Analyst, Packaging Inspiration Lab

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.

The Packaging Inspiration Lab (PIL) Analyst is an entry point into The Estée Lauder Companies’ broader Packaging organization, designed to build the next generation of Packaging professionals through hands‑on experience, technical development, and cross‑functional collaboration.

The Analyst supports the identification, development, and acceleration of packaging innovation opportunities by connecting consumer insights, emerging trends and technologies, supplier capabilities, and category strategies. Working at the intersection of consumer, design, technology, and business, the role translates emerging opportunities into actionable packaging solutions and compelling visual concepts that bring innovation to life across ELC’s diverse brands and categories.

This role combines research and strategic thinking with foundational packaging knowledge, technical visualization, and cross‑functional collaboration. As part of a small, agile team, the Analyst embraces new challenges, adapts quickly to evolving priorities, and proactively contributes wherever needed. The role also supports the development of scalable innovation frameworks that strengthen category strategies, accelerate early‑stage innovation, and drive long‑term business growth.

• Demonstrate curiosity, analytical thinking, and a passion for continuous learning.
• Approach work with a positive, adaptable, and solutions‑oriented mindset.
• Manage assignments independently while adapting to shifting priorities and timelines.
• Exercise sound judgment by recognizing when to seek guidance or
  ** escalate strategic decisions**.
• Take ownership of personal development by actively seeking feedback, building new capabilities, and applying learnings to increasingly complex assignments.

• Connect consumer insights, emerging technologies, supplier capabilities, and category strategies to identify packaging innovation opportunities.
• Translate ideas into actionable packaging solutions that support business priorities and category needs.
• Connect ideas across consumer insights, design, technology, and business.
• Support the development of scalable innovation frameworks that strengthen category strategies, accelerate early‑stage innovation, and drive long‑term business growth.
• Develop an understanding of ELC brands, consumers, category strategies, and distinctive brand identities.
• Understand how packaging innovation can strengthen brand expression, consumer experience, and commercial value across different brands and categories.
• Translate brand identity, design language, consumer needs, and innovation opportunities into compelling visual packaging expressions that demonstrate how concepts could come to life across different brands and categories.

• Identify relevant research and evaluate information from multiple sources.
• Translate findings into innovation briefs, presentations, and storytelling materials.
• Research and monitor emerging consumer, packaging, retail, technology, sustainability, and…