Estée Lauder Companies Packaging Compliance Engineer

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.

The Packaging Compliance Engineer executes and improves packaging compliance programs, including North American EPR reporting, EU PPWR readiness, supplier documentation, and packaging substance standards, while coordinating regulatory guidance and audit-ready records across internal and external partners. The role is full-time and eligible for a performance-based bonus.

Role & Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day execution of North American EPR registration, reporting, authority submissions, producer responsibility organization communications, deadline tracking, and recordkeeping for applicable U.S. and Canadian programs.
• Maintain EPR trackers, program calendars, authority contacts, global contact lists, login records, mailbox follow-up, payment and fee evidence, and supporting files to keep reporting documentation current and audit-ready.
• Monitor emerging packaging obligations and summarize business impact, required actions, ownership, timing, and escalation needs for management review.
• Coordinate with consultants, affiliates, Finance, Sustainability, Packaging, and other internal partners to close reporting gaps and support timely submissions.
• Drive working-level readiness for assigned EU PPWR activities, including declaration-of-conformity support, evidence collection, system documentation, and regulatory intelligence tracking.
• Monitor PPWR substances-of-concern developments and compare emerging requirements with packaging materials and substance standards, partnering with Materials Science, Sustainability, Legal, and Regulatory stakeholders.
• Provide practical guidance on excess space, regional packaging requirements, and emerging LATAM or APAC packaging obligations by routing questions to subject-matter experts and preparing concise business summaries as needed.
• Manage working-level updates and evidence collection for the Packaging Materials and Substance Compliance Standard, coordinating stakeholder review input and open technical questions.
• Respond to supplier, brand, packaging, and internal business questions involving REACH/SVHC, CMRs, antimicrobial treatment, sterilization, PFAS, BPA, wood-origin information, and other packaging substance or material concerns.
• Organize and maintain certification and declaration files, including REACH/SVHC requests, child-resistant closure GCCs, and other packaging documentation needed for retailer, consumer, regulatory, or audit support.
• Maintain and improve the Packaging Compliance SOP and supporting requirements matrices so Packaging designers and cross-functional partners can understand and apply regulatory requirements consistently.
• Improve compliance workflows, ownership models, evidence capture, mailbox management, escalation pathways, and team handoffs to reduce key-person dependency and strengthen business continuity.
• Use trackers, dashboards, and structured documentation to make regulatory deadlines, open actions, risk areas, and ownership visible to management and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Independently triage routine packaging compliance questions and determine when escalation to Legal, Quality, Toxicology, Materials Science, Sustainability, Packaging, or management is required.
• Prepare concise issue summaries, risk considerations, and recommended next steps for business-impacting or legally sensitive matters, including packaging substance concerns, special promotional items, spa-use items, gift sets, and market-specific restrictions.
• Build effective working relationships across Packaging, Sustainability, Materials Science, Legal, Quality, Finance, brands, affiliates, consultants, and external producers or authorities to support compliant, commercially practical outcomes.
• Work under manager direction on high-risk regulatory interpretations, external authority responses, policy exceptions, or decisions with potential market-access, financial, legal, or reputational impact.
• Support invoice tracking, fee documentation, and evidence for EPR or packaging compliance-related payments; the role has no direct people-management or operating-budget responsibility.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Engineering or a related technical discipline.
• Packaging, sustainability, quality, regulatory, environmental reporting, or project management certification is a plus.
• At least 2 years preferred in packaging, consumer products, regulatory compliance, sustainability, materials, quality, or environmental reporting; strong technical entry-level candidates may be considered.
• Strong written communication, follow-through, attention to detail, prioritization, and issue-escalation skills.
• Ability to work independently on routine matters, manage multiple regulatory deadlines, identify compliance gaps, and escalate high-risk or legally sensitive matters with clear recommendations.

Skills

Experience

At least 2 years preferred in packaging, consumer products, regulatory compliance, sustainability, materials, quality, or environmental reporting; strong technical entry-level candidates may be considered.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Engineering or a related technical discipline.

Compensation

The base compensation for this position ranges from USD 75,000 to USD 90,000 per annum.

Benefits

Eligible employees may receive medical, dental, and vision insurance; wellness and family support programs; life and disability insurance; retirement savings plans; paid leave programs; education-related programs; paid holidays and vacation time. Many benefits are subsidized or fully paid by the company. The position is also eligible for a competitive bonus program with the possibility of overachievement based on performance and company results.

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.

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