Director, Portfolio Management, Tech, D&A

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, M
· A·C, 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.

This role is part of the Office of the Chief of Staff (COS) to the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Technology, Data & Analytics (TD&A). The Director, Portfolio Management is responsible for leading enterprise portfolio operations and governance across Technology, Data & Analytics, ensuring effective demand management, prioritization, resource allocation, and execution governance.

This role serves as the operational integrator across the TD&A portfolio, driving alignment between strategic priorities, organizational capacity, financial planning, and execution outcomes. The Director partners closely with senior leaders, Finance, other COS functions, and key stakeholders from across the TD&A organization including Global Process Owners (GPOs), portfolio and PMO leads, and Capability Strategic Governance leads to enable disciplined portfolio decision-making, transparent prioritization, and optimized execution of project portfolio across the enterprise.

• This role requires a highly operational and analytically driven leader who can balance enterprise priorities with execution realities.
• Must possess strong expertise in portfolio operations, demand management, prioritization, and resource optimization within complex Technology organizations.
• Requires proven expertise in Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) and process optimization, with a track record of applying Lean principles to eliminate operational and executional waste, streamline complex intake and governance workflows, reduce cycle times, and accelerate enterprise value delivery.
• Requires exceptional influencing and negotiation skills to align leaders on competing priorities, resource tradeoffs, sequencing decisions, and execution plans.
• Must be able to operate effectively in highly matrixed environments with shifting priorities and evolving organizational demands.
• Requires strong business acumen and data-driven decision-making capabilities to support investment optimization and portfolio performance management.
• Must proactively identify execution risks, portfolio dependencies, resource constraints, and operational bottlenecks across the organization.
• This role requires both strategic perspective and operational rigor, with the ability to translate enterprise priorities into executable portfolio plans.

• Lead enterprise demand management (including annual, quarterly and ad-hoc) and portfolio operations processes across Technology, Data & Analytics (including other enterprise transformation that require tech investments which may receive funding overlays from other stakeholders across ELC).
• Establish, manage and continually evolve and optimize intake frameworks, operational governance processes, and portfolio operating cadences to drive efficienes and a focus on value creation and delivery.
• Partner with leaders across TD&A to evaluate, prioritize, and align demand and portfolio to strategic priorities at the Enterprise, Tech, Data & Analytics, and Functional/Regional/Brand…