Vice President, Packaging Operations Excellence, Stretch and Upstream Innovation

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.

Leads Corporate Packaging Operations Supporting Best in Class NPL Across Brands and Categories

• Leads Packaging Testing operations supporting Brands and Categories NPL across the global footprint (US, EU, Asia dotted line); includes the establishment of testing methodologies and practices supporting early risk discovery and management and lead the development of new methods.
• Leads technical design, modelling and simulation, developing the capability to support best in class “art to science” in the NPL process while enhancing predictive modelling.
• Establishes & leads ELC Packaging Center Of Excellence Hub (NYC), establish the EU Operating Excellence eco-system, & design and implement the operating model through global operations.
• Leads Supplier technical excellence in partnership with GSM and VRO, auditing technical competencies of new partners where necessary & leading competency improvement plans where necessary.
• Manages and governs Packaging Operations Excellence group operating budget, ensuring sufficiency & day to day governance.

• Establishes a packaging Platforms strategy for global Packaging & ensure plans are in place to lead & execute with excellence through the Category Platform teams.
• Ensure the operating eco-system is fit for purpose to enable the company priority Platform agenda.

• Explore & establish a high-performing external innovation eco-system & technology partnerships enabling ELC strategic innovation and growth agenda. Involving the negotiation of partnerships & piloting with clear success criteria, governed via a strict collaboration rhythm & performance expectations.
• Lead technology discovery big bets serving ELC biggest growth opportunity spaces, in coordination with R&D and GSM.
• Lead Material Science innovation unlocking key material challenges & leading the discovery of novel sustainable material solutions serving ELC global Packaging agenda.
• Own Packaging IP strategy, involving the development of internal & external capability to create, capture, & protect IP.
• Connect-in the APAC innovation eco-system via Shanghai Packaging team  

• Owns & drives continuous improvement of Packaging Work Processes serving global Packaging operations in partnership with Category VPs, ensuring delivery with excellence, initiative speed and simplification for all eco-system actors.
• Coordinates Packaging L&D programs, building shared ways of working and leading the increase of technical & operational competency across Packaging operations.
• Leads Packaging Digital strategy, PLM design, integration and Digital transformation, including accelerated AI impact. Orchestrates and sponsors the systems roadmap, ensuring appropriate resourcing and change management. Deploy AI/ML use cases to improve reliability and performance; leading experimentation-to-scale.

• Lead & direct packaging assets integration as needed by integration level requirements and destination brand operating model
• Support capability builds where needed in the context of chosen destination brand operating model

• Education/Certification:
  
  Minimum BS degree in Mechanical, Chemical or Materials Engineering, Packaging Science or technical…