Director, Global Brand NPL Finance

About the position

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 Global Brand NPL (New Product Launch) Finance Team drives financial rigor and governance across New Product lifecycle to maximize accretive profitable innovations. The Global Brand NPL Finance Director facilitates standardization of NPL financial planning and analysis across the Global Brands, identifies and shares best practices, drives continued process improvements, and monitors tracking and governance. The Director reports to the SVP Finance & Strategy, Global Brand Cluster, and partners closely with Brand Finance, Marketing, Business Planning and Value Chain teams.

Responsibilities

• Enterprise/Cluster-level NPL Standardization, Escalation and Governance
• Deploy and monitor standard NPL financial planning process, definitions, and requirements across all Global Brands
• Manage and serve as single source of NPL financial data for other ELC planning workstreams (e.g., management reporting, IBP, MPR) across the organization
• Coordinate and run quarterly NPL escalation reviews with Executive Group Presidents to monitor program status, accretion/dilution, ROI, and drive cure or cancel decisions
• Facilitate communications across ELC to ensure transparency of NPL progress, risks, post-launch performance, and maintain timely updates to ELC Leadership
• Drive continued NPL financial process improvements, leveraging OneSource and automation and sharing best practices across brands
• Serve as NPL Finance SME and responsible for training new Global Brand Finance team members
• Support Brand-level NPL Financial Planning and Analyses at Small Brands
• Work with Brand Finance VPs to set NPL guardrails and deliver program ROI analyses
• Partners with Brand Finance, Marketing, Business Planning and Value Chain teams to develop NPL program financial analyses (with vetted assumptions on volume, net extra, COGS) to support go/no-go decisions throughout NPL stage gates
• Liaise with Regional partners to collect financial, consumer, retail, and inventory for post-launch program tracking
• Leverage Technology and Systems to Deliver Long Term Automated Solution
• Develop expertise in our platforms to facilitate NPL planning efficiency and reporting
• Design and update existing enabling platforms for workflow and reporting
• Leverage analytic tools, services, and resources to lead and train brand colleagues and functional partners
• Manage and provide on-going process and tool enablement training to Global Brands, Regions and Functions

Requirements

• BA/BS in finance or related field and minimum of 8 years work experience
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including the ability to organize, synthesize complex data and effectively communicate recommendations to stakeholders
• Exceptional analytical, quantitative and problem-solving skills with experience in influencing business leaders with well thought out and data-driven recommendations
• Ability to manage multiple tasks, strong project management skills, and partner with cross functional teams to ensure adoption
• Solution-oriented and ability to build, manage and collaborate with business partners across global, regions and functions
• Experience with analyzing large amounts of data and proposing data-driven solutions that are actionable and measurable
• Proficient in Excel and PowerPoint; Experience with PowerBI and Tableau preferred but not necessary
• Familiarity with Finance, Marketing, Business Planning and Supply Chain is preferred

Benefits

• Health insurance coverage
• Wellness and family support programs
• Life and disability insurance
• Retirement savings plans
• Paid leave programs
• Education-related programs
• Paid holidays and vacation time