Estée Lauder Companies Director, Engagement Partner

About Estée Lauder Companies

The Estée Lauder Companies is a global leader in prestige beauty, founded in 1946 by Estée and Joseph Lauder and built on an enduring belief in creativity, high-touch service, and entrepreneurial spirit. As an employer, the Group offers talent the scale of an international house with the energy of distinctive brands across skincare, makeup, fragrance, and hair care. Its culture values innovation, inclusion, learning, and responsible growth, inviting professionals to shape consumer experiences from laboratory to counter, digital platform to boardroom. Employees join a purpose-led organization where heritage, artistry, and scientific excellence meet to define the future of luxury beauty.

Role & Responsibilities

• Drive the successful execution of enterprise organizational effectiveness engagements through structured problem-solving, analysis, and delivery excellence.
• Work with Engagement Leads to design and implement organizational solutions, ensuring high-quality outputs, analytical rigor, and consistent delivery.
• Translate complex business challenges into actionable approaches and recommendations, partnering with stakeholders and cross-functional teams on organizational design, operating models, workforce planning, and transformation initiatives.
• Support end-to-end delivery of organizational effectiveness engagements, ensuring disciplined execution across workstreams.
• Translate business challenges into structured workplans, hypotheses, and analytical approaches.
• Develop deliverables that communicate insights, recommendations, and business implications, ensuring they meet standards for quality, accuracy, and practical application.
• Conduct analysis to support organizational design, operating model, and workforce-related decisions.
• Partner with workforce planning and analytics resources to integrate data-driven insights into recommendations.
• Support scenario modeling, option evaluation, and assessment of tradeoffs.
• Synthesize complex information into clear narratives that support stakeholder understanding and decision-making.
• Lead defined workstreams, tracking progress and ensuring accountability and alignment with engagement objectives.
• Coordinate activities across stakeholders and teams to drive timely, effective execution.
• Identify and mitigate risks, issues, and dependencies proactively.
• Balance speed, quality, and attention to detail throughout delivery.
• Support stakeholder engagement by preparing materials, facilitating discussions, and aligning on key decisions.
• Coordinate across business leaders, HR partners, and COE stakeholders within assigned workstreams.
• Capture, synthesize, and incorporate stakeholder feedback into deliverables and recommendations.
• Build trusted relationships that promote collaboration and effective execution.
• Partner with HRBPs and People teams to embed organizational design and workforce planning practices in strategic initiatives and business-as-usual operations.
• Collaborate with People Experience teams to translate organizational design and operating model recommendations into effective execution and sustainable adoption.
• Help align organizational solutions with talent, change, and workforce priorities.
• Apply OE methodologies, standards, and best practices to ensure consistency and quality across engagements.
• Identify opportunities to improve tools, templates, and delivery approaches.
• Contribute to the development and refinement of OE playbooks, frameworks, and methodologies.
• Support capability building and knowledge sharing across the OE CoE.

Qualifications

• At least 10 years of experience in organizational effectiveness, consulting, or HR transformation roles, including strong experience in analytical problem-solving and structured delivery.
• Demonstrated experience supporting complex organizational design, operating model, or transformation initiatives.
• Strong analytical capability, including experience synthesizing data and translating insights into actionable recommendations.
• Experience working in a matrixed, global organization and navigating multiple stakeholders and priorities.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to develop clear, compelling materials and narratives.
• High attention to detail and commitment to delivery excellence.
• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree is a plus.

Skills

Experience

At least 10 years in organizational effectiveness, consulting, or HR transformation roles, with strong experience in analytical problem-solving and structured delivery.

Education

Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree is a plus.

Culture

The Estée Lauder Companies fosters a collaborative, inclusive workplace where creativity, entrepreneurial thinking, and a passion for prestige beauty are deeply valued. As a global house of distinctive brands, it offers employees an environment that encourages innovation, professional growth, and a shared commitment to excellence and consumer inspiration.

About Cerulean

Cerulean is the definitive career portal for the global luxury industry. We match exceptional professionals with exclusive opportunities at the world's most prestigious brands. From haute couture and fine watchmaking to prestige beauty, hospitality, and boutique retail, Cerulean centralises luxury employment to help you find the career for which you were destined.