Global Manager, Mission & Sustainability

The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. is one of the world’s leading manufacturers, marketers, and sellers of quality skin care, makeup, fragrance, and hair care products, and is a steward of luxury and prestige brands globally. The company’s products are sold in approximately 150 countries and territories under brand names including:
Estée Lauder, Aramis, Clinique, Lab Series, Origins, MAC, La Mer, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics, Aveda, Jo Malone London, Bumble and bumble, Darphin Paris, TOM FORD, Smashbox, AERIN Beauty, Le Labo, Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle, GLAMGLOW, KILIAN PARIS, Too Faced, Dr.Jart+, the DECIEM family of brands, including The Ordinary and NIOD, and BALMAIN Beauty.

TITLE:

Global Manager, Mission & Sustainability

LOCATION:

Blaine, MN Hybrid (in office 4 days per week)

REPORTS TO:

Executive Director, Mission and Sustainability

Working at Aveda means helping to steward our mission to care for the world we live in—from the products we create to the ways we give back to society. The Global Manager, Mission & Sustainability plays a central role in advancing Aveda’s leadership in sustainability, social impact, and responsible beauty.

• Research and identify leading edge opportunities for sustainability and social impact oritize initiatives across functions to drive measurable progress. Develop tools, training, and resources to build sustainability knowledge across marketing, sourcing, and broader teams.
• Maintain Aveda’s certifications and standards program, serving as point of contact and program manager. Monitor evolving global sustainability regulations, certification changes, and industry standards to assess risk and guide teams on compliant, future-ready approaches. Track, automate and maintain information and reporting necessary to meet evolving standards and recertification activity.
• Drive partnerships and community relationships. Serve as point of contact for Aveda nonprofit partners around the world. Manage storytelling opportunities and coordinate across the business. Deepen relationship with Aveda’s artist and salon community, activating this diverse network in support of making a positive impact on the world, including managing Aveda’s long running 30+ year Earth Month activation globally.
• Collaborate closely with Aveda marketing teams to develop robust and compelling mission-driven stories around Aveda’s vegan, plant powered, high-performance products for hair, skin and body. Support the development of sourcing stories across our supplier and ingredient list. Work with cross functional teams at Aveda and Estee Lauder to develop and substantiate sustainability and sourcing claims. Enable teams to confidently communicate mission and sustainability work.
• Manage Aveda’s global philanthropic grant program, administering the grant’s process, due diligence, and working with Aveda and Estee Lauder’s donor-advised Fund.
• Serve as an information resource on sustainability and social issues and solutions across the company, including internal events and communications.
• Monitor and track program impacts and results.

• Bachelor’s degree required in a relevant field
• 5+ years of experience in an related role, focusing on sustainability, corporate social responsibility, environmental impact, philanthropy and/or community partnerships
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite
• Strong attention to details
• Ability to Travel Up to 10% of the Time
• Excellent communication, presentation, cross-functional collaboration and relationship building skills
• Experience coordinating projects, events, timelines, vendors, and multi-stakeholder environments
• Authentic Alignment with the Aveda Mission

The anticipated base salary range for this position is $78,800.00 to $. Exact…