Sr. Manager, New Brand Empowerment

Estée Lauder Companies•New York, NY

38d•$102,400 - $168,750

About The Position

The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. is a global leader in beauty products, seeking a Sr. Manager, New Brand Empowerment to lead the execution of the E2E Brand Pillar for newly integrated and emerging brands. This role serves as the primary liaison between Brand stakeholders and cross-functional E2E Core Teams, focusing on innovation capabilities, processes, and tools within the ELC framework. The position involves managing innovation strategy, New Product Launch (NPL) processes, pricing, and commercialization frameworks to ensure alignment with organizational objectives and drive successful go-live execution. The Senior Manager will oversee project execution, milestone tracking, risk mitigation, and executive reporting to support operational readiness, speed-to-market, and long-term business growth.

Requirements

Reports to the Senior Vice President.
Leads the execution of the E2E Brand Pillar including empowerment roadmap, governance, and timeline for newly integrated and emerging brands.
Serves as the primary liaison between Brand stakeholders and the cross-functional E2E Core Teams across R&D, and Regulatory.
Responsible for enabling new brand’s journey of their innovation capabilities, processes, and tools leveraging ELC framework.
Works with brands on innovation strategy, NPL process, pricing, and commercialization frameworks.
Ensures alignment to organizational objectives to drive successful execution through full go-live.
Oversees project execution, milestone tracking, risk mitigation, and executive reporting.
Supports operational readiness, speed-to-market, and long-term business growth.

Responsibilities

Manage the end-to-end (E2E) empowerment journey for assigned brands from onboarding through full enablement.
Analyze and develop E2E R&D workstreams, including 100-day plan implementation and initial onboarding phases.
Lead E2E R&D & Regulatory Brand workstreams in collaboration with Brand, NBE, Region, and Functional R&D Leads.
Manage ELC R&D tools and systems workshops to align on a joint approach across people, process, and technology.
Support new market expansion (commercial acceleration) workstreams by ensuring product lineup regulatory readiness.
Lead the New Product Launch (NPL) workstream, managing its evolution and enhancement (Hybrid NPL, tools, roles, and responsibilities).
Work strategically with new brands on their 2 & 3-year Innovation, assortment, and pricing strategy.
Lead the Artwork workstream (process evolution, tools, roles, and responsibility mapping) with Brand and NBE Artwork partners.
Lead Claims and Legal Marketing review of brand lineup across packaging and website with ELC Legal Marketing/Regulatory.
Lead Packaging workstreams with Brand and NBE Packaging Lead.
Manage Brand sustainability and R&D requirements to align with ELC roadmap.
Partner with E2E Core Team and Brand stakeholders to organize and prepare materials for empowerment workshops.
Present empowerment workshop materials to senior staff members.
Support Change Management for Brand and R&D workstreams.
Lead the relationship with the E2E Core Team and Brand stakeholders to consolidate and refine information for governance meetings.
Document and issue timely recaps of open issues, next steps, and owners resulting from E2E Core Team meetings and workshops, ensuring prompt issue resolution.
Lead the preparation and presentation of annual strategic NBE Group planning processes.
Lead the preparation and presentation of special project assignments.
Proactively anticipate the SVP’s needs with information gathering, data analytics, documentation, and communications to drive empowerment strategy.
Document continuous improvement to maintain NBE Group Playbook evolution.
Support SVP on strategic executive level presentations as needed (BDC, IDC, Strategy decks).