Category Leadership Management Specialist

6 days ago


New York, New York, United States The Estee Lauder Companies Inc. Full time
Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Category Leadership Management Specialist to join our team at The Estee Lauder Companies Inc. This role will be responsible for leading the end-to-end project management of market and category analysis, including scoping of analysis, establishing hypotheses with senior leadership and cross-functional teams, and delivering pertinent and actionable insights to Brands and Functions.

Key Responsibilities
  • Develop strategic, analytical, and financial frameworks to conduct category analyses and develop category foresight actioned via a clear where to play / how to win set of choices that drive category market share gains.
  • Enable enterprise to play its portfolio against big, fast growing and new trends by enabling Brands to make strategic bets by creating, reacting to and predicting opportunities through a deeper understanding of category insights, internal and external technology assets, macroeconomic forces and global and local Beauty trends.
  • Assess short and long term gaps vs. strategic plans, pipelines and execution (Innovation, Marketing and Supply Chain sufficiency) to drive product innovation and commercial activation.
  • Support the development of 3-year market projections for category and the brand ambitions across the category.
  • Track and govern the deployment and execution of key strategic initiatives by designing metrics and KPIs and drive actionable analytics against scorecard and company goal.
  • Play a key role in the category strategy development process, supporting senior management in enabling Brands, Regions and Functions to achieve objectives.
  • Present to c-suite leadership on Brand actions.
  • Support functional strategy development for all of R&D, Packaging, Product Development and Corporate Innovation. Write the 3-year strategy together with EVP, R&D, and Packaging & PD.
  • Support Brand Innovation strategy for the enterprise, coordinating across Functions, Brands and Regions.
  • Design financial models and reverse engineer opportunity size to gain market share and long-term sustainable growth.
  • Define creative, out-of-the-box thinking to analytically identify white space opportunities across benefits and formulate an approach to address the identified opportunity.
  • Track and govern the deployment and execution of key strategic initiatives by designing metrics and KPIs and drive actionable analytics against scorecard and company goals.
Requirements
  • **Minimum Education level:** BS/BA required - MBA highly desirable.
  • **Minimum Years of Experience:** 3-5 years.
  • **Required Language Proficiency:** Mandarin Preferred.
Desired Skills
  • Highly developed strategic thinking, influencing skills, flexibility, strong work ethic, excellent oral and written communication.
  • Ability to work independently and proactively with all levels of the organization.
  • Ability to handle a heavy workload with competing priorities.
  • Create and deliver succinct Power Point presentations to communicate insights and strategy concisely to stakeholders.
  • Develop and build excel models to build financial projection backed by key assumptions.
  • Detail oriented with strong organizational skills with the ability to shift focus, multi-task, and prioritize in a rapidly changing environment.
  • Ability to work cross-functions / Regions / Brands and effectively interact with all ELC departments.
  • Strong connections with key points of contact and / or capable of creating / developing cross ELC relationships.


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