Associate Fellow, Platform, Scale & Innovation, Fragrance

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.

Description The Associate Fellow, Platform, Scale & Innovation Packaging is a senior technical leader responsible for identifying, developing, connecting, and scaling packaging technologies and capabilities that enable innovation across The Estée Lauder Companies.

Operating across brands, categories, suppliers, Research & Innovation (R&I), the Packaging Inspiration Lab, Technical Centers, and Manufacturing sites, this role connects consumer desire, emerging trends, technical capability, and enterprise scale to create packaging solutions that can be leveraged broadly across ELC.The Associate Fellow serves as a technical authority and innovation catalyst, translating emerging consumer needs, technologies, supplier capabilities, and internal engineering expertise into product-and-package systems, packaging platforms, technology engines, menu/stock packaging solutions, and shared cross-brand capabilities.

A critical responsibility of this role is connecting innovation across the organization. The Associate Fellow maintains a strong understanding of technical work, equipment, engineering capability, pilots, trials, materials, manufacturing technologies, and emerging solutions within the Melville Technical Center and ELC manufacturing sites, identifying opportunities to connect these capabilities to current and future brand needs.

The role also champions new digital and AI-enabled ways of working, applying artificial intelligence to technical simulations, concept development, engineering problem-solving, knowledge management, and the automation or simplification of historically time-intensive packaging development activities.

Key Success Measures Leadership Mindset Connect. Invent. Scale.

Associate Fellows create impact through deep technical expertise, enterprise thinking, curiosity, and influence.

They look beyond individual brand programs to identify technologies and capabilities that can solve broader business needs. They connect consumer and market insights with R&I, Packaging Development, suppliers, engineering, manufacturing, and technical capabilities to accelerate the development of meaningful packaging innovation.

They are recognized as technical thought leaders who anticipate where packaging is going, identify opportunities before they become immediate business needs, and translate emerging capabilities into practical solutions that can be commercialized and scaled across ELC.Their success is measured not simply by the programs they support, but by the technologies, platforms, systems, capabilities, and new ways of working they create and enable for the broader organization.

Consumer-Led Innovation & R&I Partnership The Associate Fellow closely partners with Research & Innovation and the Packaging Inspiration Lab to translate consumer desires, emerging behaviors, cultural trends, product innovation, and marketplace shifts into differentiated packaging opportunities.

Partner closely with R&I and the Packaging Inspiration Lab to identify emerging consumer needs and translate them into innovative…