Executive Director Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Exceptional business and analytical acumen, including the ability to synthesize large and complex datasets into clear insights, strategic implications, and actionable recommendations for senior leadership.
• Deep understanding of demand planning and forecasting principles, with the ability to connect demand forecasts to financial plans, innovation strategies, and business objectives.
• Proven ability to influence and align senior stakeholders across functions, Regions, and Markets.
• Strong executive communication and presentation skills, including the ability to simplify complex issues and communicate a clear point of view to senior leadership.
• Ability to anticipate business risks and opportunities, constructively challenge assumptions, and drive decisions and actions in ambiguous or rapidly changing environments.
• Systems-thinking mindset and strong understanding of interactions across a demand-driven supply chain and the broader end-to-end business planning ecosystem.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint.
• Experience with data visualization, analytics, and planning platforms such as Tableau, Alteryx, or comparable tools.

Nice To Haves

• Prestige beauty, luxury, consumer products, or other global consumer-facing industry experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Global Business Planning function and establish analytical frameworks, planning processes, and business insights that support global brand strategy and long-term growth.
• Identify and quantify business opportunities and risks across Regions, categories, franchises, channels, and products, and translate insights into action with cross-functional leaders.
• Develop executive-level analyses and scenario planning to support strategic decisions, business reviews, investment choices, and changing Brand priorities.
• Lead innovation forecasting strategy in partnership with Global Marketing, Product Development, Finance, BVC, and Regional teams throughout the Corporate Innovation Process.
• Establish and communicate global new-product forecasting principles and processes that reflect Brand strategy, historical performance, market dynamics, and launch objectives.
• Provide strategic leadership for new-product business cases, evaluating competitive benchmarks, forecast assumptions, cannibalization, net extra, and longer-term potential.
• Align Regional Brand and Demand Planning teams on new forecast and cannibalization assumptions, incorporating global launch strategies and relevant market dynamics.
• Oversee forecast evolution throughout project stages, identify material changes, challenge assumptions, and escalate risks and opportunities.
• Ensure lifecycle planning connects new-product launches with planned phase-outs of existing items and identifies implications for demand, inventory, and business performance.
• Lead the Brand’s Integrated Business Planning (IBP/MBR) process, connecting demand, financial, innovation, commercial, and supply plans.
• Review and reconcile the Demand Plan and Financial Estimate, identify material gaps and underlying drivers, and drive cross-functional alignment on actions and accountability across Regions and Markets.
• Develop a forward-looking view of Brand demand and business performance, elevating issues that require leadership attention and enabling earlier decision-making.
• Drive saleable and promotional demand sufficiency across Regions and Affiliates, identifying gaps and partnering with stakeholders on mitigation strategies.
• Lead development of refreshable long-range sales projections at SKU, subcategory, category, and franchise levels across saleable and promotional products.
• Develop scenario analyses to show leadership the potential impact of changes in innovation, market performance, demand assumptions, and strategic choices.
• Develop and implement processes, tools, and ways of working that strengthen planning discipline, cross-functional collaboration, and organizational effectiveness.
• Lead, coach, and develop the Global Business Planning team, building functional expertise, strategic thinking, analytical capabilities, and a strong talent pipeline.
• Advance the use of data, visualization, and analytical tools to improve the speed, accessibility, and effectiveness of business insights and decision support.

Benefits

• Health insurance coverage, including medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Wellness and family support programs.
• Life and disability insurance.
• Retirement savings plans.
• Education-related programs.
• Paid holidays and vacation time.
• Competitive incentive compensation programs, with eligibility varying by role and plan terms.
• Potential eligibility to participate in the applicable Commission/Bonus Plan.