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About the Role

The Packaging Inspiration Lab (PIL) Analyst role is an entry-level position within The Estée Lauder Companies’ Packaging organization, focused on developing future packaging professionals through practical experience, technical training, and cross-functional teamwork. The Analyst will support the discovery, development, and acceleration of packaging innovation by integrating consumer insights, emerging trends, supplier capabilities, and category strategies. This role operates at the intersection of consumer needs, design, technology, and business, translating emerging opportunities into actionable packaging solutions and visual concepts for ELC's brands.

Responsibilities

Demonstrate curiosity, analytical thinking, and a passion for continuous learning.
Approach work with a positive, adaptable, and solutions-oriented mindset.
Manage assignments independently while adapting to shifting priorities and timelines.
Exercise sound judgment by recognizing when to seek guidance or escalate strategic decisions.
Take ownership of personal development by actively seeking feedback, building new capabilities, and applying learnings to increasingly complex assignments.
Connect consumer insights, emerging technologies, supplier capabilities, and category strategies to identify packaging innovation opportunities.
Translate ideas into actionable packaging solutions that support business priorities and category needs.
Connect ideas across consumer insights, design, technology, and business.
Support the development of scalable innovation frameworks that strengthen category strategies, accelerate early-stage innovation, and drive long-term business growth.
Develop an understanding of ELC brands, consumers, category strategies, and distinctive brand identities.
Understand how packaging innovation can strengthen brand expression, consumer experience, and commercial value across different brands and categories.
Translate brand identity, design language, consumer needs, and innovation opportunities into compelling visual packaging expressions that demonstrate how concepts could come to life across different brands and categories.
Identify relevant research and evaluate information from multiple sources.
Translate findings into innovation briefs, presentations, and storytelling materials.
Research and monitor emerging consumer, packaging, retail, technology, sustainability, and beauty trends.
Support innovation initiatives including cross-functional workshops and other collaborative innovation activities.
Develop an understanding of how innovation opportunities balance consumer desirability, creative intent, technical feasibility, and business relevance.
Coordinate cross-functional innovation activities, including workshops, information-sharing forums, and collaborative working sessions.
Plan and execute innovation activities by coordinating materials, samples, stakeholders, and key deliverables.
Capture outcomes, document next steps, and ensure effective follow-through.
Support strategic initiatives and special projects as business needs evolve.
Take ownership of assigned workstreams from initial brief through delivery, maintaining clear priorities, timelines, follow-through, and communication with key stakeholders.
Collaborate with Packaging, Consumer Intelligence, R&I, Engineering, suppliers, and other cross-functional partners.
Facilitate collaboration as part of innovation initiatives, workshops, and working sessions.
Develop clear, visually engaging, and actionable communications for a variety of audiences.
Translate complex information into innovation briefs, presentations, and strategic recommendations.
Communicate packaging opportunities effectively to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Build credibility as a collaborative business partner through strong attention to detail, responsiveness, and clear communication.
Contribute wherever needed to support evolving team and business priorities.
Maintain organized, accessible, and engaging innovation resources that enable collaboration across the organization.
Identify opportunities to improve processes and enhance the user experience.
Build strong relationships and work collaboratively across diverse teams.
Seek coaching and feedback, share knowledge openly, and contribute to a collaborative team environment.
Demonstrate accountability for personal development while building behaviors and capabilities that support future growth across the broader Packaging organization.
Use AI-enabled research and creative tools to accelerate trend research, synthesize information, explore ideas, and support innovation storytelling.
Leverage digital tools to organize and maintain inspiration assets, supplier materials, research, and knowledge repositories.
Explore emerging digital technologies and new ways of working that improve the speed, quality, and effectiveness of PIL activities.
Use AI and digital tools responsibly by applying critical thinking and validating outputs for accuracy, relevance, and business context.
Develop foundational knowledge of packaging materials, manufacturing processes, decoration technologies, package architectures, dispensing systems, and commercialization considerations.
Apply and further develop working knowledge of CAD, 3D visualization, and rendering tools to translate early-stage packaging innovations into technically credible, brand-relevant concepts.
Apply technical understanding when evaluating and communicating emerging packaging concepts, technologies, supplier capabilities, and innovation opportunities.
Continuously build technical Packaging knowledge through hands-on learning, collaboration, and industry exposure.

Requirements

Minimum BS degree in Packaging Science, Packaging Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Design, Product Design, Materials Engineering, or a related technical/design discipline.
0-1 years experience in Package Development, Quality Assurance, Manufacturing or Package Testing lab in cosmetics or related industry.
Proficiency in computer systems including Microsoft Suite.
Basic competency in analysis of geometric objects in 2 and 3 dimensions including understanding of clearances, fit and finish of packaging components and subcomponents.
Working knowledge or academic experience with CAD, 3D modeling, rendering, prototyping, packaging materials, manufacturing processes, or product development preferred.
Basic knowledge of materials used in the construction and manufacturing of primary, secondary and tertiary packaging including but not limited to: Injection molding, Extrusion molding, Metal forming, Glass forming, Vacuum forming, Assembly of components, Dispensing systems (Pump, Airless), Folding carton and rigid box design.
Basic knowledge of decorating techniques and materials used on primary, secondary and tertiary packaging.
Basic knowledge of test methods used to validate component/package performance.

Skills

Adaptability
Accountability
Continuous learning
Curiosity
Analytical thinking
Solutions-oriented mindset
Independent work management
Prioritization
Judgment
Seeking guidance
Escalating decisions
Personal development
Seeking feedback
Building capabilities
Applying learnings
Consumer insights
Emerging technologies
Supplier capabilities
Category strategies
Actionable packaging solutions
Business priorities
Category needs
Brand identity
Design language
Consumer needs
Visual packaging expressions
Research
Trend monitoring
Innovation briefs
Presentations
Storytelling
Retail trends
Technology trends
Sustainability trends
Beauty trends
Cross-functional workshops
Collaborative innovation activities
Consumer desirability
Creative intent
Technical feasibility
Business relevance
Project coordination
Information sharing
Working sessions
Planning
Organization
Execution
Capturing outcomes
Documenting next steps
Follow-through
Strategic initiatives
Special projects
Workstream ownership
Stakeholder communication
Cross-functional collaboration
Packaging
Consumer Intelligence
R&I
Engineering
Suppliers
Visual communication
Actionable communications
Complex information translation
Strategic recommendations
Technical audiences
Non-technical audiences
Attention to detail
Responsiveness
Clear communication
Team effectiveness
Evolving team needs
Organized resources
Accessible resources
Engaging resources
Process improvement
User experience enhancement
Relationship building
Knowledge sharing
Collaborative team environment
AI-enabled research tools
Creative tools
Synthesizing information
Exploring ideas
Innovation storytelling
Digital tools
Inspiration assets
Supplier materials
Knowledge repositories
Emerging digital technologies
New ways of working
Critical thinking
Validating outputs
Packaging materials
Manufacturing processes
Decoration technologies
Package architectures
Dispensing systems
Commercialization considerations
CAD
3D visualization
Rendering tools
Prototyping
Product development
Injection molding
Extrusion molding
Metal forming
Glass forming
Vacuum forming
Component assembly
Pump dispensing
Airless dispensing
Folding carton design
Rigid box design
Decorating techniques
Test methods
Component validation
Package performance validation

Location

New York, NY

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Entry-level
0-1 years experience

Education Level

BS degree in Packaging Science, Packaging Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Design, Product Design, Materials Engineering, or a related technical/design discipline.

Salary/Compensations

$66,300.00 - $96,050.00

Benefits

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
Vacation time

About the Company

The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. is a global leader in manufacturing, marketing, and selling quality skin care, makeup, fragrance, and hair care products.
The company stewards luxury and prestige brands worldwide.
Products are sold in approximately 150 countries and territories.
Key brands include: 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.

Equal Opportunity

The Company's policy is 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.
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.