- Location
- Bristol Pennsylvania USA
- Employment
- Full-Time
- Seniority
- Manager
- Department
- Supply Chain, Logistics & Inventory
- Posted
- Oct 30, 2026
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.
Estée Lauder Companies seeks a Distribution Area Manager for its Pennsylvania Distribution Center in Bristol, Pennsylvania, to lead a team of 15–20 order and material handlers and drive safety, quality and productivity. The role oversees workforce performance, order processing, shipping accuracy, finished-goods inventory, shipment staging and distribution-system data, while leading team meetings and continuous improvement and supporting a warehouse execution software transformation. Full-time, regular role; anticipated base salary is $63,000–$91,250, depending on qualifications, skills, experience and/or budget, based on a 40-hour work week, with the range scaled accordingly.
Role & Responsibilities
- Manage the assigned non-exempt workforce, focusing on daily productivity and accuracy standards while ensuring positive employee relations.
- Process orders to meet or exceed monthly sales budgets.
- Conduct and lead team meetings.
- Ensure picking and shipping accuracy.
- Oversee finished-goods inventory and warehousing.
- Participate in LEAN and continuous improvement projects.
- Stage shipments in accordance with company policies and state, federal and international regulations.
- Maintain accurate data on computerized distribution systems, including WMS, IPTI and SAP.
- Develop the talents and capabilities of a team of 15–20 order and material handlers.
- Lead and deliver change associated with the warehouse execution software transformation.
Qualifications
- Demonstrated strong execution and proactively seeks ways to improve personal and organizational effectiveness.
- Agility and ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities.
- Builds collaborative relationships and provides team members with clarity about their roles in achieving goals.
- Thinks strategically, takes a broad view of the environment and plans for the future.
- Embraces and initiates change, challenges the existing environment and proactively seeks process improvements.
Skills
Workplace
The role is situated in Bristol, Pennsylvania, USA — conveniently close to Philadelphia.
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Benefits
Eligible employees may receive medical, dental and vision insurance; wellness and family support programs; life and disability insurance; retirement savings plans; education-related programs; paid holidays and vacation time; and potential participation in an applicable commission/bonus plan, subject to plan guidelines and role eligibility.
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.
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