The Estée Lauder Companies (ELC) Inc. is a Fortune 500 company, headquartered in New York City.

We are the global leader in prestige beauty — delighting over half a billion consumers each year with transformative products and experiences, inspiring them to express their individual beauty. We are the only company focused solely on prestige makeup, skin care, fragrance and hair care with a diverse portfolio of 25+ brands sold in approximately 150 countries and territories. Infused throughout our organization is a passion for creativity and innovation — a desire to push the boundaries and invent the unexpected — as we continue the bold work of our founder Estée Lauder.

The Strategic Marketing Initiatives and Community team is part of the Enterprise Marketing & Data (EM&D) organization and supports the delivery of EM&D’s vision through enabling Marketing talent with best-in-class learning and development, processes, operating model/structure and corporate tools/frameworks to mobilize excellence in execution.

Marketing Upskilling in particular is a key priority for the organization. Our ambition is to create and leverage world-class Marketing Training Programs that attract and incubate Top Talent to fuel long term growth. Some of the training programs in the pipeline include topics as seminal as Brand Equity, Brand Strategy, Conceptual Storytelling and Data & Analytics.

The Director, Strategic Marketing Initiatives & Community will play a leadership role across various initiatives related to Marketing Talent Development and will liaise with different sub-teams with EM&D, Corporate Strategy and Transformation teams as well as with Brands, Regions and Functions.

Some of the key priorities this individual will drive include:

• Stewarding the Marketing Capability Building and Transformation agenda  

• Managing content and agenda for the Global Marketing Council, a consortium of senior Global and Regional Marketing Leaders -chaired by Jane Lauder- leveraging this forum to solicit and sanity-check various strategic interventions, including but not limited to trainings

• Developing an ELC point-of-view on various strategic interventions requested by the Marketing Council, including areas such as process interventions, org. structure, or analytics

• Defining a Vision, Roadmap, and Calendar for Marketing Training Programs, aligned to EM&D and business priorities and in sync with Senior Leadership feedback

• Building out training strategy and content thesis, leveraging both internal and external experts and thought leaders to refine and flesh out content

• Supplementing training and capability enablement through developing ELC-ownable corporate toolkits and frameworks, and leading Brand-specific workshops to embed new ways of working

• Identifying insights and best practices in various topical areas and driving opportunities to cross-fertilize learnings across Brands

• Orchestrating evolutions in marketing capabilities and processes resulting from various EM&D workstreams to enable seamless employee-facing change management

• Day to day Marketing Training budget management

• Developing executive level presentations and communications

QUALIFICATIONS

The ideal candidate has:

• Experience in strategy consulting with a passion for driving change

• Experience handling multiple stakeholders and functions across a large organization

• Analytical thinking

• Strong problem-solving skills, intellectual curiosity, executive communication, and ability to collaborate with cross-functional and regional partners.  

• Strong presentation/PowerPoint skills

• Ability to work in fast paced environment

• Background in Marketing a plus, but not mandatory

We are an equal opportunity employer. Minorities, women, veterans, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply. 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 USApplicantAccommodations@Estee.com.

The Estée Lauder Companies (ELC) is the global leader in prestige beauty. ELC is the only company focused solely on prestige makeup, skin care, fragrance and hair care with a diverse portfolio of 25+ brands sold in approximately 150 countries and territories. Infused throughout the organization is a passion for creativity and innovation — a desire to push the boundaries and invent the unexpected — as we continue the bold work of the company’s founder Estée Lauder.