Director

 

Description:

BROADER RESPONSIBILITIES & SKILLS:

  • Support product innovation and execution across treatment and color categories in alignment with brand strategy objectives
  • Drive development in partnership with program leads, adhering to established timelines while ensuring optimal quality
  • Evaluate and provide recommended technical direction across product forms and categories
  • Oversee communication to R&D teams across disciplines (formulation, fragrance, testing, etc.) to move innovation forward with precision and agility
  • Conduct on-site development work at laboratory level, leveraging strong skillset with base and active compositional elements – translating to pilot and production levels with on-site travel to global in-house and partner facilities for approvals as needed
  • Inspire new ideation and drive creativity, providing new product conceptualization in assigned categories to ignite growth
  • Translate consumer, competitive and industry trends, applying knowledge to fuel new and unique La Mer innovation - reporting with presentation of recommended potential actions for La Mer
  • Leverage strong understanding of luxury market to build unique, multi-faceted experiences and reasons to believe
  • Attend beauty and cross-industry events, including trend/trade shows and key conferences
  • Apply expert formula knowledge to build distinct, high-performance luxury textures that deliver high performance benefits
  • Recommend new ingredient, testing, claims and storytelling opportunities, executing with internal and external partners across regions, with superior relevancy
  • Ensure superior formula quality, setting and maintaining standards for new developments and reformulations

Key Skills:

  • Strong organization skills required with self-motivated attitude required; action- and results-oriented with demonstrated ability to work both independently and in collaboration with cross-functional teams
  • Conceptual thinker, able to translate diverse technical and trend inspiration into consumer-relevant storytelling and claims
  • Ability to embrace change and demonstrate agility to meet evolving demands of fast-paced market and consumer shifts
  • Passion and energy for new challenges, with strong demonstrated ability to meet deadlines and drive resolution of questions, concerns, and issues
  • Highly flexible and responsive, with ability to effectively manage multiple, changing priorities
  • Excellent collaboration and communication skills, ability to communicate clearly both verbally and in writing with diverse audiences (R&D, Marketing, Creative, Education)
  • Strong applied creative, business and strategic thinking skills
  • Outstanding organization, follow-through, and attention to detail
  • Knowledge across diverse categories – Role encompasses projects in Skincare, Makeup and specialized categories

Organization The Estée Lauder Companies
Industry Management Jobs
Occupational Category Director
Job Location New York,USA
Shift Type Morning
Job Type Full Time
Gender No Preference
Career Level Intermediate
Experience 2 Years
Posted at 2023-11-04 3:18 pm
Expires on 2024-12-02