualified employees and prospective employees with a disability and to employees and prospective employees with needs related to their religious observance or practices. Should you wish to apply for this position or any other position with the Company and you believe you require assistance to complete an application or participate in an interview, please contact [email protected].

**Michigan Applicants:** Persons with disabilities needing accommodations for employment must notify the company in writing of the need for an accommodation within 182 days after the date the person with a disability knew or reasonably should have known that an accommodation was needed.

**Philadelphia Applicants:** Philadelphia's Fair Chance Hiring Law (https://www.phila.gov/media/20240326142036/V6-Fireball-Handout-fairchance-E-S.pdf)

**Rhode Island Applicants:** The company is subject to chapters 29-38 of title 28 of the general laws of Rhode Island and is therefore covered by the state's workers' compensation law.

Equal Opportunity Employer

It is Company's policy not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), gender identity or gender expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, protected medical condition as defined by applicable state or local law, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws and ordinances. The Company will endeavor to provide a reasonable accommodation consistent with the law to otherwise qualified employees and prospective employees with a disability and to employees and prospective employees with needs related to their religious observance or practices. Should you wish to apply for this position or any other position with the Company and you believe you require assistance to complete an application or participate in an interview, please contact [email protected].