Executive Director, Organization Design

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.

Description

The Executive Director, Organization Design is a senior leader within The Estée Lauder Companies’ Organizational Effectiveness Center of Excellence. This role leads enterprise-wide organization design and operating model engagements that translate business strategy into practical organizational solutions. This is a hands-on leadership role for an experienced practitioner with deep expertise in operating model and organization structure design, governance, decision rights, and ways of working.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead complex, enterprise-wide organization design and operating model engagements, translating business strategy into clear design principles, requirements, and practical organizational solutions.
• Assess organizational challenges using qualitative and quantitative evidence. Identify root causes across structure, governance, decision rights, accountabilities, processes, and ways of working.
• Use workforce data, including spans, layers, cost, and management ratios, to inform design decisions. Partner with workforce planning and analytics specialists to address future workforce requirements.
• Develop and compare design options, clearly explaining the benefits, risks, dependencies, and tradeoffs of each.
• Advise senior leaders on critical organizational decisions and facilitate discussions that build alignment and drive decisions.
• Translate the selected direction into future-state organizational structures, governance, decision rights, interaction models, and ways of working.
• Lead change management for organization and operating model redesigns, including stakeholder alignment, impact assessment, and adoption planning.
• Build ELC’s organization design and operating model methodologies, tools, standards, and playbooks ensuring they are practical and easy to use for People Partners.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in operating model design, organization design, organizational effectiveness, human capital consulting, or a related field.
• Experience guiding senior executives through significant operating model choices and tradeoffs in a global, matrixed organization.
• Strong business acumen and the ability to translate business strategy into practical operating model decisions.
• Experience leading the change management directly associated with operating model and organization redesigns.
• Strong structured problem-solving, facilitation, organizational analytics, and executive communication skills.
• Exceptional judgment, discretion, and ability to navigate ambiguity.
• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred.

Pay Range:

The anticipated base salary range for this position is $158,650.00 to $272,700.00. Exact salary depends on several factors such as experience, skills, education, and budget. Salary range may vary based on geographic location. In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for participation in a highly competitive bonus program as well as participation in the share incentive plan. In addition,

In addition to base salary, this position is eligible for participation in a highly competitive bonus program with the possibility for overachievement based on performance and company results. In addition, The Estée Lauder Companies offers a variety of benefits to eligible employees, including health insurance coverage (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, and many others. Many of these benefits are subsidized or fully paid for by the company.

Equal Opportunity Employer

It is Company's policy not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), gender identity or gender expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, protected medical condition as defined by applicable state or local law, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws and ordinances. The Company will endeavor to provide a reasonable accommodation consistent with the law to otherwise qualified employees and prospective employees with a disability and to employees and prospective employees with needs related to their religious observance or practices. Should you wish to apply for this position or any other position with the Company and you believe you require assistance to complete an application or participate in an interview, please contact [email protected].

Michigan Applicants: Persons with disabilities needing accommodations for employment must notify the company in writing of the need for an accommodation within 182 days after the date the person with a disability knew or reasonably should have known that an accommodation was needed.

Philadelphia Applicants: Philadelphia's Fair Chance Hiring Law

Rhode Island Applicants: The company is subject to chapters 29-38 of title 28 of the general laws of Rhode Island and is therefore covered by the state's workers' compensation law.