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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
What You'll Do:
As a member of the Data Resilience team, you will lead ELC's enterprise disaster recovery program, to include developing policies and managing processes to ensure disaster recovery planning is conducted and exercised for all critical systems. You will ensure IT teams conduct thorough disaster recovery planning and are able to restore systems and recover data following any unplanned disruption. You will work across multiple teams to prepare ELC for disasters of all types and conduct exercises to assess and enhance readiness.
You will be responsible for:
• Developing, implementing, and updating disaster recovery plans, communication protocols, and crisis management tools.
• Assessing and improving the disaster recovery program by evaluating governance models, risks to services, and disaster recovery processes and protocols.
• Creating and maintaining a secure repository for disaster recovery plans, reference materials, and tools to provide decision makers with information needed for crisis response and recovery.
• Developing reporting schedules, communications, formal reports, and informal updates to leadership regarding the status of enterprise disaster recovery planning.
• Assessing and reporting on the company's ability to monitor and manage threats and risks related to system availability, crisis response, recovery, and data restoration.
• Assisting with the management of significant events, to include providing guidance on the operational aspects of crisis management, the mobilization of teams needed to restore services, minimizing business impact, and identifying opportunities to improve response capabilities and processes.• Supporting business impact analyses to assess recovery requirements and develop strategies to mitigate gaps. This includes providing guidance to the business on developing and documenting risks and remediation plans.
• Facilitating reviews following crisis events and disaster recovery exercises to assess response efforts, identify lessons learned, enhance response capabilities and processes, and report findings and recommendations.
• Working across functions and business units to review key business strategies and ensure alignment with disaster recovery planning related to critical business processes, systems, and data.
• Coordinating program audits related to disaster recovery planning.
• Advising business units and IT teams on risk assessments, business impact analyses, and disaster recovery planning strategies.
• Providing guidance on disaster recovery plans and requirements for mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, new technologies and systems, and changes in data storage.
Technical Requirements:
Proven experience in data resilience, crisis management, and business continuity
Proficiency with common risk management tools (GRC, ServiceNow, or similar)
Familiarity with common cyber security and disaster recovery management tools
Experience leading and presenting BC/DR processes, including risk register and metrics / trends
Experience assessing against common security and controls frameworks (FAIR, NIST CSF, NIST 800-52, ISO27001 or equivalent.
Strong written and communication skills to support cross-functional collaboration
Qualifications
As a member of the Data Resilience team, you will lead ELC's enterprise disaster recovery program, to include developing policies and managing processes to ensure disaster recovery planning is conducted and exercised for all critical systems. You will ensure IT teams conduct thorough disaster recovery planning and are able to restore systems and recover data following any unplanned disruption. You will work across multiple teams to prepare ELC for disasters of all types and conduct exercises to assess and enhance readiness.

• • You have Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery (BC/DR) Domain Experience
  • You have at least 3-5 years of work experience
  • Required Education
  • You have an undergraduate degree in technology or equivalent professional experience
  • Certifications (preferred, not required)
  • • Certified Business Continuity Professional (CBCP)
    • Certificate of the Business Continuity Institute (CBCI)
    • Certified Disaster Recovery Engineer
    • EC-Council Disaster Recovery Professional
    • Certified Disaster Recovery Engineer
    • Certified Functional Continuity Professional (CFCP)
    • Master Business Continuity Professional (MBCP)
  • Technical Requirements
  • Proven experience in data resilience, crisis management, and business continuity
  • Proficiency with common risk management tools (GRC, ServiceNow, or similar)
  • Familiarity with common cyber security and disaster recovery management tools
  • Experience leading and presenting BC/DR processes, including risk register and metrics / trends
  • Experience assessing against common security and controls frameworks (FAIR, NIST CSF, NIST 800-52, ISO27001 or equivalent)
  • Strong written and communication skills to support cross-functional collaboration

Pay Range:
The anticipated base salary range for this position is $102,000.00 to $167,550.00. 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 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 USApplicantAccommodations@Estee.com.
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.