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About the Role

The Associate Fellow, Platform, Scale & Innovation Packaging is a senior technical leader responsible for identifying, developing, connecting, and scaling packaging technologies and capabilities that enable innovation across The Estée Lauder Companies. This role connects consumer desire, emerging trends, technical capability, and enterprise scale to create packaging solutions that can be leveraged broadly across ELC, serving as a technical authority and innovation catalyst.

Responsibilities

Partner closely with R&I and the Packaging Inspiration Lab to identify emerging consumer needs and translate them into innovative product-and-package systems.
Explore packaging not as an isolated component, but as part of the complete product + formula + delivery system + consumer experience.
Connect consumer insights, emerging trends, competitive activity, materials, formats, dispensing technologies, application experiences, and product science to inspire new packaging solutions.
Collaborate with R&I, Product Development, Design, Packaging Development, Marketing, Consumer Insights, and other partners to translate early-stage ideas into technically viable concepts.
Identify emerging technologies and packaging experiences that may create future opportunities across prestige beauty categories.
Assist in building a forward-looking pipeline of packaging concepts, technologies, and systems that can support future brand innovation.
Bring external inspiration into ELC while connecting it to internal technical capabilities and business opportunities.
Develop and advance packaging technology engines that create reusable technical foundations for future product launches.
Identify opportunities to create shared packaging solutions across brands, while allowing appropriate differentiation in design, decoration, materials, consumer experience, and brand expression.
Evolve ELC menu and stock packaging solutions that provide brands with technically proven, commercially viable options for accelerated development.
Establish scalable packaging architectures that can support multiple brands, categories, product forms, fill volumes, markets, or manufacturing locations.
Identify opportunities to leverage common components, technologies, tooling strategies, manufacturing processes, and engineering knowledge across the enterprise.
Create technical frameworks that allow Packaging Development teams to start from proven solutions rather than repeatedly developing similar technologies from the ground up.
Balance platform scale with consumer experience, aesthetics, sustainability, technical performance, manufacturability, cost, and brand equity.
Partner with Brand Packaging teams to transition platform technologies into brand-specific applications and commercial programs.
Maintain a pipeline of scalable technologies at varying levels of technical readiness to support both immediate and future business needs.
Support Packaging Development teams in solving complex technical and engineering challenges.
Provide technical consultation on packaging architecture, materials, dispensing systems, component design, manufacturing technologies, assembly, decoration, testing, and commercialization.
Lead or support advanced technical investigations where traditional development approaches have not produced an effective solution.
Apply engineering principles, modeling, simulation, prototyping, testing, and experimentation to accelerate technical learning and decision-making.
Identify opportunities to simplify packaging systems while improving robustness, consumer experience, manufacturability, sustainability, cost, and speed.
Partner with Package Testing, Material Science, Quality, Manufacturing, R&I, suppliers, and other technical experts to develop and validate solutions.
Develop technical knowledge, methodologies, design principles, and engineering guidance that can be leveraged by Packaging Development teams across ELC.
Serve as a technical advisor and thought partner for high-complexity or high-value packaging initiatives.
Partner with Global Supplier Management and key suppliers to develop a robust pipeline of supplier-led packaging innovation.
Establish strong technical relationships with strategic suppliers, converters, equipment manufacturers, material innovators, startups, and technology partners.
Maintain visibility to supplier technology roadmaps, new manufacturing capabilities, emerging materials, dispensing technologies, decoration processes, and packaging formats.
Challenge suppliers to bring forward technologies and capabilities aligned with ELC consumer, category, sustainability, and business priorities.
Evaluate supplier innovations for technical readiness, differentiation, scalability, intellectual property considerations, manufacturing feasibility, and potential cross-brand application.
Connect promising supplier innovations with appropriate ELC brands, R&I teams, Packaging Development teams, and business opportunities.
Where appropriate, collaborate with suppliers to further develop or customize technologies to create differentiated or proprietary ELC capabilities.
In partnership with GSM, create mechanisms for sharing supplier innovation across the Packaging Development organization so opportunities are visible beyond individual brand teams.
Maintain a strong understanding of current and emerging technical capabilities within the Melville Technical Center, including equipment, laboratories, pilot capabilities, prototyping, testing, engineering expertise, and ongoing technical initiatives.
Develop strong connectivity with ELC manufacturing sites to understand existing and emerging filling, assembly, decoration, automation, processing, inspection, and packaging capabilities.
Identify opportunities to connect underutilized or emerging internal capabilities with brand and category needs.
Bring manufacturing knowledge upstream into innovation development so concepts are designed with scale and commercialization in mind.
Connect technical experts across sites and functions when capabilities developed in one area could solve challenges elsewhere.
Serve as a connector across Packaging Development, R&I, Engineering, Technical Centers, and Manufacturing to ensure valuable technical knowledge and capabilities are broadly leveraged.
Apply AI-enabled tools to packaging simulations, engineering analysis, concept generation, technical research, benchmarking, and problem-solving.
Explore AI-supported modeling and simulation to evaluate packaging concepts and engineering scenarios earlier in the development process.
Utilize AI to accelerate the evaluation of design alternatives, materials, technical architectures, manufacturing approaches, and potential failure modes.
Apply AI to technical documentation, specification analysis, data interpretation, knowledge retrieval, competitive analysis, supplier information, and engineering workflows.
Establish responsible methods for applying AI while ensuring engineering judgment, technical validation, confidentiality, and data integrity remain central to decision-making.
Share successful AI use cases, prompts, workflows, methodologies, and lessons learned across Packaging Development.
Continually evaluate emerging AI technologies for their potential application to packaging engineering and innovation.
Scout emerging packaging materials, dispensing technologies, manufacturing processes, automation, digital technologies, smart packaging, decoration techniques, refill systems, and other relevant innovations.
Monitor adjacent industries for technologies that could be adapted to beauty packaging.
Assess technologies based on consumer relevance, technical feasibility, scalability, sustainability, cost, intellectual property, manufacturing readiness, and strategic value to ELC.
Build prototypes, demonstrations, proof-of-concepts, or technical learning programs where appropriate to advance promising technologies.
Create visibility to emerging capabilities so Brand Packaging teams can incorporate them into future innovation pipelines.
Build trusted partnerships across Packaging Development, R&I, Packaging Inspiration Lab, Design, Product Development, Marketing, Consumer Insights, Manufacturing, Engineering, Quality, Material Science, Package Testing, Sustainability, GSM, and suppliers.
Translate complex technical concepts into clear opportunities, risks, and recommendations for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Connect teams that may be solving similar problems independently and facilitate shared solutions.
Influence technical and business decisions by balancing consumer desirability, technical feasibility, scalability, sustainability, investment, cost, and speed to market.
Facilitate technical workshops, innovation sessions, supplier engagements, and cross-functional problem-solving.
Act as a technical mentor and knowledge resource for Packaging Development professionals across the organization.
Encourage experimentation, technical curiosity, knowledge sharing, and thoughtful risk-taking.

Requirements

Minimum BS degree in Packaging Science or Engineering.
7+ years' experience in cosmetic package development.
Concentrated experience in prestige beauty industry with proven development experience in color, fragrance, skin care categories and Promotional areas.
Proficiency in computer systems including Unique Package Definition Systems, MS Excel, Word, Outlook and Timeline management systems.

Skills

Technical exploration and development
Packaging technology and platform recommendations
Technical feasibility assessments
Engineering methodologies and technical recommendations
Technology scouting and evaluation
Technical knowledge development and sharing
AI-enabled packaging engineering use cases
Identification of opportunities for shared and scalable packaging solutions
Technical connectivity across suppliers, Technical Centers, Manufacturing, R&I, and Packaging Development
Packaging innovation strategy
R&I packaging opportunities
Category technology roadmaps
Supplier innovation pipelines
Manufacturing capability investments
Menu and stock packaging strategy
Shared cross-brand packaging platforms
Engineering standards and methodologies
Sustainability technology strategy
AI and digital engineering capability
Commercialization approaches for emerging technologies
Significant technology investments
Enterprise-level manufacturing or equipment investments
Major intellectual property considerations
Significant technical or commercialization risks
Strategic supplier capability concerns
Technologies requiring substantial enterprise resources or cross-functional sponsorship

Experience Level

7+ years

Education Level

BS degree in Packaging Science or Engineering

About the Company

The Estée Lauder Companies