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.
Position Summary
The Executive Director, ERP & Value Chain Platform Engineering is a senior technology executive accountable for the enterprise platforms that enable ELC's end-to-end value chain across Finance, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Quality, Planning, Procurement, Warehouse Management, and Research & Development. Reporting to the Vice President, Enterprise Platform Engineering, this role serves as the executive platform owner responsible for the strategy, governance, lifecycle management, modernization, and business outcomes of ELC's SAP-centric ERP and Value Chain platform portfolio.
Operating within ELC's Enterprise Platform Engineering operating model, this leader serves as the primary technology counterpart to Enterprise Product Design Engineering, Tech, Data & Analytics Leaders, Enterprise Architecture, Operations & Infrastructure, Cyber Security, Enterprise Business Services (EBS), and strategic technology partners. The Executive Director translates approved business capabilities into coordinated platform strategies, modernization roadmaps, engineering realization plans, and technology investments while maintaining accountability for platform outcomes beginning at build through production acceptance.
Position Summary (Continued)
The Executive Director provides strategic leadership across a portfolio of enterprise platforms supporting Finance, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Quality, Planning, Procurement, Warehouse Management, and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), ensuring these business-critical capabilities remain scalable, resilient, secure, and aligned with evolving business priorities. This role governs engineering realization delivered through Enterprise Business Services (EBS), strategic technology partners, and Enterprise Platform Engineering while ensuring engineering quality, platform optimization, operational readiness, and long-term technology sustainability.
Through leadership of the ERP & Value Chain Platform Engineering organization, this role drives enterprise platform modernization, business capability transformation, and continuous improvement across ELC's global value chain. The Executive Director champions engineering excellence, platform ownership, AI-enabled engineering practices, and technology innovation while strengthening organizational capability and enabling future-ready business platforms that support the company's continued growth and digital transformation.
Key Roles & Responsibilities
A. Platform Strategy, Ownership & Lifecycle (35%)
Provide strategic leadership and long-term ownership for ELC's ERP & Value Chain platform portfolio, ensuring enterprise platforms continue to evolve in alignment with business priorities, enterprise technology direction, engineering standards, and long-term business capability objectives.
Responsibilities
• Own the platform roadmap, lifecycle strategy, modernization initiatives, and long-term evolution of the ERP & Value Chain platform portfolio supporting Finance, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Quality, Planning, Procurement, Warehouse Management, and Research & Development.
• Partner with Enterprise Product Design Engineering and Tech, Data & Analytics Leaders to translate approved business capabilities into coordinated platform roadmaps, engineering realization plans, and technology investment strategies.
• Lead enterprise platform modernization initiatives that strengthen ERP capabilities, optimize end-to-end business processes, improve technical sustainability, and enable future-ready business platforms.
• Balance business priorities, engineering capacity, modernization objectives, operational readiness, and long-term platform sustainability across a complex portfolio of enterprise business platforms.
• Provide stewardship of platform technology investments, vendor relationships, engineering tooling, software licensing, and technology contracts supporting the ERP & Value Chain platform portfolio.
Key Roles & Responsibilities (Continued)
B. Platform Ownership & Delivery Governance (30%)
Maintain accountability for successful platform realization beginning at build through production acceptance while governing engineering realization, delivery quality, platform health, and continuous platform optimization.
Responsibilities
• Own successful delivery outcomes across the ERP & Value Chain platform portfolio while governing engineering realization delivered through Enterprise Business Services (EBS), strategic technology partners, and Enterprise Platform Engineering.
• Establish accountability for engineering quality, platform health, release readiness, environment strategy, operational readiness, and cross-platform dependencies across Finance, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Quality, Planning, Procurement, Warehouse Management, and Research & Development platforms.
• Drive platform optimization through continuous evaluation of environment utilization, landscape strategy, platform capacity, technology utilization, software licensing, data lifecycle management, engineering tooling, and engineering operating efficiency to maximize long-term platform value.
• Govern engineering standards, platform quality, modernization initiatives, technical sustainability, and delivery governance across the ERP & Value Chain platform portfolio.
• Establish engineering performance metrics, governance practices, and operational measures that improve predictability, engineering quality, platform health, and long-term business outcomes.
Key Roles & Responsibilities (Continued)
C. Product Partnership & Platform Realization (20%)
Partner across Enterprise Product Design Engineering, Enterprise Architecture, Operations & Infrastructure, Cyber Security, Tech, Data & Analytics Leaders, Enterprise Business Services (EBS), and strategic technology partners to ensure enterprise business capabilities are successfully realized through scalable, resilient, and standards-based ERP & Value Chain platforms.
Responsibilities
• Partner with Enterprise Product Design Engineering to translate approved business capabilities into coordinated platform strategies, engineering realization plans, and modernization roadmaps across the enterprise value chain.
• Partner with Enterprise Architecture to ensure engineering solutions align with enterprise architecture standards, approved technology principles, SAP modernization strategies, and established engineering patterns.
• Collaborate with Operations & Infrastructure to ensure platform readiness, production acceptance, environment strategy, operational transition, and long-term platform support are successfully achieved.
• Partner with Cyber Security to ensure security requirements, remediation priorities, compliance obligations, and enterprise controls are incorporated into platform planning, engineering realization, and modernization activities.
• Drive alignment across Finance, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Quality, Planning, Procurement, Warehouse Management, Research & Development, Enterprise Architecture, Operations, Security, Enterprise Business Services (EBS), and strategic technology partners to proactively resolve cross-platform dependencies, engineering risks, and delivery challenges.
Key Roles & Responsibilities (Continued)
D. Engineering Leadership, Platform Excellence & Organizational Capability (15%)
Build and lead a high-performing platform engineering organization that advances platform ownership, engineering excellence, organizational capability, AI-enabled engineering, and continuous improvement across ELC's ERP & Value Chain platform portfolio.
Responsibilities
• Lead and develop Platform Engineering Directors while fostering a culture of ownership, accountability, innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning across the ERP & Value Chain platform portfolio.
• Champion engineering excellence through standardized engineering practices, reusable engineering assets, automation, AI-enabled engineering capabilities, and continuous modernization across enterprise ERP and Value Chain platforms.
• Develop organizational capability by establishing clear career pathways, succession plans, technical mentoring, and leadership development programs that strengthen engineering capability and prepare future platform leaders.
• Drive adoption of AI-enabled engineering practices and modern software engineering capabilities that improve engineering productivity, platform quality, technical sustainability, and delivery effectiveness while maintaining responsible governance.
• Promote collaboration, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement across Enterprise Platform Engineering while strengthening engineering capability and enabling long-term value chain transformation.
Qualifications
Platform Leadership & Enterprise ERP Expertise
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Business, or a related field.
• 10+ years of progressive leadership experience governing enterprise ERP, Supply Chain, Finance, Manufacturing, Research & Development, or Value Chain technology platforms within complex global organizations.
• Demonstrated executive leadership experience governing large-scale SAP ERP environments supporting global Finance, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Quality, Procurement, Order Management, Warehouse Management, Planning, and Research & Development business capabilities.
• Deep understanding of SAP ECC and the broader SAP application ecosystem supporting enterprise Finance, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Quality, Procurement, Order Management, Warehouse Management, Planning, and Research & Development capabilities. Experience with enterprise planning platforms (e.g., o9) and modern Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) platforms is highly desirable.
• Proven ability to develop long-term platform strategies that balance business priorities, technical sustainability, modernization objectives, engineering capacity, and operational excellence.
• Executive leadership experience governing Enterprise Business Services (EBS), strategic technology partners, and global technology organizations while maintaining accountability for platform outcomes.
Qualifications (Continued)
Platform Delivery, Governance & Optimization
• Demonstrated experience governing enterprise ERP and Value Chain platform portfolios from build through production acceptance while ensuring engineering quality, delivery predictability, platform health, and operational readiness.
• Proven ability to establish engineering governance, platform standards, modernization strategies, release governance, environment strategies, and lifecycle management practices supporting large enterprise platforms.
• Experience driving platform optimization through landscape simplification, environment utilization, technology modernization, engineering operating efficiency, software licensing optimization, data lifecycle management, and technical sustainability.
• Strong understanding of enterprise ERP modernization, SAP platform strategy, Agile delivery methodologies, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), DevSecOps, and modern engineering practices.
• Ability to balance modernization initiatives, delivery commitments, engineering quality, technology risk, platform stability, operational readiness, and long-term business value across a diverse enterprise platform portfolio.
Qualifications (Continued)
Enterprise Partnership & Business Leadership
• Proven ability to build trusted executive partnerships across Enterprise Product Design Engineering, Enterprise Architecture, Operations & Infrastructure, Cyber Security, Tech, Data & Analytics Leaders, Enterprise Business Services (EBS), Procurement, Finance, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Research & Development, and strategic technology partners.
• Strong executive communication, stakeholder management, organizational influence, and collaboration skills with the ability to align diverse technology and business organizations around common platform objectives.
• Demonstrated experience translating enterprise business strategies into platform roadmaps, modernization initiatives, engineering realization plans, and technology investment strategies.
• Proven ability to lead complex enterprise transformation initiatives spanning multiple business functions, technologies, and global operating regions.
Qualifications (Continued)
ERP Modernization, Technology Stewardship & Continuous Improvement
• Demonstrated experience leading large-scale SAP ERP modernization initiatives, enterprise platform transformations, cloud adoption strategies, and business capability modernization programs.
• Strong understanding of SAP ECC, SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), enterprise planning platforms (e.g., o9), and modern Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) platforms supporting complex global manufacturing and Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) organizations.
• Experience governing platform technology investments, engineering tooling, software licensing, technology contracts, vendor relationships, and long-term platform sustainability.
• Proven ability to leverage AI-enabled engineering capabilities, automation, reusable engineering assets, and modern engineering practices to improve engineering productivity, platform quality, and technology maturity.
• Commitment to continuous platform optimization, innovation, engineering excellence, and long-term business value realization.
Qualifications (Continued)
Engineering Leadership & Organizational Development
• Demonstrated success leading and developing high-performing platform engineering leaders across complex enterprise technology organizations.
• Proven ability to build organizational capability through leadership development, mentoring, succession planning, technical coaching, and engineering career progression.
• Ability to lead through strategic vision, platform ownership, organizational influence, engineering accountability, collaboration, and executive leadership.
• Demonstrated commitment to strengthening Enterprise Platform Engineering through engineering excellence, organizational capability, AI-enabled engineering, innovation, and continuous improvement .
Pay Range:
The anticipated base salary range for this position is $177,100.00 to $304,500.00 . 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.
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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 USApplicantAccommodations@Estee.com.
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