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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
About the Role
The Vice President, Direct GSM - Materials, leads the end-to-end strategy and transformation of Estée Lauder Companies' global direct spend, encompassing packaging, ingredients, devices, and upstream procurement. This role drives the company's enterprise sourcing vision, applying best-in-class practices that strengthen supplier partnerships, elevate innovation, improve agility, and enhance business continuity and sustainability across more than 700 suppliers. Working cross-functionally with Supply Chain (SCLT), R&D, Product Development, and Packaging leadership, the VP advances systemic improvements in new product launch (NPL) processes and materials sourcing to support ELC's $16B+ business growth, ensuring competitive advantage and long-term value creation.
The VP oversees segmentation strategies across all direct categories, expands Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) programs, and builds a world-class procurement organization with strong commercial and market expertise. The role carries full financial accountability for direct materials spend of $1.5B+ distributed globally, delivering targeted cost savings, cash improvements, and Supplier Performance Excellence (SPE) enhancements. The leader also ensures compliant, efficient contract governance and drives operational excellence through the Every Day Great Execution (EDGE) framework, all while serving as an ambassador of ELC's cultural values-reinforcing that how results are achieved is as important as what is delivered.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership & Category Management

• Develop and execute integrated sourcing strategies across all direct spending categories to drive innovation, business continuity, agility, cost improvement, and sustainability.
• Lead global supply base transformation to stay ahead of competition and support ELC's growth and innovation agenda.
• Establish progressive upstream procurement capabilities in partnership with Packaging, R&D, and Product Development.
• Build a world-class procurement organization with deep market expertise and strong industry presence.

Supplier Relationship Management

• Lead and strengthen Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) programs while expanding strategic partnerships with existing and new suppliers.
• Drive segmentation strategies across all direct categories to optimize supplier performance and value delivery.
• Oversee execution excellence through EDGE (Every Day Great Execution) frameworks, metrics, and processes.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner closely with Supply Chain Leadership (SCLT), Packaging, Product Development, and R&D to enable systemic improvements in materials sourcing, speed-to-market, and new product launches.

Financial & Operational Oversight

• Manage $1.5B+ global direct expenditure, including $500M in raw materials and $1B in packaging.
• Delivers targeted cost savings, cash improvement, and SPE (Supplier Performance Excellence) improvements.
• Ensure effective and efficient contract approvals and contract compliance across all direct spending.
• Lead annual strategy and budget planning for the global direct procurement organization.

Risk, Compliance & Governance

• Drive implementation of third-party risk management programs.
• Ensure compliance with GSM processes and governance (SRC, SAST, and other systems).

Leadership & Culture

• Lead and develop a global team of 45+ employees, fostering a high-performance, value-driven culture.
• Serve as an ambassador of the Estée Lauder social contract and cultural values, emphasizing the importance of both how we work and what we deliver.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required
• 15+ years of progressive procurement or supply chain experience, ideally within global, complex industry environments.
• Proven leadership of global procurement and supplier management functions.
• Strong negotiation experience: formal negotiation training preferred. (APICS, CAPS, or similar certifications are beneficial.)
• Demonstrated success leading large-scale sourcing strategies and delivering measurable financial impact
• Ability to influence cross-functional executive partners and drive organizational alignment.
• Deep knowledge of direct materials categories (packaging, raw materials, devices).
• Experience leading transformation, change management, and capability building within procurement.

Pay Range:
The anticipated base salary range for this position is $277,000.00 to $472,000.00. 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, 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.
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