Manager, Industrial Design

Job Description

At Estee Lauder our Vision is to be the global leader in prestige beauty: a well-diversified, brand-building powerhouse of unrivalled creativity and innovation. Want to become part of a team committed to being creativity-driven and quality-obsessed in innovation – this Industrial Design role is that. As part of the global packaging innovation department this role will work with R&D, consumer insights, brand marketing and packaging teams to support corporate strategic initiatives, create innovative packaging concepts and platforms, and identify and develop fast-growing skincare category packaging needs. A considerable part of this role will include working across all brands at the Estee Lauder Companies to create breakthrough innovation and speed to market solutions in all skincare subcategories promoting customer experiences. This will involve leveraging both internal capabilities and external partners, accelerating the biggest opportunities in key markets, adopting new trends quickly – all by using a consumer-centric and benefit-driven approach. The candidate will need a strong background in industrial design, project management, and be continually driven to innovate first-to-market solutions for prestige beauty.
Primary Job:
Bring innovation, creativity and design thinking to the corporate category. Take an active role in the ideation process by providing inspiration through sketches, proof of principle mock ups, high level renderings and prototype models of concepts.
Responsibilities:
• Utilize design skills to capture concepts and ideas through 2D hand sketches and 3D printed models and mock ups
• Seek out trends that directly or indirectly impact skincare and personal care creating net extra opportunities.
• Utilize digital design and engineering skills to create, validate, and analyze 3D files facilitating appearance and working prototype models.
• Identify emerging themes and support product market packaging trends, gaps, and innovative opportunities corporately & brand level
• Identify consumer benefits leading to ideal product models &/or identify technologies & technical approaches which meet project objectives. Defines how the technical choices & levers affect the critical desired consumer benefits & experience.
• Define and develop innovative concepts and product forms supporting category and brand needs
• Be a specialist in category & how it connects with other categories.
• Create innovative packaging concepts and platforms in tandem with packaging brand leads and present and share big ideas across the corporation; brand partners, cross-functional partners, and senior stakeholders
• Develop and drive packaged product innovative business cases with brands for brand adoption and sponsorship
• Lead special corporate projects – supporting strategic initiates
• Collaborate with a diverse range of functional teams both branded and category
• Identify barriers to innovation and provides possible solutions to remove obstacles
• Direct and indirect management of internal teams and external suppliers and resources – every day leader
• Project manage multiple programs at any given time and provide frequent updates to relevant stakeholders
• Fuel upstream innovation by partnering with consumer insight teams and generating new packaging opportunities
• Proactively identify & drives consumer or organizational improvements to step change business growth & agility.
• Ability to adopt & carry out evolving business requirements.
• Converts ideas to practice based on experience & technical mastery.
• Makes timely informed recommendations & decisions when dealing with uncertainty.
• Communicates results both orally & in writing to supervisor, key project members & highest level of management.
• Seeks opportunities to share learnings more broadly.
• Practices abundance mentality - generous in sharing praise & credit.
• Leads technical &/or consumer test method development & implications to find more relevant consumer / technology insights.
• Specialist in established procedures. Identifies opportunities to optimize, develop new procedures.
• Actively & openly shares latest learnings within the team & sub-function in the intent of growing capability
Requirements:
• Minimum BS degree in Packaging, Science, Engineering or Design
• Demonstrated creative thinker with the ability to articulate and execute new ideas successfully
• Strong collaborator with internal and external teams and resources
• Excellent organizational skills and the ability to successfully handle multiple concurrent tasks
• Collaborative and agile team member that can quickly adjust to changing business needs
• Ability to work well with brand leaders, R&D teams and senior stakeholders
• Self-motivated individual and capable of working individually as well as being part of various cross-functional teams
• Creative out-of-the box thinker and developer – for process and packaging operations
• Internal and External Innovative Partner
• Possibility State (over Problem State) – growth mindset
Leadership Competencies:
• Learning agility – navigating brand DNA and specific brand needs, understanding and integrating new technology fits, and desire for continuous improvement in the day to day and packaging innovation
• Drives innovation – uses experience and knowledge of industry to conceptualize, present, and drive innovation onto brand calendar fueling the pipeline
• Strives for excellence in execution – dedicated to delivering both high quality work and high performance output.
• Challenger spirit – challenges the status quo with internal and external customers for better solutions

Qualifications

• BS or MS degree in Package Engineering, Industrial Design, or other related engineering fields
• Experience in the cosmetics or personal care industry preferred
• Must be proficient in Solid Works, Key Shot, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign

Job: Packaging & Package Development - R&D
Primary Location: US-NY-New York
Job Type: Standard
Schedule: Full-time
Shift: 1st (Day) Shift
Job Number: 1922624
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