Estée Lauder Companies Director of Responsible Sourcing

About Estée Lauder Companies

The Estée Lauder Companies is a global leader in prestige beauty, founded in 1946 by Estée and Joseph Lauder and built on an enduring belief in creativity, high-touch service, and entrepreneurial spirit. As an employer, the Group offers talent the scale of an international house with the energy of distinctive brands across skincare, makeup, fragrance, and hair care. Its culture values innovation, inclusion, learning, and responsible growth, inviting professionals to shape consumer experiences from laboratory to counter, digital platform to boardroom. Employees join a purpose-led organization where heritage, artistry, and scientific excellence meet to define the future of luxury beauty.

Role & Responsibilities

• Lead the development, implementation, and execution of global sourcing strategies for assigned commodities, setting the vision and ensuring procurement strategies are implemented across brands and the supply chain.
• Support management of Joint Value Creation partners to foster mutual revenue growth, secure first access to innovation, and optimize margins; manage $150 million in packaging spend and one manager.
• Collaborate across the supply chain to improve cost, quality, and supply through supplier management, standardization, and negotiations for assigned commodities.
• Develop, advocate, and implement short- and long-term sourcing strategies for assigned commodities, working with internal departments including R&D, Packaging, and Marketing to ensure GSR commitments meet internal requirements.
• Support cross-functional management and enablement of Joint Value Creation relationships with key partners.
• Lead cross-brand supplier negotiations to secure the organization's best overall cost position for assigned commodities; negotiate, develop, and approve contracts, agreements, supplier direction, and business awards.
• Manage strategic supplier relationships to foster collaboration throughout the supply chain.
• Monitor industry best practices and technology trends, and educate team members and business partners as needed.
• Work with internal departments on strategies addressing changing global regulatory compliance requirements and environmental best practices.
• Develop and lead strategies to mitigate supplier and industry risks within assigned commodities.
• Use tools and processes to optimize sourcing, supplier activities, and efficiency; collaborate with team members to prioritize and drive implementation.
• Lead the budget process across brands for assigned commodities.
• Support sustainability efforts within assigned commodities.
• Work with innovation groups to evaluate supplier capabilities and establish sources for new technologies and markets in response to business requirements.
• For secondary and tertiary packaging, develop pricing methodologies with converters that provide transparency, competitiveness, stability, and ease of implementation.
• Partner with Material Management to balance order quantities and cost, and establish a regular review process for minimum order quantities against cost, inventory, and excess and obsolete stock.
• Focus on new printing technologies and supply processes that can shorten lead times, enable smaller runs, improve supply security, and support late-stage differentiation; develop solutions to accelerate time to market for new launches.
• Seek solutions for plastic sustainability, including post-consumer recycled and ocean plastics.
• Define a material strategy that ensures capacity, supply security, lead time, certification, and value for money; review packaging format harmonization and the plastic supply chain with converters.
• Recommend and execute network design that optimizes total cost, including inventory, excess and obsolete stock, and transport, as well as lead time; draft an updated sourcing strategy with an appropriate supply base based on technical capabilities, competitiveness, location, and turnkey options.

Qualifications

• Experience in a global packaging procurement category role covering primary rigid plastic packaging.
• Management experience preferred.
• Fact-based decision-making, pragmatism, resourcefulness, and proactivity.
• A can-do and will-do attitude toward achieving goals, meeting targets, and satisfying internal and external customers.
• Minimum 8 years of experience.

Skills

Experience

Minimum 8 years of experience.

Compensation

The base compensation for this position ranges from USD 124,200 to USD 214,450 per annum.

Benefits

Eligible employees may receive health insurance (medical, dental, and vision), wellness and family support programs, life and disability insurance, retirement savings plans, paid leave programs, education-related programs, paid holidays, and vacation time. The role is eligible for a competitive bonus program, including possible performance- and company-results-based overachievement, and participation in the share incentive plan.

Culture

The Estée Lauder Companies fosters a collaborative, inclusive workplace where creativity, entrepreneurial thinking, and a passion for prestige beauty are deeply valued. As a global house of distinctive brands, it offers employees an environment that encourages innovation, professional growth, and a shared commitment to excellence and consumer inspiration.

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