Estee Lauder Employment – Brand Technology Lead

Website Estée Lauder

Job Description:

The Brand Tech Lead at the Estée Lauder Companies plays a critical role in both advising the Brand leadership as well as identifying, prioritizing and delivering technology solutions that support the Brand’s near term and long-term growth strategies. In this role, you will influence the brand strategy via technology subject matter expertise and deliver solutions that drive competitive advantage and growth. In addition, you will act as a matrix manager to domain-related solution delivery team leaders who are staffed globally. This leader plays an important role in contributing to technology talent planning and grooming up and coming talent with commercial and technology experiences.

Job Responsibilities:

  • Drives an Agile mindset and delivery culture.
  • Responsible for the brand IT budget and ensuring there is there is clear visibility to IT value delivered commensurate to technology invested.
  • Responsible for all brand technology plans and investments and sets the technology strategy for the brand in collaboration with the Brand President.
  • Mobilizes teams (Pods) who solution and deliver enabling technologies for the brand and is accountable for the technology teams that delivers innovative, strategic business solutions to the Brand. These solutions must be consistent with both the corporate AND brand strategic objectives and aligned with the IT strategy and architecture. Drives an Agile mindset and delivery culture.
  • Remains well connected with other brands, regions and technology leaders and is continuously informing the brand leadership of new opportunities to leverage technology from across ELC and to bring innovative solutions to the Brand.
  • Responsible for enabling brand specific marketing and consumer insights through technology and driving this capability across the brand teams based at corporate and throughout the brand regional teams. Ensure the strategic agenda is serviced by strong data and analytic services including data science, analytics and ongoing support.
  • Works effectively across the IT organization to ensure brand strategies and enabling technology needs are well understood and incorporated in our IT strategy.

Job Requirements:

  • Member of the Brand leadership team – demonstrates outstanding communication, resiliency, interpersonal skills, ability to influence and provide technology thought leadership to Brand leadership and act as a trusted advisor.
  • Experience developing and implementing retail operation and technology strategies and integrating seamless online and offline retail experiences.
  • Demonstrated thought leadership in consumer relationship management technologies to enable outstanding client relationships and first class service delivery.
  • Expertise in technology design/architecture and implementation.
  • Broad global experience and exposure to markets and cultures throughout the world.
  • High sense of urgency to influence changes and drive outcomes from conception to delivery.
  • Demonstrated thought leadership in direct to consumer technologies such as consumer experience, digital and all aspects of enabling amazing retail experiences through technology.
  • Demonstrated thought leadership in marketing technologies such as campaign planning, effectiveness, and consumer insights to enable an exceptional customer luxury experience.
  • Ability to ensure that all technology choices are in context to enabling the brand strategy and desired outcomes.
  • Excellent business technology leadership skills and demonstrated experience with delivering business outcomes enabled by technology.
  • Hands on experience and demonstrated success in leading web, mobile and social solutions delivery.
  • Excellent financial acumen and demonstrated ability to develop impactful business cases.
  • Effective performance in a highly matrixed and complex organization – demonstrates collaborative relationship building skills with various internal and external stakeholders, strong lateral influencing ability.
  • Using a global perspective, devises plans to enable the Brand’s global growth.
  • Demonstrated thought leadership and expertise in data analytics, especially consumer data analytics. Drive outstanding insights and innovative game-changing opportunities through data science and analytics.

Job Details:

Company: Estée Lauder

Vacancy Type:  Full Time

Job Location: Blaine, MN

Application Deadline: N/A

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