Estée Lauder Companies Vice President, Media & Growth Analytics
- Employment
- Full-Time
- Seniority
- Executive
- Compensation
- $285,550–486,100/year
- Department
- Executive & General Management
- Posted
- Sep 22, 2026
Estée Lauder Companies seeks VP, Media & Growth Analytics in New York to lead global analytics practice and media strategy transformation.
Role & Responsibilities
- Establish global media data foundations across online and offline channels in close partnership with global media agency and technology teams to ensure scalable, future-ready infrastructure
- Partner with global IT and Technology teams to design and build a global data product, ensuring seamless integration, accessibility, and usability across global and local use cases
- Develop a global marketing ROI program with AI-enabled capabilities to inform investment decisions, shifting from reactive reporting to operationalizing predictive intelligence and scenario modeling
- Lead data analysts and collaborate with technology partners to develop and scale global dashboards enabling real-time insights and driving full-funnel marketing strategy decisions
- Lead a team developing global media and audience strategies to fuel growth in partnership with new media agency partners
- Collaborate with global brand teams to embed media and data expertise into integrated communications and brand experiences
- Work closely with media leads to localize global media strategies according to local media landscape specificities
- Establish global measurement frameworks and learning agendas to assess the value and impact of global media strategies
- Execute media capability-building programs for diverse organizational profiles, ensuring global upskilling on media strategy fundamentals
- Embed global Marketing ROI capability programs across ELC teams with clear feedback loops to continuously improve performance
- Build a community of media and marketing experts, sharing best practices and case studies from brands worldwide
- Lead joint business plans with global platform partners such as Google, Meta, and TikTok
- Identify new opportunities across emerging platforms and publishers aligned with global category media strategies
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree required; MBA or advanced degree in Marketing or Analytics preferred
- 10+ years of experience in global consumer intelligence, analytics, or strategy, ideally within prestige beauty, luxury, or consumer packaged goods sectors
- Proven success influencing executive leadership and driving consumer-centric transformation across complex organizations
- Expertise in foresight methodologies, market analytics, and innovation strategy
- Skilled at navigating complex, global organizations and influencing diverse stakeholders
- Exceptional communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts into business impact
- Experience partnering with analytics, marketing, and technology teams
- Deep understanding of major media agencies and proven ability to work successfully with them
- Demonstrated capability to lead through influence across matrixed, global organizations, balancing central strategy with local market activation
- Detailed knowledge of the prestige beauty landscape, including internal and external competitive dynamics
Skills
Experience
10+ years in global consumer intelligence, analytics, strategy development, or related functions, preferably within prestige beauty, luxury goods, or consumer packaged goods industries. Substantial experience leading large, diverse teams across geographies, partnering with analytics and technology functions, and driving organizational transformation initiatives. Demonstrated success collaborating with top-tier media agencies and technology platforms at a strategic level.
Education
Bachelor's degree required. MBA or advanced degree in Marketing, Analytics, Business Administration, or related field preferred.
Workplace
This position is based in New York, New York, USA.
Compensation
The base compensation for this position ranges from USD 285,550 to USD 486,100 per annum.
Benefits
Health insurance coverage (medical, dental, and vision), wellness and family support programs, life and disability insurance, retirement savings plans, paid leave programs, education-related programs, paid holidays and vacation time, competitive bonus program with possibility for overachievement based on performance and company results, share incentive plan
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